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09 December 2009 11:07 AM | Tagged: china moves indict dissident subversion
BEIJING - Police have finally presented a case against prominent dissident Liu Xiaobo, who has been jailed for a year without charge after helping produce a high-profile manifesto calling for sweeping democratic reforms in China, a lawyer said Wedne

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08 December 2009 11:37 PM | Tagged: secureworks moves europe dns buy pc world
SecureWorks has acquired DNS Limited, a U.K.-based provider of security services. The acquisition, announced Tuesday, gives the Atlanta-based SecureWorks a foothold in Europe. DNS runs an operations center in Edinburgh and has offices in London. Sec

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08 December 2009 2:07 AM | Tagged: us moves curb emissions aids un climate talks
WASHINGTON/COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Washington took a step on Monday toward curbing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, aiding the first day of the biggest climate talks in history where 190 nations are seeking a deal to curb global warming. The U.S. Envir

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04 December 2009 8:17 AM | Tagged: cuba blasts black leaders charges racism
HAVANA - Cuba hit back Thursday at 60 prominent U.S. black leaders who challenged its race record, with island writers, artists and official journalists calling the criticism an attack on their country's national identity. The five-page signed state

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03 December 2009 1:57 AM | Tagged: health debate senate moves gridlock
WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate debate on a sweeping healthcare overhaul stumbled toward gridlock on Wednesday, with frustrated Democrats considering new procedural moves after Republicans blocked votes on the first amendments.On the third day of a div

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03 December 2009 1:47 AM | Tagged: financial overhaul clears hurdle moves house
WASHINGTON — The broadest revamp of financial regulation in seven decades cleared a key congressional committee Wednesday and will move next week to debate on the floor of the House of Representatives .On a 31-27 party-line vote, the House Fin

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01 December 2009 2:47 PM | Tagged: hurricane season ends barely whimper
SAVANNAH, Ga. - The Atlantic hurricane season ended Monday with barely a whimper: Not a single hurricane came ashore in the United States. Since June, when the season began, just nine named storms developed. Only three of them became hurricanes, and

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01 December 2009 10:27 AM | Tagged: monetary policy moves send mixed message
08:30 GMT: A choppy session in Asia was exemplified by the pushmi-pullyu nature of current global monetary policy. The yen and Japanese bond yields dropped sharply, while the Nikkei rallied on news that the Bank of Japan was holding an emergency mee