Homeowners who were victims of foreclosure abuses during 2009 and 2010 could receive more than $125,000 from lenders as part of an Independent Foreclosure Review that is being overseen by two government agencies. […]

Some of the world's biggest banks were downgraded Thursday by rating agency Moody's, which cited concerns about the stability of the global financial system. […]

All three major U.S. indexes fell roughly 2% Thursday as investors fled the market on fears of slowing global growth and rumors of an imminent Moody's downgrade of major global banks. […]

Oil prices fell Thursday, hitting an eight-month low, as markets continued to react to disappointing economic news across the globe. […]

A new Louisiana law requires sex offenders and child predators to state their criminal status on their Facebook or other social networking page, with the law's author saying the bill is the first of its kind in the nation. […]

The tiniest iPhone rumors can cause a big uproar. […]

The world has high hopes for Samsung's Galaxy S III, but does the smartphone live up to the hype? […]

Will you be any worse off the moment humans cease to speak in Aragonese? How about Navajo, or Ojibwa? Or Koro, a language only just discovered in a tiny corner of northeast India? […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Moody's Investors Service cut the credit ratings of 15 of the world's biggest banks on Thursday in an expected move that was part of a broad review of major financial institutions. […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - In the weeks leading up to Moody's downgrade of major global banks, corporate treasurers quietly accelerated their own reviews of where to put their bank deposits, who they trade swaps with and who they borrow from. […]

(Reuters) - Arch Coal Inc will cut about a tenth of its workforce, or 750 jobs, as it closes three higher-cost mining complexes and associated plants in response to the weak U.S. market for thermal coal. […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks posted the worst day in three weeks on Thursday on mounting evidence that slowing manufacturing growth worldwide threatened corporate profits. […]

Work is underway designing tiny robotic cubes imbedded with magnets on each plane that can create a duplicate of any object, either equal in size to the original or any size version as required. Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Robotics department are currently working with two dimensional cubes of four sides, each cube containing a microprocessor wit […]

Mobile Phone Lumia 900 is here to stay. Lumia 900 is here thanks once again to the Finland Company Nokia. This is great news for the mobile phone giant that is presenting this device at a low cost and a streamlined design with a front-facing camera for video conferencing. This is putting it on the same playing field as the likes of Samsung and Apple that now […]

The government has finally agreed that creative and motivating ICT classes be reintroduced to the classroom by teaching children to program and put computer science back in the core of ICT lessons. The Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove is reported as saying that the present ICT curriculum was ‘demotivating and dull’. Advising Mr Gove on implemen […]

(Reuters) - Major airlines struggling to maintain profits in the face of stiff competition and rising fuel bills are increasingly looking at sales of non-ticket extras as a way to boost earnings without harming their reputations or alienating customers. […]

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Aer Lingus called on its shareholders to reject a fresh bid from rival Irish airline Ryanair as analysts and investors questioned whether the deal would be allowed. […]