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A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake has killed at least 28 people in Ecuador, this is the moment it struck.

People just don't like the stock market, and they probably won't for a long time. Since the end of the financial crisis, individual investors have invested nearly nothing in the stock market in aggregate. Individual inv...

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Over the past decade, interest has grown in an ostensibly unorthodox approach for helping people who don’t have much money: just give them more of it, no strings attached.   In the old days of policymaking by aphorism...

NERC chief has final say and faces dilemma between credibility of the organisation and burden of public opinion Forget the EU referendum. The major test of modern democracy has fallen into the hands of the Natural Enviro...

A powerful, 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook Ecuador's central coast on Saturday, killing at least 28 people and spreading panic hundreds of miles away as it collapsed homes and buckled a major overpass.

It's a cage match with slide rules between Bill Dudley and Dennis Lockhart over measuring gross domestic product. Dudley, the New York Fed chief, is locking horns with Lockhart, the Atlanta Fed president, over accuracy. ...

An Oxfam America report reveals that the 50 largest U.S. corporations have hidden $1.4 trillion in offshore tax havens. Yet, the same corporations are the beneficiaries of big tax breaks and lower tax rates instead of th...

Buildups by the United States, Russia and China unsettle the balance of destructive force that has kept the nuclear peace for more than a half-century.

Former Kiss lead guitarist Ace Frehley has been hospitalized for exhaustion and forced to cancel a show in New York.

President Correa calls national emergency after at least 142 people killed and over 500 injured in 7.8-magnitude quake 12.40pm BST Ecuadorian vice president Jorge Glas has told a press conference at least 142 people have...

Pope Francis says one of the refugees he met on the Greek island of Lesbos was the Muslim widower of a Syrian Christian woman killed by extremists for refusing to renounce her faith. …

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TV show's 'big reveal' revealed big problems, lawsuit contends Deena Murphy and Timothy Sullivan contend 'reality show' is 'fantasy' The HGTV series' production company considers allegations 'false' …

Figures show bank cut investments by 70% in oil and gas firms in 2015 and doubled UK green energy loans to £1bn a year Royal Bank of Scotland has reduced its global lending to oil and gas companies and doubled its green...

Multiple quakes leave 41 dead, thousands injured and entire communities homeless with little access to food or water.

San Francisco is now requiring some 37,000 Uber and Lyft drivers who operate in the city and work seven or more days a year to secure a license. A license fee of $91 shall be paid by drivers who earn less than $100,000 a...

Video shows hundreds of people attacking each other with metal bars, planks of wood and other debris near Stalingrad metro.

For many years, precious metal commodity investors have screamed over certain price movements. Then came the convictions and penalties for the banks involved in the Libor rigging scandal, which gave the gold and silver t...

Police in the western city of Essen say they are keeping an open mind about the reasons for an apparently deliberate explosion at a Sikh temple that injured three people late Saturday

What's bugging Bubba? Bill Clinton appears to be growing testy as Bernie Sanders keeps nipping at Hillary's heels. "There's been a lot of theater in this race," the former president said Saturday. "Some of it's been ente...