HONG KONG - In order to tap into Africa’s rich mineral and oil resources, China has injected billions of dollars in aid and investment into the continent while at the same time giving a free pass on despotism and human-rights abuses to nations such Continue ..

Brazil will host the World Cup football (soccer) tournament in 2014 and the Summer Olympic Games in 2016. Brazil is South America’s biggest economy. Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters. Continue ..

Volkswagen AG is kicking its race to become the world’s largest auto maker into a higher gear, hooking up in a strategic alliance with Suzuki Motor Corp. in the latest in a series of deals that are transforming the global auto industry. The two auto Continue ..

HOUSTON — Fereidoun M. Esfandiary , the son of an Iranian diplomat, played on his country’s first Olympic basketball team, in the 1948 Summer Games, and shortly thereafter became the first known Iranian basketball player to enroll in an American Continue ..

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