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Despising the British upper class is so utterly common, as we see in "The Riot Club," a farcically heavy-handed attempted satiric takedown of an elite group of Oxford students. Modeled...

The Ili Pika, a rare animal with a teddy bear face and bunny-like ears, has been finally found and photographed more than 20 years after it was first discovered.

The crash of a Germanwings plane in France has put the safety record of European airlines under scrutiny.

Vanderbilt sophomore Luke Kornet was in the middle of a scary play during the Commodores' NIT game against Stanford on Tuesday when Kornet got hit in the jaw by an elbow as he was attempting to play defense. Kornet was a...

Ok, universe, we understand that you can't get enough "Uptown Funk" remixes. Middle school teacher Kelli Hauser thought she'd get her students pumped up for their State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) ...

The sudden departure of the longtime White House florist has the scent of scandal.

Lawmakers investigating allegations that two senior Secret Service agents drove drunk through an active bomb threat investigation at the White House hammered agency director Joe Clancy on Tuesday for his unwillingness to...

Women can undergo a variety of genetic tests but have fewer options for treatment.          

Embattled president asks UNSC to authorise a military intervention "to protect Yemen and to deter Houthi aggression".

Genstar Capital is buying Mercer Global Advisors, a large Santa Barbara, Calif., RIA, from former PE owners Lovell Minnick Partners. Plus: The latest ranking of fee-only RIAs by AUM

If you rang up central casting and requested a stereotypical French intellectual, the famed novelist and poet Michel Houellebecq is surely what you'd get: underfed, beaky, a complainer and chain...

In today's world, you don't need raise millions of dollars or rid your life savings to start a business. Here's how I did it for less than $100.

A Pennsylvania police officer was charged Tuesday with criminal homicide after investigators concluded she shot an unarmed motorist in the back as he lay facedown after a traffic stop over an expired inspection sticker.

LOS ANGELES — Do you know how fast you were raising money? In just over 24 hours, comedy group Broken Lizard raised the $2 million it needed to hit the gas on Super Troopers 2, a sequel to the 2001 cult classic about a...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of Pacific Sunwear of California  are down 2.04% to $2.88 on heavy volume in afternoon trading Wednesday, ahead of the teen retailer's fourth quarter earnings results, scheduled to be rele...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- AutoZone shares are down 0.2% to $666.17 in early market trading on Wednesday after the automotive parts retailer announced the authorization of a repurchase of an additional $750 million of comp...

Online financial planning service company LearnVest sells itself to Northwestern Mutual, confirming that IPOs are not the only successful exits.

Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington D.C.'s nonvoting member of Congress, apparently had quite the experience while parking her car on Wednesday. Roll Call's gossip blog "Heard on the Hill" obtained footage of Norton strugg...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Warren Buffett sure does love his unhealthy condiments. On Wednesday, the billionaire investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway announced that he was teaming up with 3G Capital again to provide equit...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- PayPal has long been a key player in digital transactions between consumers and merchants. But now the eBay unit is scrambling to keep up with the radical transformation going on in mobile payment...

(Reuters) - U.S. stocks opened higher on Wednesday despite weak industrial orders data, after a merger agreement between Kraft Foods and Heinz Co.

Kraft and Heinz are coming together in a massive merger that will create the 5th largest food company in the world. There are two investment firms behind it, Berkshire Hathaway and 3G. Of course you know that Berkshire i...