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Users in China are reporting that access to LinkedIn has been blocked throughout the country.

Some 11,500 years ago one of America's earliest families laid the remains of a 3-year-old child to rest in their home in what is now Alaska. The discovery of that burial is shedding new light on the life and times of the early settlers who crossed from Asia to the New World, researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Science....

Alibaba.com CEO David Wei resigned after an internal investigation found that more than 2,300 sellers on the e-commerce site were committing fraud, sometimes with the help of Alibaba.com sales staff.

An American accused of shooting and killing two Pakistani men in January is an independent contractor to the CIA who provided security for U.S. officials, a U.S. official said Monday.

Thailand's economy emerges from recession after a pick up in exports, government figures show.

Ignighter.com, a site for organizing group dates, wasn’t bringing in much traffic in the U.S. But the founders noticed that it was adding thousands of users a day in India.

Jittery Chinese authorities wary of any domestic dissent staged a concerted show of force Sunday to squelch a mysterious online call for a "Jasmine Revolution" apparently modeled after pro-democracy demonstrations sweeping the Middle East.

Surgeons in southern China successfully removed a rusty, 4-inch (10-centimeter) knife from the skull of a man who said it had been stuck in there for four years, the hospital said Friday....

Malaysian police have arrested three suspects involved in the heist of some 725,000 condoms, which have not yet been found.

China's central bank raised interest rates on Tuesday, its second increase in just over a month, intensifying its fight against stubbornly high inflation.