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If there's one business in Britain that's bouncy, it's hair extensions – sales are up to £60m a year and growing. But underneath all that hair there's a global tale of exploitation Graham Wake is hardly looking...

News Corp deal would leave Penguin's reputation in tatters, says co-author of book on downfall of News of the World Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, described by Labour MP Tom Watson as a "toxic institution", could soo...

It's been a six-month David and Goliath fight – and now there's quiet celebration on the proudly independent Devon high street as coffee giant decides to bow out Friday was market day in Totnes and in spite of the...

Whether it’s a hurricane, earthquake or tornado, here are some simple ways to prepare your home.

How many more of these "bipartisan" deals to block new job creation now while raising government spending in the future has Congress made to get rid of Obama?

BEIJING (Reuters) - The roots of Toyota Motor Corp's China troubles run far deeper than the anti-Japan protests that have swept the country, stretching back to the 2008 launch of the Yaris subcompact -- a spectacular flo...

We don't have to quit our jobs en masse to break the logjam and get human energy moving at work. We only have to notice the albatross on the table and say something about it. We only have to bring ourselves to work, a li...

(Reuters) - Demand for corporate jets has begun to recover from a post-recession low and is likely to rise over the next decade, with $250 billion worth of new aircraft delivered by 2022, according to a forecast by Honey...

SEOUL (Reuters) - The first payouts from South Korea's state pension fund only started in 2008, but faced with the fastest ageing population among developed nations and one of the lowest birthrates, the country needs to ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Amidst our growing love affair with the tablet, spare a thought for its increasingly shelfbound sibling: the e-reader.

Ed Miliband needs a clear economic alternative. His emphasis should not be on regulating business, but on democratising it When you're in opposition, good news can be bad news. Slightly better figures on growth, on emplo...

We start the week of Halloween with the personal income and spending report on Monday and finish with the October jobs report on Friday -- just four days before the U.S. general elections. Economists' projections point t...

Timeshare mogul David Siegel's letter to his employees urging them to vote Romney is just the latest in a string of recent anti-Obama invective from his fellow one-percenters.

The World Series. For decades it was America’s premier sporting event, and it remains a compelling coda to the longest regular season in professional sports. Here are five of the best World Series ever played.

The East Coast scrambles to batten down the hatches for “monster” storm Hurricane Sandy, as states of emergency are declared from North Carolina to Maine.

Former deputy PM's economic review likely to suggest more controls on British mergers but plan may face EU opposition Lord Heseltine, the former Tory deputy prime minister who has been commissioned by George Osborne to u...

Stock markets are supposed to be efficient. Rational actors continually process data in a methodical way and spit out the appropriate price. But today, the...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hess Corp said on Sunday it would begin to cut rates at its 70,000 barrel per day refinery in Port Reading, New Jersey, at 6 p.m. EDT ahead of Hurricane Sandy.

LONDON (Reuters) - The last employment report before the U.S. presidential election is likely to have something for everyone - for those bullish and bearish on the economy and for Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

Newer drugs fall short of hopes and cost too much, say experts who pledge to improve care in poorer countries Progress against cancer is stalling, with the latest targeted cancer drugs failing to live up to expectations ...

SYDNEY/CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia risks losing an opportunity to become a farmyard for Asia, as growing unease over foreigners buying rural land threatens to provoke protectionist policies that may deter much needed ...

In my world as an investor, I find entrepreneurs who can’t let go of any task.  For various self-declared reasons, they alone can complete a given assignment.  Or even worse, they micro manage someone elseâ...