First it was instant messaging during office hours that gave us the thrill of passing notes in class. Then it was exposing ourselves via Web cams, ranting our minds on blogs, uploading our baby photos on Flickr and poking each other on Facebook. These days, as corporate records show, we choose to spend our lunch breaks watching YouTube, if not chat...

Yahoo Inc.'s first-quarter performance was a little like Goldilocks' favorite soup -- not too hot and not too cold, and that has set the table for a bitter battle over Microsoft Corp.'s bid to take over the Internet pioneer.

Greg Norman makes a rare return to tournament golf at the Asian Open this week, four years after being disqualified from the tournament.

The latest leg of the protest-plagued Olympic torch relay brought the flame to Australia Wednesday, with demonstrators vowing to show up in their hundreds despite promises of tough police countermeasures.

Japan's trade surplus in March shrank 30.2 percent from a year earlier, amid signs of slowing exports that could pull down the overall economy, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday.

After more than a week of protests against what some Chinese see as the demonization of their nation by the West, there are indications the Chinese government is making an effort to rein in the anger.

He's the butt-kicking, karate-chopping, kung fu superstar who rose from nowhere to conquer Hollywood in a spectacularly visual style.

A Chinese ship that was blocked from unloading its cargo in South Africa may return to China because of difficulties at African ports, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said Tuesday.

The self-styled "adventure capitalist" and self-made millionaire, Jim Rogers, imparts his investing wisdom on Talk Asia this week.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Tuesday that rising food prices pose as great a threat to world prosperity as the global credit crunch, warning that spiraling prices threaten to reverse progress made to alleviate poverty in the developing world.