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The last deep-pit coal mine in the U.K. plans to shut its doors next week, heralding the end of a centuries-old industry that helped fuel the industrial revolution and build the British Empire.

The old model of financing and organizing the Olympic Games is on its last legs in Rio de Janeiro ahead of the 2016 edition. Without real reform, the Olympics will die a broken, pathetic, and forgotten death.

The adventures you see in "Star Wars" may happen in a galaxy far, far away, but it turns out that it's not all that difficult to visit the sites where the movies were filmed.  With "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" set to...

When it comes to corporate innovation, history will be kinder if leaders take the time to write it themselves--but before it actually unfolds, not after. "Future histories" provide a new way of thinking about the long-te...

Residents in some public-housing units in Worcester, Massachusetts, must now get a job or go back to school. If they don’t, they’ll be evicted.

Pamela Paquin's source for fashion is either "tres chic" or will make you shriek. …

U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate fell below $35 a barrel as last week's bearish sentiment continues to blight the oil markets.

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Vandals have damaged a building housing Facebook's offices in Hamburg, smashing glass, throwing paint and spraying "Facebook dislike" on a wall...

After junk-bond prices posted their largest drop since 2011 on Friday, investors say they are bracing for another difficult week, likely featuring hectic trading and large splits between buy and sell orders.

Health2.0, started in California in 2007, is the global conference introducing the latest technologies and advanced solutions in the medical and health sector. The conference washeld in Japan for the first time over a tw...

Regulators have long worried about the theoretical risk that bond funds holding illiquid assets could be vulnerable to something like a bank run. Suddenly, that doesn't seem just theoretical.

The Force hasn't exactly been with Electronic Arts since its launch of "Star Wars Battlefront." But, like the movie series it is based on, there is more to the story.

VB WEBINAR: Nancy Nardin, David Brierley, Mike Weinberg and Donal Daly are talking how you can take your sales team performance from meh to WOW. Hit this webinar on demand and learn essential secrets on maximizing sales ...

Should You Go Into Business With Your Spouse?

I love writing my end-of-year column. For one thing, it’s fun to hash out this year’s brand winners and losers with 400 or so of my fiercely opinionated colleagues. And secondly, who doesn’t like to play armchair q...

The AES Corporation (AES) approved a 10% increase in the Company's quarterly common stock dividend, from $0.10 per share to $0.11 per share, beginning in the first quarter of 2016.

Yahoo today announced that it has released the source code for its Anthelion web crawler designed for parsing structured data from HTML pages under an open source license. Web crawling is at the very core of Yahoo, even ...

NEW YORK (Reuters, Andrew Chung) — Samsung took to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday in a last-ditch effort to pare back the more than $548 million in damages it must pay Apple for infringing the patents and designs of ...

First Solar, the largest U.S. solar manufacturer, provided relatively conservative guidance for 2016, projecting modest revenue growth (13% at the midpoint), flattish shipments (4% growth) and contracting gross margins (...

Historically companies facing food poisoning outbreaks have recovered quickly without a long-term impact. In 1993 fast food restaurant Jack In The Box had a major E.coli outbreak in which four children died, and in the q...

On December 7, Alibaba launched the SMILE platform in India through which the company plans to offer financing, logistics and technology solutions to 10 million SMEs (small and medium enterprises) in the country. Alibaba...