The United States is unprepared for a major hostile attack against vital computer networks, government and industry officials said on Thursday after participating in a two-day "cyberwar" simulation. The game involved 230
A group of Japanese lawyers and professors asked on Friday that Google Inc stop providing detailed street-level images of Japanese cities on the Internet, saying they violated privacy rights. Google's Street View
The real number of unemployed in China is much more severe than statistics show after 670,000 small firms closed this year under pressure from the global financial crisis, an adviser to China's
Zimbabwe's central bank has introduced a 10 billion Zimbabwe dollar banknote, worth $20 on the black market, to try to ease desperate cash shortages, state-run media said on Friday. Prices are doubling
The dollar looked set on Friday for its biggest weekly decline since 1985 and world stocks fell as weak oil prices and concerns about the U.S. economy worried investors in the last
European stocks fell in morning trade on Friday as sinking oil prices were driving down heavyweight energy shares, while mining stocks came under pressure from profit worries. At 0928 GMT, the pan-European
The dollar and sterling fell sharply on Thursday, boosting the euro broadly as this week's aggressive U.S. rate cuts prompted speculation for deep rate cuts in Britain, while oil's tumble weighed on
The U.S. dollar hit 2-1/2-month lows against the euro on Thursday, with investors deterred by the world's lowest interest rates, while oil prices remained near 4-year lows below $40 a barrel despite
European shares dipped in choppy early trade on Thursday as oil stayed near the $40-a-barrel mark, hurting energy shares and pushing investors to seek the relative safety of drugmakers. By 0942 GMT,
Stock futures for the Dow Jones industrial average are up 0.6 percent and for the S&P 500 up 0.3 percent; Nasdaq 100 futures indicated down 1 percent. Highlights: * On the company
