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Since the Rana Plaza building collapse killed more than 1,100 people in April, retailers have faced mounting pressure to improve safety at Bangladesh garment factories and to sever ties with manufacturers that don't meas...

The following image, found by Chinese military aviation expert Andreas Rupprecht, shows the shape of what could be a future Chinese stealth bomber plane. True or false? A model plane or just the base of a future radar ev...

LONDON (AP) -- Stock markets edged lower on Wednesday as investors worried about the future of monetary stimulus by two major central banks, the Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan.

Damien Hirst's spot paintings are not all the same. Sure, colorful spots on 1,365 canvases may start to sound repetitive, but don't worry! They're all totally original. Each work in the series has spots of a consistent s...

The iHome iBT4 boombox brings you back to high school days, at least for me.

CEOs' pay doesn't drop in response to bad news.

After being hammered hard by the real estate downturn and the recession, the condo market west of Boston is showing signs of life again.

Construction has begun again on the largest private home in America, reports CNBC's Robert Frank.

The Festival season has kicked off around Europe - so many of them that you could pass the whole summer simply crossing countries and trying as many as you can fit in your vacation schedule. Or tick the boxes of those th...

HOUSTON (AP) -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency is refusing to provide additional money to help rebuild the small Texas town where a deadly fertilizer plant explosion leveled numerous homes and a school, and kill...

Hundt may want to debate whether it is better to have the Koch Brothers or Rupert Murdoch owning the Tribune newspaper chain. I say neither.

Duke Energy Carolinas customers would see their bills go up an average of 4.5 percent starting this fall, under a proposed agreement between the company and regulators outlined Wednesday.

ESPN personality Howie Schwab was fired today as part of the company's mass layoffs. Schwab hosted a quiz show called "Stump the Schwab" a few years ago, and has worked on a handful of shows since. After he was fired, he...

WASHINGTON

The Boston Bruins and Chicago Blackhawks are set to face off in a much-awaited Stanley Cup Final, which kicks off on Wednesday night. The original-six showdown is a fan's dream, but the exciting series likely precedes sa...

The U.S. House passed legislation Wednesday that would exempt the trading of derivatives from federal oversight if it occurs outside the United States.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- U.S. prosecutors announced fraud and other charges Wednesday against eight alleged members of an international cybercrime ring that the government said hacked into the computers of more than a dozen ...

After raking in a sweet amount of change from their lemonade stand, three budding philanthropists decided to give it all away. The generous tykes --...

Here's what we're reading/watching today: 1) NASA offers up what is probably one of the most beautiful mental (and perhaps actual) images you'll encounter this week. The space agency has discovered tracks on the Martian ...

By Robert D. Kaplan, Chief Geopolitical Analyst at Stratfor

Opening some banana boxes from Colombia last week, staff at a supermarket in Aarhus, Denmark, got quite a surprise when they discovered a hefty drug...

Rupert Murdoch's now infamous News of the World (NoTW) may mostly be remembered for phone-hacking a murdered schoolgirl, but the late British tabloid had another memorable trait -- an incredible thirst for scoops. Now it...