2012-11-28 07:43:49
A group of retailers on Tuesday appealed a court order preliminarily approving a $7.2 billion settlement between Visa Inc, Mastercard Inc and merchants over credit card fees, saying it violated their rights by preventing them from opting out of the pact.
2012-11-28 07:38:05
Are juicier, sweeter, more disease-resistant watermelons on the way? An international consortium of more than 60 scientists from the United States, China, and Europe has published the genome sequence of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus)
2012-11-28 07:33:32
Libya is still in the race to save France's Petit-Couronne refinery from liquidation, trade unions said late on Tuesday, as the embattled workers press the French government to help bidders or requisition the plant.
2012-11-28 07:27:05
Few drug companies have robust measures to ensure outsourced clinical trials in developing countries are safe and ethical, an independent report says.
2012-11-28 07:19:31
Federal regulators investigating Google for a range of accusations of antitrust violations took a stand this week on how to handle a type of patent similar to ones in the Google case, but also exposed a rift between regulators on how to proceed.
2012-11-28 06:24:46
Tens of thousands of Egyptians rallied on Tuesday against President Mohamed Mursi in one of the biggest outpourings of protest since Hosni Mubarak's overthrow, accusing the Islamist leader of seeking to impose a new era of autocracy.
2012-11-28 06:23:00
Syrian war planes attacked towns in the country's north and east and killed at least five civilians in a strike on an olive oil press as fighting raged in the capital Damascus on Tuesday, opposition activists said.
2012-11-28 05:58:45
The question of how life began on a molecular level has been a longstanding problem in science. However, recent mathematical research sheds light on a possible mechanism by which life may have gotten a foothold in the chemical soup that existed on the early Earth.
2012-11-27 06:22:32
Rollout to front-office staff follows pilot trial in 2011 by senior staff as tablet shows security benefits
2012-11-27 06:21:48
France's opposition was plunged into an unprecedented crisis on Monday as the
2012-11-27 06:21:07
European governments and the IMF sought to bury months of feuding over Greek
2012-11-26 06:09:30
Flu season has come early this year in parts of the northern hemisphere, and many people are scrambling
2012-11-26 06:08:39
COMPUTER chips that mimic the human brain are outstripping conventional chips in crucial ways
2012-11-26 06:08:01
Survivors have described how a fire tore through a multi-storey garment factory
2012-11-26 06:06:57
Britain's economy is not strong enough to cope with further austerity, the
2012-11-25 05:52:42
On the eve of a ballot that would dissolve his institution, Charles Emerson fell silent when
2012-11-25 05:51:56
The giant orange magnets were built decades ago to confine hydrogen nuclei in
2012-11-25 05:50:29
Nestled in a steep fjord beneath three kilometres of Antarctic ice, the lost world of Lake Ellsworth
2012-11-25 05:49:40
Absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence. Thatأ¢â‚¬â„¢s what theoretical physicist
2012-11-24 06:44:56
European leaders face a grinding round of negotiations over the next three
2012-11-24 06:42:15
Net Applications data shows Windows 8 use at just 1%, compared to rapid takeoff which saw Windows 7 over 3.6% within