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...Guinean government says it has signed a $7 billion agreement with a Chinese mining company, just one month after a massacre of protesters by government troops drew international condemnation. The unnamed firm will dig for diamonds, gold and bauxite and provide Guinea with much-needed revenue as it faces the prospect of economic isolation. The deal--which could give Guinea's $23 billion GDP a massive boost--puts China in direct competition with U.S. and Russian mining companies. China's trade interests in Africa have increased tenfold since...
North Korea continued its one-step-forward, one-step-back approach to diplomacy this month, encouraging and alarming nations trying to get Pyongyang to the table to discuss nuclear disarmament...
Closer scrutiny of last month's report of the first successfully tested AIDS vaccine suggests scientists spoke too soon. Analysis of a subset of data found that the vaccine's benefit may not be statistically significant; odds of being protected from infection could be no better than chance. Critics say the study's authors should have waited to publicize the results until after other scientists had vetted them...
Stocks continued their seven-month rally, lifting the Dow Jones industrial average above 10,000 points for the first time since last October. The symbolic milestone followed better-than-expected September retail sales and once troubled banking giant JPMorgan Chase's report that it earned $3.6 billion in the third quarter. Optimists considered the news an omen of improved economic conditions despite stubbornly high unemployment...
...Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will begin hearings on Tuesday on the climate change and energy bill introduced last month by Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass), who arrived in Boston with the President aboard Air Force One, and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif...