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Wheat imports seen as sign of reversal in India's food security "In 1981, the growth rate of agricultural output was three-four per...

Worker productivity rose at a revised 1.6% annual rate in the second quarter, up from an initially reported increase of 1.1%, the Labor Depa...

IMF warns of ‘severe global slowdown’ The IMF warns slower growth could be triggered by a sharp US housing market slowdown or by surging inf...

Pakistan signs peace deal with pro-Taliban militants The Pakistani government and pro-Taliban militants announced that they signed a peace a...

IRS sends collection agencies calling for back taxes Beginning this week, thousands of Americans who owe taxes to the federal government wil...

The confidence of American consumers strengthened in the latest week, possibly due to lower gasoline prices, ABC News and The Washington Pos...

Fears of 'extreme' TB strain Among the areas found to have been affected by extreme drug-resistant TB are Latvia and South Africa. S...

Nightmare Mortgages Now the signs of excess are crystal clear. Up to 80% of all option ARM borrowers make only the minimum payment each mont...

Can't Rule Out China Hard Landing: Bernanke "Although the banking sector is burdened with an enormous and probably growing stock of...

Bernanke said the boom in US productivity that began a decade ago is likely to continue. The International Monetary Fund is set to increase...

U.S. Personal consumption expenditures rose 0.1% in July, less than expected. YoY it is up 2.4%. U.S. personal incomes rose 0.5% in July, ...

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Nations scour for wheat as drought shrivels supply World wheat stocks are expected to decline to 117 million tonnes this year from 135 mill...

The Department of Commerce said that real GDP increased 2.9% in the second quarter, up from the previous estimate of 2.5%. YoY real GDP is u...

The Five Morons Revisited Now I get it. When Fox News’ Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilley assured us that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass de...

It's Cheaper to Go Dutch The Dutch are, no argument, the world's experts. Which raises a question as U.S. politicians and bureaucrat...

U.S. Consumer confidence index dropped from 107.0 to 99.6 in August, the lowest in nine months. The Federal Reserve is not "behind the ...

Selective Prosecution of War Crimes Saddam Hussein's attorneys do not deny that innocents were killed in the gassing of Kurdish villag...

China will invest some $5 bln in energy projects in Venezuela by 2012. The Indian government has allowed import of an additional 2 million ...

Experts warn U.S. is coming apart at the seams A pipeline shuts down in Alaska. Equipment failures disrupt air travel in Los Angeles. Electr...

YoY consumer prices in Tokyo were up 0.9% in August. In Japan overall prices were up 0.3% YoY. Less than expected. Statistics Canada estim...

Freedom in a Cage In his most recent news conference Mr. Bush said: "if we ever give up the desire to help people who live in freedom, ...

Israel may 'go it alone' against Iran He said there was a need to understand that "when push comes to shove," Israel would...

New home sales fell 4.3% in July, the Commerce Department said Thursday. For 2006, new home sales were down 14% YoY. First-time U.S. jobles...

Existing- home sales dropped 4.1 percent in July from the previous month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 6.33 million units, the Nat...

US interventions have boosted Iran, says report The US-led "war on terror" has bolstered Iran's power and influence in the Mi...

DNA database can flag suspects through relatives "It's a major privacy intrusion in the life of families," says Tania Simoncel...

Bush's notes I took a few minutes with Photoshop, and now here are the same notes, rotated and made a little clearer, as if we're l...

Bundesbank rules out gold sales to fill budget gaps "Such one-off measures are never a good idea," the Bundesbank chief said. ...

More rate increases could still be needed to cut inflation , Chicago Federal Reserve President Michael Moskow said. French Q2 GDP rose 1.1...

Drought, water worries cloud skies for US farmers The region under the greatest stress is the Great Plains, an area from North Dakota to Tex...

China to spend US$125 billion to improve water facilities, combat pollution Water companies from France, England, and Germany already have i...

Crude oil could hit $300 a barrel "The industry cut too many corners when prices were low. For 25 years, there was not a proper mainten...

. Can taxation curb obesity? "When two-thirds of the population of countries like Australia or the US are obese or overweight, you can...

The dollar hit a fresh two-month low against the Euro on Monday as investors shunned the greenback amid signs the U.S. economy is slowing. ...

The timing is political Unlike the herd of security experts, I have had the highest security clearance; I have done a huge amount of profess...

Lieberman calls for Rumsfeld to quit

The Arctic and Future Energy Resources The Northwest Passage connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by way of waters around the Arctic Arc...

Scientists flock to test 'free energy' discovery McCarthy claims it provides five times the amount of energy a mobile phone battery ...

Mass murder in the skies: was the plot feasible? Now we have news of the recent, supposedly real-world, terrorist plot to destroy commercial...

Despatches: The real threat we face is Blair John Pilger A senior Metropolitan Police officer, Paul Stephenson, claims the Heathrow plot ...

The University of Michigan's preliminary index of sentiment declined to 78.7 from 84.7 in July. The Chinese central bank today raised ...

A Penny Saved is a Waste of Time JOHN PUGSELY Ha! Those novice debasers were pikers. It took them 300 years to steal 97% of the coin's v...

Federal Judge Orders Halt to Warrantless Wiretapping A federal judge ruled Thursday that the government's warrantless surveillance progr...

Cost of water shortage: civil unrest, mass migration and economic collapse Cholera may return to London, the mass migration of Africans coul...

The Conference Board Index of Leading Economic Indicators fell 0.1 percent in July. The Labor Department reported that 312,000 workers appli...

Snow White's dwarfs more famous than US judges: poll Three quarters of Americans can correctly identify two of Snow White's seven dw...

The U.S. Labor Department said that YoY consumer prices were up 4.1% in July. Excluding food and energy, prices were up 2.7% YoY. Chinese f...

Wholesale prices, with food and fuel prices removed, fell 0.3 percent in July, the best showing for core inflation in nine months. Wholesal...

Could Puno and Guantanamo Be The Next Hong Kongs? The U.S. should remember what a colossal effect West Berlin had on the other side of the ...