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This year's winners include: a tool to identify new disease strains, an artificial hand, a solar-powered base station for mobile phones and paper-thin flexible speakers.

Exclusives: Indie will distrib Genius DVD catalog -- Vivendi Entertainment is taking over the core home entertainment distribution operations of Genius Products and acquiring distribution rights to Genius' biggest DVD franchises, including World Wrestling Entertainment and 'Sesame Street.'

With his Wall Street speech on Monday, the President hopes to build support for regulatory fixes aimed at preventing another banking crisis

Just a month after taking office, President Obama asked Congress to move fast to reform the 'outdated' system of financial oversight and install 'tough, new common-sense rules of the road' for Wall Street.

Wall Street making money the same ways that created chaos in banking system.

Business News: Ginepri Capital backing Rollins, Allen venture -- Producers Stephen Rollins and Todd Allen are launching Identity Entertainment with backing from Wall Street trader Ginepri Capital Partners and senior trader S.K. Dean.

Public spending cuts could plunge Britain into a double-dip recession, driving unemployment above 4m and threatening to provoke riots on the streets, the country's most senior union leader said

Just a month after taking office, President Obama asked Congress to move fast to reform the 'outdated' system of financial oversight and install 'tough, new common-sense rules of the road' for Wall Street.

Police contracts that put pressure on forensic scientists to deliver low-cost investigations within tight timescales risk jeopardising quality and could lead to a miscarriage of justice, experts have warned.Police forces have changed the way they obtain forensic science services for criminal investigations and now pick laboratories through competitive tendering.That has led to forces typically employing firms that offer the lowest cost or quickest turnaround time for testing evidence, according to Clare Stangoe, principal scientist at Forensic Access, a leading provider of forensics services. The murder and sex crimes specialist said that whereas before scientists were given 'the time they need', they might now have to deliver results within three days, with the laboratory facing a fine if they are late.'The danger comes where arbitrary time frames are put on work,' Stangoe said. 'Too much pressure put on scientists to do the work so quickly [means] that they may only do very specifica

PETALING JAYA, Sun: An old woman was murdered while trying to protect the family jewellery worth more than RM100,000 in a break-in at her flat in Desa Mentari, Bandar Sunway, here on Saturday night. ...