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You'd be hard-pressed, these days, to find a psychologist who doesn't think we'd be better off if we spent more time in nature. The problem, for those of us who live in cities and work at desks, is the "time" part: th...

Just another day for Barcelona and Lionel Messi of Spain's La Liga as the Argentinian striker scored two more gorgeous goals. Messi now has 42 in La Liga this season and 55 overall. David Villa's magnificent assist on ea...

Maybe I'm biased. The Marine Corps actually taught me, among other things, photography. Paid me for it, in fact. I served four years as a Combat Correspondent — a Marine photojournalist — and saw a lot of p...

There's lots of speculation that the auto industry is the next field to be shaken up by technology. Google's self-driving cars are one of the more visible facets in this area, but you don't need to buy a brand new vehicl...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- An undercover video that showed California cows struggling to stand as they were prodded to slaughter by forklifts led to the largest...

Institutions prepare for a brave new world in which cheap remote-controlled airplanes will be ubiquitous in civilian air space.

ATHENS/MADRID (Reuters) - Europeans' faith in the safety of their savings has been shaken by a levy on Cypriot bank deposits to pay for a bailout, even though there was no sign of a rush to withdraw cash in Madrid or Dub...

Another enterprising gamer has modified a classic title to reverse gender roles. This time, it's The Legend of Zelda.

PARIS (Reuters) - Europe's Airbus has landed a major aircraft order from Indonesian budget carrier Lion Air, sources familiar with the matter said, breaking the grip of its U.S. rival Boeing at one of the world's fastest...

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - China will speed up reforms to open up its capital account now that People's Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan has been reappointed, a senior central bank official said on Sunday.

Owning a cellphone on one of the biggest providers can sometimes feel like an unhappy relationship, with companies frequently taking advantage of customers.

The big euro news this weekend is playing out in Cyprus where the newly-elected government agreed to a 10 billion euro bailout. One of the conditions of the bailout is a controversial one-off tax of 9.9% on all bank depo...

BOSTON -- At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, faculty fret about the future of the school's Plasma Science and Fusion Center. Thirty miles away, administrators...

Goldman Sachs is out with a reaction to the Cyprus bailout deal negotiated over the weekend, the most controversial part of which entails a haircut on bank deposits, something that hasn't yet been seen until now in the e...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The Bank for International Settlements raised concern that buoyant financial markets are getting too dependent on monetary and fiscal stimulus, discouraging governments from pushing through reforms.

Public Relations can be a very powerful promotional tool but if you don't do it for a living, it can also be immensely daunting. Part of the reason people often buy costly advertising is for its simplicity:

An old buy-and-hold strategy is finding new fans among Treasury investors. Using a strategy called the rolldown, bond investors are purchasing longer-dated debt and planning to hold the securities for a few years.

The essence of the Cyprus bailout is that all bank depositors will be subject to a tax/confiscation/haircut/levy. As it currently stands, if you have over 100K euros in the bank, you'll pay a tax on of 9.9%. Under 100K e...

One of the giants of the French legal system was found dead near his private island in Brittany on Sunday morning. A suicide note was discovered at his home nearby. Olivier Metzner, 63, nicknamed the "gangsters' lawyer",...

The Federal Reserve will meet this week, and with the consensus that it will keep its ultra-loose monetary policy in place at least through year’s end, a hint that stimulus measures will be tapered sooner than lat...

A top International Monetary Fund official has begun several more weeks of talks with Egyptian officials over the country's economic reform program to secure a $4.8 billion loan. Click to Continue »

A previous version of this story, published March 15, misstated the extent of Vanguard’s response to Schwab’s lowering expenses on its ETFs.