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Six world powers held talks with Iran on Thursday that US officials said would need to convince them Tehran was prepared to show it was not hiding plans for a nuclear bomb.

Asian neighbours India and China will be the engines of global economic revival with 2009 growth rates of 5.4 per cent and 8.5 per cent respectively, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Thursday.

The US will provide $5 billion in new grants for medical research, which will also create thousands of new jobs, President Barack Obama announced on Wednesday.

Edited by Matthew Miller and Duncan Greenberg, Forbes.com
America's super rich are getting poorer. For only the fifth time since 1982, the collective net worth of The Forbes 400, our annual tally of the nation's richest people, has declined, falling $300 billion in the past 12 months from $1.57 trillion to $1.27 trillion.

The honour of being the guest at the first state dinner hosted by United States President Barack Obama would go to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and it will be held during his upcoming state visit scheduled for November 24.

In the event of an Indo-Pak nuclear war, India will emerge the ultimate "winner" after wiping off Pakistan but lose up to 500 million of its own people, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Taylor Branch has claimed in his 700-page book The Clinton Tapes.

Kiri Blakeley, Forbes.com
Attention eligible bachelors: Sabina Ptacin would like to meet you. She's the owner of two successful companies and is energetic and sociable.

Kurt Badenhausen, Forbes.com
The carnage of the economic downturn is everywhere with bankruptcies, foreclosures and unemployment soaring nationwide. None of the 50 states are immune. Only two, Alaska and North Dakota, are expected to see employment gains this year. Maryland, North Dakota and Virginia (by a hair) are the only states where the economy is projected to expand in 2009.

When Manmohan Singh and Montek Singh Ahluwalia addressed the press in the final hours of the Group of 20 summit, they wore satisfied smiles. It?s not often two people get a chance to midwife a new global economic order.

Three hundred years is a long time for a person to command the world's consistent attention, and yet, that is precisely the kind of hold Dictionary Johnson continues to exercise on the popular imagination.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday denounced Western reaction to news that Tehran was building a second uranium enrichment plant and said Iran had complied with all international regulation.

India was open in saying it had worked to ensure the Group of 20 Pittsburgh summit addressed climate change in only the blandest language.

If the White House had announced it was holding the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh in 1950, few would have been surprised. At that point, Pittsburgh had three-quarter of a million people and was home to nearly half the steel production of the United States.

Pittsburgh, Sept. 25 -- Hundreds of police and military officers patrolled the streets of the US city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and were on high alert behind steel and concrete barricades as world leaders kicked off the two-day Group of 20 (G20) summit.

Naveen Jindal has taken what was once a lemon and turned it into India's hottest play in steel and power.

John Koppisch and Scott DeCarlo, Forbes.com
More than in most years, our list of the 50 best big public companies in the region this year is a guide to the outfits that have real staying power. Companies that racked up big numbers when times were good had to show sterner stuff this year.

There's something very desirable about the corner office ... and the paycheck that comes with it.

World leaders committed to reaching a significant agreement to curb climate-damaging greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the year, but promised few specifics during the largest-ever summit on global warming.

US President Barack Obama delivered a stern speech to the leaders of the world's nations on Wednesday morning, challenging them to live up to their responsibilities even as he acknowledged that the US has fallen short on many fronts.

India is attempting to muster international opinion in its favour on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly with regard to the perceived lack of meaningful action taken by Pakistan against the accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks.