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London-based design firm BERG created these two 3D maps of Manhattan, which look like a scene out of "Inception" (via Curbed NY). Called "Here & There," the horizon-less maps make it appear as if the city is curling up a...

SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL: The Russell 2000, an index of small-company stocks, put the Dow Jones industrial average to shame. It closed the week up 2.2 percent, more than double the Dow's gain.

AVON PARK, Fla. -- Florida's citrus industry is grappling with the most serious threat in its history: a bacterial disease with no cure that has infected all 32 of the state's citrus-growing counties. Although the diseas...

FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors. A New Study Finds That Most Advisors That Practiced In 2008 Suffer From PTSD (Investment News) A n...

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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Boniface Mwangi's hands trembled as he typed a Twitter post about his intention to heckle Kenya's top union leader at a rally attended by Kenya's new president.

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(Reuters) - SoftBank Corp has asked investment banks not to finance a rival bid for Sprint Nextel Corp by Dish Network Corp, saying this could hurt the banks' chances of gaining a role in the highly anticipated public of...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The federal government has approved Utah to become the first state to have a dual-model health insurance exchange in which the state and the federal government divide responsibilities.

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"Big Banks Push Against Tighter Rules," says the headline in this piece from the Wall Street Journal. 'Twas ever thus, but now, "big banks" are...

WASHINGTON -- Years of progress fighting cholesterol might have stalled with the recession, says a huge study from one of the country's largest health laboratories....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government has sold another piece of its stake in General Motors Co.

Legal experts are calling it "the biggest global threat to the internet." It's called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and it will essentially criminalize free use of any website that uses copyrighted material. YouTube, Fa...

Professor Krugman keeps fighting a straw-man argument. The real issue isn't a choice between stimulus and austerity. After all, we've had nearly five years of quite remarkable monetary and fiscal policy stimulus.

Regulators say they have closed banks in North Carolina and Georgia, bringing the number of U.S. bank failures to 12 this year.

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is giving the federal personnel director six months to submit a strategy to address gender-based pay disparities in the U.S....

Dubai's reputation for extravagance now applies to its police as well. The force has been building up its vehicle fleet recently, and it's not worrying about cost, adding a Lamborghini, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, Aston Mart...

SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL: The Russell 2000, an index of small-company stocks, put the Dow Jones industrial average to shame. It closed the week up 2.2 percent, more than double the Dow's gain.

Guest Post Tesla made it clear that being a great entrepreneur -- one who commercialized a critical standard that powers innovation 125 years later -- isn't necessarily about the money.

A n ISS spokesperson told press the switch was made because ISS astronauts and cosmonauts needed an operating system "that was stable and reliable." Ouch!

EarthRisk Technologies has developed a new model for predicting extreme weather events based on 60 years of data and 82 billion calculations.