The rupee hit a record low to the dollar for the fifth straight session on Tuesday, weighed down by large dollar demand from oil firms and weak global risk sentiment, especially after Fitch downgraded Japan's ratings. (read more here…)
Targeting Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital “is what this campaign is going to be about,” he says. (read the story…)
Are members of Congress dumbing down their discourse? The Sunlight Foundation determined that Congress is talking at nearly a full grade level below the level at which members spoke seven years ago, according to its study of the Congressional Record—the official record of members’ proceedings and speech. (read the story…)
Newark Mayor Cory Booker slammed the Obama campaign’s ad criticizing Mitt Romney’s record as the head of Bain Capital, and called for an end to”nauseating” attacks from both sides. “I have to just say from a very personal level, I’m not about to sit here and indict private equity,” Booker, a Democrat, said in...
KATMANDU, Nepal -; A 73-year-old Japanese woman climbed to Mount Everest's peak Saturday, smashing her own record to again become the oldest woman to scale the world's highest mountain. … (read more…)
Researchers from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan claim to have broken the record for wireless data transmission in the Terahertz band with a data rate 20 times higher than most current … (read more…)
