LONDON (Reuters) – China and other emerging nations such as Brazil and India are becoming leaders in science to rival traditional “scientific superpowers” like the United States, Europe and Japan, a top British academy said on Monday.
CAYENNE, French Guiana (Reuters) – An Ariane rocket launch carrying two satellites was aborted because of a technical hitch at the scheduled moment of liftoff in French Guiana on Wednesday, space officials said.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks ended a solid quarter with the barest of moves on Thursday, as investors looked ahead to Friday’s U.S. jobs report to provide a catalyst to push indexes to new highs for the year.
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan will take control of Tokyo Electric Power Co , the operator of a stricken nuclear plant, in the face of mounting public concerns over the crisis and a huge potential compensation bill, a local newspaper reported on Friday.
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former Berkshire Hathaway executive David Sokol’s trading in Lubrizol shares as he pitched the company to Warren Buffett is a blurring of personal and professional profit-seeking that could attract a hard look from regulators.
GENEVA (Reuters) – Planemaker Boeing received at least .3 billion of illegal U.S. subsidies, the World Trade Organization said on Thursday in a dispute that shows no signs of an end to years of inconclusive wrangling.
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ally Financial has filed to offer shares to the public in a first step for the U.S. government to sell down its majority stake in the former General Motors credit arm.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Plans for nuclear power investment in the United States will be sidelined but not derailed by the problems Japan is having with the Fukushima nuclear plant, experts said in a panel discussion on Thursday.
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland tried to draw a line under its financial crisis on Thursday by saying its banks need a further 24 billion euros (.11 billion) to withstand further economic shocks.
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese manufacturers’ business sentiment improved slightly in the three months to March, the Bank of Japan’s closely watched tankan survey showed, but analysts anticipate a downturn in confidence this quarter following last month’s devastating earthquake and tsunami and a subsequent nuclear safety crisis.
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