BEIJING (AP) - Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, who was allowed to travel to the U.S. after escaping from house arrest, said Monday that New York University is forcing him and his family to leave at the end of this month because of pressure from th... [Full Article]
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Surkov was forced to quit in a power struggle between the Kremlin and the government on Wednesday, dealing a blow to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. The Kremlin said in a statement that Presi... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - Santander has been told by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to contact more than 270,000 borrowers after raising interest rates on mortgages in 2008 without being clear. The FCA, launched this month with a pledge to protect co... [Full Article]
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard delivered a historic national apology in Parliament on Thursday to the thousands of unwed mothers who were forced by government policies to give up their babies for adoption over seve... [Full Article]
Working at Google (GOOG) has its benefits - for one thing, the company's reputation as an innovator is nearly unmatched - however things aren't always as simple as they look. After making a joke on Twitter about Microsoft and Nokia's Windows Phone pa... [Full Article]
The bravado sounded familiar. Like the leaders of other countries swept away by Arab Spring uprisings, Syrian President Bashar Assad vowed to never be forced into exile and to die in his homeland. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
Samsung's (005930) Galaxy Tab may be 'not as cool' as the iPad, but it's also a winner in a UK court of law. Per BBC News, an appeals court in the United Kingdom has shot down Apple's (AAPL) appeal to overturn an earlier ruling that Samsung's Galaxy ... [Full Article]
Schools and businesses are closed and transportation has been disrupted across Bangladesh as hard-line Islamic groups protesting a film that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad enforce a general strike. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - State-backed Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is to press ahead with the forced sale of its Direct Line insurance division in what could be the biggest listing on the London Stock Exchange for more than a year. RBS, which is majority-o... [Full Article]
It started out as a small story: Acer (2353) had planned to release a smartphone in China based on the Alibaba Group's mobile operating system before canceling it at the last minute. Sounds fairly innocuous, right? Well, not so fast. Reuters reports ... [Full Article]
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