...mitted that the two electricity grid operators had not expected such an upsurge in demand. Thursday’s maximum demand topped 67 million kilowatts, well above the KPX’s estimates at about 64 million kil...s electricity reserves by more than 8.3 million kilowatts, he said. Critics slammed the government’s failure to conduct adequate due diligence, saying Thursday’s peak demand was not even closer to th...

This image provided by NASA shows an artist’s depiction showing a discovery by NASA’s Kepler mission of a world where two suns set over the horizon instead of just one. (AP-Yonhap News) MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (AP) -- Astronomers say a bit of science fiction is now reality. They‘ve spotted a planet orbiting two suns. The discovery was made by NASA’s planet-hunting telescope Kepler. Scientists...

...would gain a narrow majority in the 179-seat Parliament. “We did it. Make no mistake: We have written history,” the 44-year-old opposition leader told jubilant supporters in Copenhagen. “Today there’s a change of guards in Denmark.” Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen conceded defeat, saying he would present his Cabinet’s resignation Friday to Queen Margrethe, Denmark’s figurehead monarch. “So tonight I hand over the keys to the prime minister’s office to Helle Thorning-Schmidt. And dear Helle, take good care of them. You’re only borrowing them,” Loekke Rasmussen ...

ROME (AP) ― Already facing criticism over Italy’s financial crisis and engulfed in a sex scandal, Premier Silvio Berlusconi might face another trial in Milan. The latest storm surrounding Berlusconi...sure on a premier who already faces four active legal cases and is politically weakened. Berlusconi’s supporters called the move further proof that Milan magistrates are out to get the premier. His la...

BlackBerry maker struggles to compete with Apple, Google’s Android TORONTO (AP) ― Shares of Research In Motion plummeted more than 18 percent after hours after the BlackBerry maker reported its net ...y in the consumer market has been short-lived. U.S. consumers have moved on to phones with big touchscreens like Apple Inc.’s iPhone and various models that run Google Inc.’s Android operating system.

...o it alone. “We’ve got a great Union,” he said at a Tea Party rally in Austin in April 2009. “There’s absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the Americ...ngton would actually save blue states from red states. So is Perry a closet liberal? Hardly. Perry’s approach would also pit each state against another. That’s already happening when it comes to comp...

The latest issue of Foreign Affairs magazine carries an article on the inevitability of China becoming the next superpower, one of a mounting cascade of articles on America’s decline and China’s rise. For many Chinese, it is high time for their country to regain its rightful place in the world, after a century and a half of humiliation, beginning with the Opium War of 1839-42 and culminating wit...