Nordic women at home in the workplace A highly-educated woman who becomes a stay-at-home mum is a "complete waste" of a university degree, Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, herself a mother-of-two, lashed out in a British newspaper interview last year.
07 March 2013
Kazakhstan may cease gas supplies to RussiaIf we don’t agree on the prices now, all this gas will be redirected to the south, possibly to China, in 2015 after Beineu-Bozoi-Shymkent pipeline is completed: Kazakhstan Minister.
07 March 2013
iPhone extends gains in US market: survey Apple's iPhone gained ground in the US market over the holiday season and early 2013, outpacing Samsung and other smartphone makers using the Android operating system.
US, China to increase nuclear sanctions on N. Korea The United States and China will on Thursday seek to tighten the UN sanctions screws on North Korea after its widely condemned nuclear bomb test last month.
07 March 2013
French minister vows to cut red tape for investors A French minister vowed Thursday to cut bureaucracy in a bid to lure foreign investors, and said her South Korean roots would help to boost France's profile in booming Asia.
07 March 2013
Senator to speak 'as long as it takes' over CIA pick A Republican senator seeking to block President Barack Obama's nominee to lead the CIA is vowing to speak as long as it takes to do so, citing concern about drone strikes on US soil.
Google Play celebrates first birthday Google Play turned a year old on Wednesday and the Android-focused rival to Apple's online iTunes shop celebrated with deals on books, games, music, movies and apps.
07 March 2013
Syria rebels seize UN peacekeepers, take key city Negotiations were under way with Syrian rebels who seized 21 UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights ceasefire zone between Syria and Israel, as rebels took total control of the key northern city of Raqa.
07 March 2013
Accident at Kashagan field in Kazakhstan An accident has happened at one of the drilling rigs on artificial island D of Kashagan oil field in Kazakhstan's part of the Caspian Sea.
Amano wins second IAEA term, this time easily It is a testament to Yukiya Amano's success as head of the UN atomic agency that unlike his appointment in 2009, securing a second term was a formality.
07 March 2013
Google says FBI watching the Web Google says the FBI is monitoring the Web for potential terrorist activity. But it can't confirm the extent of the surveillance.
Iran's Ahmadinejad mourns 'martyr' ChavezIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad paid tribute to late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez on Wednesday saying he had fallen "martyr" to a "suspect illness".
07 March 2013
Warhol's Marilyn lips lead online auction An online-only auction of a trove of Andy Warhol's lesser, but often hitherto unavailable works, raised $2.3 million at Christie's, with a lithograph of Marilyn Monroe's lips coming out on top.