
Does France have right plan to revive its economy?
The man charged with reviving France's shrinking economy and attracting businesses to invest there is gaining a reputation for doing the opposite.
Judge tosses ex-BP executive's obstruction charge
A federal judge has dismissed a charge that is the backbone of the case against a former BP executive accused of concealing information from Congress ...

Turkey: 2 Brazilians killed in balloon crash
A hot air balloon collided with another balloon mid-air during a sightseeing tour of volcanic rock formations in Turkey and crashed to the ground on ...

Honeybees trained in Croatia to find land mines
Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on a fishing trip nearly a decade ...
Syrian hackers compromise FT blog, Twitter feeds
A clutch of Twitter accounts and a blog maintained by the Financial Times were hacked Friday, the latest in a series of cyberattacks claimed by the ...
Google challenger in Vietnam redirecting queries
A Russian-financed search engine seeking to challenge Google's dominance in Vietnam is redirecting queries for some politically sensitive terms to the ...

Lawmakers accuse Google of dishonesty over taxes
U.K. lawmakers subjected search giant Google to blistering criticism Thursday, accusing the U.S. Internet company of playing games with Britain's tax ...
UK officials: BP not seeking gov't help with spill
British government officials said Thursday that BP has not sought Prime Minister David Cameron's help in reducing compensation claims for its role in ...
EU: China may be dumping mobile network equipment
A senior EU official says China may be illegally dumping and subsidizing the import into Europe of mobile telephone networks and their essential ...
Nokia unveils metallic smartphone, stock tumbles
Nokia Corp. on Tuesday unveiled its first Lumia smartphone with a metal cover, low-light camera features and new social network apps. But the new ...
German court orders changes to Google search hints
Google Inc. must respect requests to remove autocomplete entries from its search bar in Germany if they are defamatory, a German court ruled Tuesday.

2 new viruses could both spark global outbreaks
Two respiratory viruses in different parts of the world have captured the attention of global health officials — a novel coronavirus in the Middle ...
UK retailers relax rules on GM poultry feed
Three major British grocery chains have ended their bans on providing genetically modified feed to chickens. Sainsbury's, the Co-operative Group and ...

Project to track megacities' carbon footprints
Every time Los Angeles exhales, odd-looking gadgets in the mountains above the city trace the invisible puffs of carbon dioxide, methane and other ...

Project aims to track big city carbon footprints
Every time Los Angeles exhales, odd-looking gadgets anchored in the mountains above the city trace the invisible puffs of carbon dioxide, methane and ...

Feds in NYC: Hackers stole $45M in ATM card breach
A worldwide gang of criminals stole $45 million in a matter of hours by hacking their way into a database of prepaid debit cards and then draining ...
Dutch gov't website attacked; suspect extradited
The Dutch government said Wednesday its main website is being hacked, and also confirmed that a man suspected of participating in another major ...

Europeans had common ancestors 1,000 years ago
Europeans appear to be more closely related than previously thought. Scientists who compared DNA samples from people in different parts of the ...

Solar plane lands in Ariz., 1st leg of major trip
A solar-powered airplane landed in Phoenix early Saturday morning after flight from California that included several hours in the air after sundown.
Brooks's ex-bodyguard charged in UK hacking probe
A man who provided protection for the former chief executive of News International has been charged in relation to Britain's wide-ranging ...

UN report wants moratorium on killer robots
Killer robots that can attack targets without any human input "should not have the power of life and death over human beings," a new draft U.N.

Police, politicians push surveillance after Boston
Police and politicians across the U.S. are pointing to the surveillance video that was used to help identify the Boston Marathon bombing suspects as ...
Dutch ponder giving police the right to hack
The Dutch government has unveiled the draft of a law that would give police investigating online crimes the right to hack into computers in the ...
UN says 2012 was 9th-hottest year since 1850
The World Meteorological Organization says last year was the ninth-warmest since record-keeping began in 1850, despite the cooling effect of the ...