PARIS (AP) - The Paris Air Show, which opens for business on Monday Jun. 17, brings hundreds of aircraft to the skies around the French capital, the usual tense competition between aircraft manufacturers Boeing and Airbus, and a slew of innovations l... [Full Article]
NEW YORK - An extremely humanlike robot made a public appearance today (June 15) here at the Global Futures 2045 International Congress, a futuristic conference focused on the technological singularity. (Source: LiveScience.com)... [Full Article]
PARIS (AP) - The Airbus A350's maiden flight ended with a safe landing on Friday, setting the stage for intensifying competition with U.S. rival Boeing in the long-haul wide-body aircraft market. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's audit watchdog has launched a review of Deloitte's work at bailed-out Bankia in the run-up to its flotation in 2011, opening yet another investigation into what went wrong at the bank. Hundreds of thousands of ord... [Full Article]
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's foreign minister on Wednesday sharply criticized a draft resolution on Syria to be considered by the United Nations' top human rights body, saying the move would hamper peace efforts. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
GENEVA (AP) - The U.S., Turkey and Qatar persuaded the U.N.'s top human rights body to hold another urgent debate on the civil war in Syria, the first such session in more than a year, as diplomats pushed Monday for more international pressure t... [Full Article]
West Hollywood, Calif. (AP) - Colombian superstar Shakira is learning how to balance her demanding work schedule with being a new mom one day at a time. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - A coffin bearing the body of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was placed in a chapel in the parliament before her funeral on Wednesday as a debate about the ceremony's scale and guest list deepened. Dra... [Full Article]
By Rodrigo Garrido ISLA NEGRA, Chile (Reuters) - The body of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda, dead nearly four decades, was exhumed on Monday after his former driver said the poet was poisoned under Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. Neruda, f... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - The outgoing chairman of Britain's financial watchdog and one-time candidate to head the Bank of England (BoE) is expected to take up a post at a think tank founded by billionaire investor George Soros. Britain's Sunday T... [Full Article]