December 22, 2011

The tsunami that Japan experienced this year tossed around some of Nissan’s electric cars. But the batteries remained intact.

Democrats, who usually have it easy in Hawaii, are in a rough patch — and Republicans may win a Senate seat that has long been out of their reach.

In recent weeks, a broad range of data have beaten analysts’ expectations, but forecasters say the uptick is likely temporary and that growth will slow in the first half of 2012.

India’s era of economic growth has created something unthinkable a generation ago: business opportunities for members of India’s untouchable caste, the Dalits.

A United States military inquiry concluded that mistakes by both American and Pakistani troops led to airstrikes against two Pakistani posts on the Afghanistan border.