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BANGKOK, Thailand -- Their condition recalls dark tales from the 18th century: underfed men lorded over by seafaring captains who pay them nothing and maim the disobedient. Yet these forced labor abuses play out on Thai-...

Starting Tuesday, Mr. Smiley will anchor a weekday show on BlogTalkRadio and produce programs from other contributors under the Tavis Smiley Network.

Oh my god. This is the sweetest dog food commercial of all time. It's charming and authentic and will make you smile. And it doesn't push the dog food in a salesy way. It perfectly taps into that emotion that all dog lov...

Changing direction can be painful, but often necessaryIn the startup world, pivoting means doing something differently. Entrepreneurs say they have to be open to swift change if their business isn't working.

Behold: the Wendy's Pretzel Bacon Cheeseburger, a $4.69 premium burger.

Google has been contacted by the Federal Trade Commission over their $1.1 billion purchase of mobile mapping app Waze -- sparking off an antitrust investigation into whether the deal would have adverse effects on competi...

A few of us were sitting around after a day of fishing on pristine waters, with marvelous weather and wonderful conversation here in Maine. We discussed the results of Fed (Federal Reserve) policy and its impact on the h...

Consumers shopping for a mortgage who want assurance that all quoted prices are valid should seek multi-lender web sites that post prices received directly from lenders, not prices submitted by intermediaries.

LISBON -- For an enterprise in the business of welcoming life, the birthing ward in Portugal's largest maternity hospital is eerily quiet. On a recent morning, not a single expectant father nervously paced the orange lam...

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The observation about the thicket of British talent in the American media landscape is hardly new, but something is at work here.

As the Justice Department's so-called "eBooks" antitrust trial winds down in a Manhattan federal courtroom, it is remarkable how many people have failed to see how easy the case really is.

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI

Ben Bernanke's Federal Reserve thinks the economy is going to shift into a higher gear over the next year, but don't expect to find any evidence of burned rubber this week.

Data to be released includes earnings from Barnes & Noble and Monsanto, as well as new-home sales for May.

Last night was the "Super Moon", which is the largest full moon of the year. As Dina Spector explained: A supermoon occurs when a full moon coincides with the moon being closest to Earth in its orbit, also known as perig...

A man who was killed in a multi-car accident on Route 3 in Billerica Saturday night has been identified as 27-year-old Steven Khabbaz of Tewksbury, according to the State Police. Troopers responded to the scene, north of...

Damn, the 21st century is confusing. Edward Snowden's bizarre-yet-totally-predictable flight from Hong Kong to Moscow and, it seems, Ecuador, heading for a refuge from U.S. espionage and other charges, shows how things r...

A proposal to turn a historic former fire station on Beacon Street in Newton into studio apartments for chronically homeless people has raised the ire of many residents in the Waban neighborhood, who fear the housing wil...

Adobe rolled out Photoshop CC in the past week, enhancing the gold standard of image editing applications with powerful new capabilities. Let's test these intelligent tools folded into the new version, and figure out if ...