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With the focus on Syria, also keep an eye on an unfolding economic meltdown in one of the world's most important economies: India.

Things may be better in Europe than we thought.

Germany's finance minister says Greece may need another big bailout.

Asian markets are down, and Indonesia is getting the worst of it.

The SEC is looking into whether the investment bank hired the children of powerful Chinese leaders in an effort to win business.

The closed dictatorship just released its very own smartphone with an Android operating system. Now all they need is some internet access.

A run on India's currency presages trouble in other emerging markets.

Milllions of textile workers still work in unsafe conditions four months after the Rana Plaza factory near Dhaka collapsed, causing 1,100 workers to lose their lives. There is much pressure for change, however.

It takes two quarters of economic shrinking to be called a recession, but just one quarter of growth to end one.

Baby formula companies are in the hot seat in China again.