Google is making a direct assault on Microsoft's turf, announcing plans to launch its own operating system for personal computers. CNBC's Jim Goldman has the details.
As his family and fans say goodbye, the city of Los Angeles deals with the reported multi-million dollar price tag for the event, reports CNBC's Jane Wells.
Insight on the tough new rules to clamp down on speculative trading, with Bart Chilton, Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) commissioner and CNBC's Hampton Pearson.
The UK's Conservative Party said it would hand all financial regulatory power to the Bank of England should it win the next general election. George Osborne, shadow chancellor of the exchequer for the Conservative Party, spoke to CNBC.
China and India will eventually reach an international agreement on reducing carbon emissions, Nobuo Tanaka, executive director at the IEA, told CNBC at the G8 summit in Italy. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director at the IMF, joined the discussion.
China's claims that Rio staff have stolen state secrets are not unfounded, remarked Jonathan Barratt, MD at Commodity Broking Services. He tells Professor David Kelly of the University of Technology Sydney & CNBC's Karen Tso more.
The Uighur unrest in China is a long-simmering problem, the core of which are ethnic tensions between the Uighurs and the Han Chinese. Alistair Newton, managing director and senior political analyst at Nomura International explains the history to CNBC's Martin Soong and Amanda Drury.