SHANGHAI — After two weeks in which China contended that Tibet’s government in exile had instigated the riots earlier this month to tarnish the coming Summer Olympics in Beijing, the Chinese government on Sunday issued for the first time what it said was evidence of the plot. Xinhua, the state-run news agency, said the Chinese police had a confession written by an unidentified monk who they said... 

March 31 - HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe’s biggest bank by market value, started private banking services in China as rising demand from the nation’s growing ranks of millionaires helps counter slower growth in U.S. and Europe. The bank will open the business in Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai, it said in a statement today. HSBC will target customers with a net worth of at least $10 million. HSBC... 

WASHINGTON — Know how a whiff of certain odors can take you back in time, either to a great memory or bad one? It turns out emotion plays an even bigger role with the nose, and that your sense of smell actually can sharpen when something bad happens. Northwestern University researchers proved the surprising connection by giving volunteers electric shocks while they sniffed novel odors. The discovery,... 

March 30, 2008 -  A security researcher on Friday exploited a critical bug in Adobe Systems Inc.’s Flash Player to hack a notebook running Windows Vista Ultimate, the second machine to fall in this year’s “PWN To OWN” challenge. The only unclaimed laptop of the original trio by the contest’s end was a Sony Vaio running the Ubuntu distribution of Linux. Shane Macaulay,... 

HTC TyTn II phone has finally launched in India. This professional and trendy mobile device features a global high-speed access through HSDPA connectivity while in-built GPS allows personal navigation. Following its launch Ajay Sharma, Country Manager, High Tech Computer Corp (HTC) India, said, “HTC TyTn II will meet the needs of both the mobile professionals and advanced mobile consumers who can... 

Text messaging and emailing are fun as long as you don’t become addicted to them, an article in the American Journal of Psychiatry wrote. New research revealed that, like excessive gaming or virtual sex, e-mail and text messaging might be part of a compulsive-impulsive spectrum disorder and a form of addiction. The article, by Dr. Jerald Block, said there were four symptoms: suffering from feelings... 

Advanced Micro Devices Inc., which took a lot of heat for falling off its game last year, looks to be back in the fray with today’s unveiling of three desktop processors. AMD announced that it’s releasing Phenom X49000 processors for high-end desktop systems, along with the 65-watt quad-core Phenom X4 9100e and the Phenom X3 8000 triple-core processors. Today’s announcements came... 

People who have big bellies in their 40s are much more likely to get Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia in their 70s, according to new research that links the middle-aged spread to a fading mind for the first time. The study of more than 6,000 people found that the more fat they had in their guts in their early to mid-40s, the greater their chances of becoming forgetful and confused and... 

BANGKOK - India’s Tata Motors Ltd said on Thursday it was confident its $2.3 billion deal to buy Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford should improve its balance sheet in the long term. “We have gone through the profit and loss and balance sheet. We think we are pretty confident that they will add positively to our consolidated balance sheet,” managing director Ravi Kant told Reuters on... 

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The space shuttle Endeavour returned safely to Earth on Wednesday evening, completing a record-breaking 16-day mission to the International Space Station. The shuttle rolled to a stop at 8:39 p.m., roughly an hour after its commander, Dominic L. Gorie, fired twin braking rockets that brought the spacecraft out of orbit. “Wheels stop,” Mr. Gorie said after the shuttle came...