Facebook's IPO one of world's largest
NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook is about to find out just how much status updates, puppy photos and billions of "likes" are worth on Wall Street....
Global leaders seek to corral Europe crisis
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The leaders of eight of the world's biggest economies meet this weekend outside Washington, seeking to keep Europe's debt crisis from spiraling out of control and jeopardizing fledgling recoveries in the U.S. and elsewhere....
Asia stock markets sink on US, Europe worries
BANGKOK (AP) -- Asian stocks dived Friday after discouraging U.S. economic reports unnerved investors already worried about the stability of the 17-country euro currency union....
Oil hovers below $93 after sharp 2-week sell-off
SINGAPORE (AP) -- Oil prices hovered below $93 a barrel Friday in Asia, pausing after the latest twists in Europe's debt crisis triggered a sharp two-week selloff....
Japan launches rocket with first foreign satellite
TOKYO (AP) -- A rocket has lifted off in Japan in the country's first commercial launch of a foreign satellite - one from South Korea designed to monitor the environment....
China shadow looming, Taiwan's Ma set for 2nd term
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou has leveraged growing economic ties with China to reduce tensions to their lowest level since the two sides split in 1949. China's incessant effort to draw the democratic island closer politically has been on the back burner, and as Ma's second term begins Sunday the question is whether he can keep it there....
Wal-Mart's 1Q profit up 10.1 percent
NEW YORK (AP) -- Wal-Mart may have gotten its groove back, but an alleged bribery scheme threatens to curtail its progress....
Fate of 'uninsurables' hinges on Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Cancer patient Kathy Watson voted Republican in 2008 and believes the government has no right telling Americans to get health insurance. Nonetheless, she says she'd be dead if it weren't for President Barack Obama's health care law....
US gov't sets stiff tariffs on China solar panels
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration moved Thursday to impose stiff new tariffs on solar panels made in China, finding that Chinese companies are improperly flooding the U.S. market with government-subsidized products....
