October 5, 2012

Although global demand for solar panels and wind turbines has grown rapidly in recent years, China’s manufacturing capacity grew faster, creating an oversupply and a price war.

A conviction of securities fraud, wire fraud and mail fraud could be overturned because it might not apply to foreign transactions.

President Obama and Mitt Romney confronted what one feared and the other hoped was an altered campaign after a debate in which Mr. Obama’s performance was widely panned.

“Grace,” Craig Wright’s tale of a Christian entrepreneur in Florida, stars Michael Shannon and Paul Rudd.

Constrained by scarcer financing but aided by better technology, new businesses have fewer employees than they did a decade ago, posing a worrying trend for employment.

In the Iranian capital, all anyone can talk about is the rial, and how lives have been turned upside down during a week in which the currency’s value plunged by 40 percent.

The growing outbreak of meningitis was a calamity waiting to happen — the result of a lightly regulated type of drug production that had a troubled past colliding with a popular treatment.

Hundreds of half-trained and well-armed members of an army for hire, now stranded in Somalia, offer a lesson in the risks of outsourced wars.

The mayor has asked school officials to come up with “a radically different plan” under which students would be assigned to schools as close to home as possible.

Many Venezuelans are anxious about casting ballots against President Hugo Chávez because of a widespread belief that the government retaliates against dissenters.

Unemployment fell to 7.8 percent from 8.1 percent, reaching its lowest level since President Obama took office and crossing what had become a symbolic threshold in the campaign.

Costco, the giant discount retailer, is returning to the art market after a six-year hiatus prompted by the sale of two disputed Picasso drawings online.