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A zoo sheds light on animal behaviour in the office

In the long history of poor management decisions made at major American companies, only a few proved to be fatal to the firm. Here's a list of them.

Christopher Cantwell never asked to become a moderator of online dating site OkCupid. The site tapped him, without warning, and now he’s privy to private...

While many Americans may still be experiencing the near-record heat in 2012, others are experiencing plummeting temperatures.

A few months ago, Manchester City last season's Barclays Premier League Champions, announced that they were going to release all their match detail and make it available at no charge to fans and statisticians. The match ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dish Network, the nation's third largest pay-TV provider, has settled its four-year old lawsuit filed by Cablevision and AMC Networks over a high-definition programming agreement, according to statem...

The investor class is sitting on tons of cash, scared of market volatility, worried about the economy, about the high level of debt-- and not especially sanguine about low interest rates making stocks still look cheap.

Exit polls suggest nationalist parties in Spain's Basque Country have won regional elections, a poll seen as a key test of the government's austerity policy.

The average price for a gallon of regular gasoline in the United States fell more than 8 cents during the past two weeks, weighed down by the drop in crude oil prices and low seasonal demand.

Dow component Caterpillar Inc. will kick start another busy week of corporate earnings with about 140 S&P 500 companies slated to announce quarterly results.

It pays to be beautiful, but it may not pay as much as it should. That’s the contention in a $20 million class-action suit against some of New York’s top modeling and advertising agencies, including Ford Mo...

John Harris wants a Campaign to Protect Urban England to fight for the character and diversity of our towns (15 October). But CPRE already supports the direction he advocates: for a genuinely democratic local planning sy...

Your analysis of the large-scale tax avoidance undertaken by some operating in Britain (UK urged to curb global firms' profit moves, 17 October) was a helpful reminder that we are not all "in it together". However, the p...

Halting the government's programme to shrink the state will not resolve the other underlying problems To get a sizable protest out in central London in the middle of rainy autumn is no easy feat. It requires mobilisation...

America today urgently needs a 21st-century Henry George -- a thinker who embraces the wealth-creating power of capitalism, but squarely faces the inequity of its current manifestation.

The Takeover Panel is set to launch a review of its controversial "Cadbury law" amid growing concerns that the new regime is stifling a healthy takeover market.

The United Arab Emirates has only about eight  million people, a tiny fraction of the United States.  Yet when it comes to business and jobs, it has outperformed much of the world in the past few years. Hence, t...

LAS VEGAS -- Elizabeth Alvisar is exactly the sort of voter Mitt Romney needs. A victim of the brutal economy in this swing state, the...

Maybe it was the financial crisis, or maybe it was the constant flood of stories about investors pulling money out of the stock market. But here’s another one: investors have pulled money out of stock funds for mo...

And I’m not alone. Even the Wall Street Journal agrees. Poor grammar and writing can be the death of an aspiring career Poor grammar and writing is an epidemic in the workplace. While the era of social media an...

• Arrangement will allow exit from troubled joint venture TNK-BP • Rosneft could become world's biggest oil company • BP to be its second largest stakeholder after Russian state BP is preparing to annou...

Populations of some types of birds in North America have been plummeting, but gardeners can do their part to help stem the decline.