Source: Afghan election talks break down

Talks between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his election opponent, Abdullah Abdullah (pictured), have broken down, a Western source close to the Afghan leadership told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.

China eclipsed the U.S. last year as the world’s largest auto market as reflected by the growing importance of the Beijing Auto Show.

A British oil rig is due to start drilling off the Falkland Islands in a move likely to stoke further tensions between Argentina and the UK over the disputed South Atlantic territory.

The United States plans to express formal concern to the Chinese government soon after Google said a cyber attack from China targeted human rights activists.

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China’s parliament opens its annual session on Friday as policy-makers seek answers to some Western sounding problems. The National People’s Congress is expected to tackle boosting people’s incomes, bridging the rich-poor divide, curbing rampant corruption, and mitigating environmental degradation.

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Oil is on its way out. That journey will take several decades, but it’s begun. Mindful markets and civil society will complete it as inexorably as innovators and capitalists got America off whale-oil lamps in the 1850s.

General Motors will pay off a $6.7 billion federal loan by June, well ahead of the deadline for the repayment under terms of the bailout, company CEO Ed Whitacre said Tuesday.

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Five British soldiers have been shot and killed in an attack in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, the British Ministry of Defense said Wednesday.

Strong winds and waves delayed rescuers trying to save dozens of passengers after a ferry sank Sunday off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing at least 25, officials said.

Tension mounted on the streets of Bangkok as a political standoff continued Friday with no immediate resolution in sight.