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Not one country in the world has successfully eliminated its gender gap, according to a recent report from the World Economic Forum (WEF). But while the scope of gender inequality has narrowed in some countries, in other...

Thought Thanksgiving was about coming together with family and being grateful for what you have? Think again. It seems the holiday is becoming more about shopping. With more and more retailers choosing to open their door...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- We all buy things we need and subsequently use.  In this digital and mobile age, it's easier than ever to buy anything you could possibly imagine... with almost everything being shipped right to ...

The Born Free Foundation a global organization devoted to saving endangered species started from the 1966 film Born Free. Where Virginia played a conservationist raising an orphaned lion cub name Elsa. Through the film, ...

Doing your laundry has never been more effective, or efficient.          

Elbowing their way into malls this weekend for dolls, televisions and reindeer sweaters, shoppers probably will give little thought to how the future holiday presents got to retail shelves.

The United States is quickly losing it’s appeal to the world’s most talented immigrants, according to a new study. Researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington culled a large dataset from LinkedIn and fou...

Ever weighed the decision between buying a Porsche 918 Spyder and a home in Berkeley, Calif.?          

Weekend Investor: Cardholders can now earn more cash back, get deeper discounts and earn free travel faster.

The City of London doesn't have an especially severe cultural problem, says Lord Mayor Alan Yarrow, maintaining that any such notion has been planted by rival cities that want to win back business from the U.K.'s financi...

When will you ever learn not to buy clothing for her? Anyway, your annual trip to the returns counter might be a bit more high tech this year.

OPEC's decision to maintain production could actually benefit Exxon and Chevron.

Economic prospects are flagging across Europe, Japan and big emerging markets such as India, a turn that presents fresh challenges to the relatively robust U.S. economy.

Demonstrations continue in Ferguson and spread across the country as protesters targets stores and railroad stations.

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WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) -- Police say a Pennsylvania woman chased her boyfriend around a dining room and stabbed him in the chest because he started eating Thanksgiving dinner while she slept off a bender.

With "Marco Polo," its lavish new series, the streaming service is placing one of its biggest bets yet on global expansion.

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- At some point in many of our lives, we've tried to complete a collection of something. There's just something about having an incomplete set of collectibles that triggers this desire in our brain...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has abandoned a rule that hindered gold imports into the country, a rule that had became a primary cause of smuggling as well. The 80-20 rule, as it was often called, required traders to r...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) may be gearing up for the launch of the highly anticipated Apple Watch, but the tablet community is excited because of some other reason; lubeprints of Apple's much speculated "iPad Pro" or iPad ...

The New Yorker has an amazing extended profile of German Chancellor Angela Merkel in its December issue, and we've identified some of the gems.  In office, Merkel has gone from being viewed as too pro-market for German ...

For the last few years, I have been recommending that users upgrade their systems with a solid state drive, or SSD.  If you’ve for a system that’s still chugging along with a hard disk drive at the heart of its stor...