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  • China's Li Na sits in chair shortly after her women's singles final loss to Kim Clijsters of Belgium at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)

    Top 10 from 10 different countries in WTA rankings

    From Australia to Belarus to China, the top of the women's tennis rankings looks like a United Nations of tennis.


  • From left, Tunisia's Central Bank Governor Mustapha Kamel Nabli, Tunisia's Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Yassine Brahim and Minister of Communication Technology Sami Zaoui participate in a media conference regarding recent events in Tunisia at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

    Tunisia bank chief: Country is open for business

    The governor of Tunisia's central bank said Saturday that his country is back in business, welcoming back investors and will instill transparency as attempts to allay any fears about commerce there.


  • Police fire rubber bullets at protesters outside the meeting hall of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011. More than two dozen senior officials from key economies will try Saturday to agree on whether to send a political signal that a new global trade deal can, at last, be completed this year as the World Economic Forum gradually comes to a close. (AP Photo/KEYSTONE/Jean-Christophe Bott)

    Echoes of Egypt swirl around World Economic Forum

    Where anti-capitalist protesters failed at the World Economic Forum, the protests in Egypt have become the most-talked about subject at the annual Swiss Alpine retreat of global political and business leaders.


  • WikiLeaks rival launches new secret-spilling site

    A former WikiLeaks spokesman launched a rival website Friday, saying he planned to give whistleblowers more control over the secrets they spill.


  • AP Interview: Electric car boss sees global change

    Electric car pioneer Shai Agassi is a man with a startling prediction: Before 2020, he says, more people everywhere will be buying electric cars than those powered by gasoline.


  • VERSACE: We're rebounding, but at what speed?

    What will happen to the stock market when the Fed completes its current bond-buying program at a time when we are feeling the fuller effects of recent commodity price and other input costs?


  • World Scene

    Mandela hospitalized for medical tests


  • Economic forum focuses on jobs, China

    It may be time to stop referring to China, the world's second-biggest economy after the U.S., as an emerging nation and focus on creating jobs now that the global recovery appears to have gotten a toehold.


  • John Krenicki, vice-chairman of GE and CEO of GE Energy, USA, speaks during a session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

    At Davos forum, call to upgrade China's economy

    It may be time to stop referring to China, the world's second-biggest economy after the U.S., as an emerging nation and focus on creating jobs now that the global recovery appears to have gotten a toehold. That's what top business leaders, politicians and social activists discussed, among other issues, on the first day of the World Economic Forum on Wednesday.


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