Starbucks Corp has ambitious expansion plans in China, but like any big new emerging market there are teething problems, not least of which is that customers love it so much they stay for hours and hours and sometimes don't even buy a drink.
Warren Buffett, the chairman of Berkshire-Hathaway, has revealed that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
The Toronto Star's amateur athletics and Olympics reporter Randy Starkman died at the age of 51 on Monday at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto.
One hundred years have passed and there have been larger maritime disasters, but for reasons unique to the ship, the tragedy of the RMS Titanic continues to be a part of the popular culture’s consciousness.
Good corporate earnings, falling Spanish interest rates and an upward revision in the International Monetary Fund's outlook for the U.S. economy on Tuesday offset a weak housing report to lift equities and industrial commodities.
The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday appeared to be inching toward a deal on boosting its financial firepower with Japan, Sweden and Denmark committing a total of $77 billion to help contain the euro zone debt crisis.
Reserves of the hard to extract, unconventional gas deposits could exceed 1,000 trillion cubic feet, experts now believe, ranking the UK alongside China, the U.S. and Argentina
Romney said the controversy was the most wounding of his campaign.
The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday raised its projection of growth in the U.S. gross domestic product to 2.1 percent this year and 2.4 percent next year, from 1.7 percent in 2011.
Japan said on Tuesday it will provide $60 billion in loans to the International Monetary Fund, becoming the first non-European nation to commit money to boost the fund's financial firepower to contain the euro zone debt crisis.
Japan said on Tuesday it will provide $60 billion in loans to the International Monetary Fund, becoming the first non-European nation to commit money to boost the fund's financial firepower to contain the euro zone debt crisis.
Canada's Endeavour Silver Corp (EDR.TO) is buying two of AuRico Gold's (AUQ.TO) silver and gold mining interests in Mexico for up to $250 million in cash and stock to expand its footprint in the country.
In the US, your fast food probably comes with extra salt, like it or not. A new study shows that the same products at chains like McDonald's can vary wildly in sodium content depending on what country you're in.
The meeting ended on a frosty note Sunday, with the leaders of Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua all vowing to boycott next year's meeting if Cuba remains banned.
Following a successful debut in the UK, Roku is releasing its Roku 2 XD and flagship Roku 2 XS in Canada. The devices offer easy access to multimedia services including Netflix, Crackle, Pandora and even games such as Angry Birds.
Situated 5,000 meters (16,404 feet) high in the Chilean Andes, the world's largest and most expensive ground-based astronomy project has just begun its monumental search in hopes of answering some of humanity's biggest questions.
In the 100 years since the Titanic sinking, how much has actually changed in the cruise ship industry?
Lockheed Martin Corp on Friday won a $259 million contract adding two more F-35 fighter jets to a fifth batch of jets being purchased by the U.S. military, boosting the size of that order to 32 jets, the Pentagon and Lockheed officials said.
An unusual large number of pilots of Air Canada called in sick on Friday, cancelling and delaying half a hundred flights in Toronto and Montreal.
Bruce Springsteen fans will be happy for a two-for-one announcement Friday, as the tour dates for his 2012 concert tour were released in addition to a new video for Death To My Hometown. The 2012 eight-city Wrecking Ball tour will kick off on August 18 in Boston and finishes in New Jersey on September 22.
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives will revive efforts to quickly advance the stalled Keystone XL crude oil pipeline and insist that approval for the project be part of a long-term deal to fund highways and other infrastructure.
A stronger firewall is needed to protect the world economy from Europe's debt crisis, but the International Monetary Fund may not need as much money as it thought just a few months ago, the head of the global lender said on Thursday.
