Madrid / AFP Spain’s divided Socialists gathered in Madrid on Sunday for a meeting widely expected to help finally unblock the country’s ten-month political impasse. The party’s policy-setting federal committee is likely to lift a veto that has prevented the conservative Popular Party (PP) forming a minority government. The meeting follows weeks of in-fighting within the Socialists, Spain’s second largest …

Beijing/ AFP The leaders of the world’s most powerful political party gather in Beijing on Monday for a conclave that could change the course of Chinese history. In meetings at the exclusive Jingxi Hotel, safe from the public’s prying eyes, nearly 400 top members of the Chinese Communist Party will confer for four days, discussing changes to how the giant …

  Bloomberg Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has hit the reset button on its China strategy in dramatic fashion. The world’s largest retailer is making an ambitious push into e-commerce in China and aims to deliver goods from its stores around the world to Chinese consumers within hours. Shoppers in select remote villages could even see their Wal-Mart products being delivered by …