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The World Bank on Monday issued a report saying the damage from Japan's earthquake and tsunami could amount to as much as $235 billion and that limited effects from the disaster will be felt in economies across East Asia. Rebuilding in the aftermath of...

Authorities battling the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant have doubled the number of workers on the site to 100 in an effort to continue cooling the three reactors and the spent fuel pools but have abandoned — at least...

Gold’s surge continued Monday, with the metal topping $1,400 an ounce for the first time after the head of the World Bank raised the idea of pegging currency values to gold -- a return, on some level, to the old......

We're No. 8! Eighth-largest economy in the world, that is. Despite the worst recession in 60 years and one out of eight workers out of a job, California, if it were its own country, would still be in eighth place......

The International Atomic Energy Agency is using Facebook and YouTube to issue updates on nuclear plant damaged in Japan's earthquake and tsunami over the weekend. The IAEA is posting updates in the form of both status messages and notes and has done so...

If you caught the April 1 episode of "This American Life," a fear of nuclear power may have been cemented. In one segment, actors read harrowing passages from "Voices from Chernobyl," a collection of interviews that documents how people were......

The Obama administration on Wednesday backed the United Steelworkers union in its accusation that China is giving an illegal boost to wind power manufacturers there. By filing a case with the World Trade Organization, the U.S. is challenging the Asian.......

The factors that led to the popular upheaval in Tunisia set off alarm bells throughout the Arab world, and the Palestinian Authority was no different. Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad spent more than two hours on Sunday talking to......

The World Trade Organization has delivered a preliminary ruling on whether Boeing received billions in backdoor government subsidies, and Airbus is pleased with the verdict. The confidential ruling was sent to U.S. and EU officials on Wednesday. While it...

The first book by Mohamed ElBaradei, who has emerged as an opposition leader in Egypt, will be rushed to shelves this spring....

by Mark Silva It may not be the "reset button'' that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented her Russian counterpart earlier this year - a symbol of the need to start over again in relations between the United States and......

by Mark Silva Robert S. McNamara, the former secretary of defense for two presidents who only late in life acknowledged that he and his colleagues were "wrong, terribly wrong'' in the prosecution of the war in Vietnam, passed away today......