Rogers Communications is applying to Canadian authorities to open its own banking unit, enabling the telecommunications company to offer its own credit cards.
NASA mission managers in Houston are currently working on contingency plans, as both Russia and the U.S. have said that temporarily abandoning the $100 billion ISS is a possibility.
Silver mining companies settled mixed Tuesday, while the price of the white metal itself gave up ground to fears that global economic activity may be slowing.
The global economy is unlikely to fall back into recession but there are risks, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Tuesday.
The maids of The Help didn't take the Labor Day weekend off. The surprise summer hit held firm at the top of the domestic box office for the third straight week with $19 million in ticket sales.
Vermont residents, already max-out with clean-up and repair work in dozens of villages/towns from Hurricane Irene/Tropical Storm Irene, unfortunately are about to be hit with up to another 4 inches of rain in the next two days on already swollen rivers/streams and saturated ground.
Group of Seven financial leaders, worried about risks to global growth, are likely to agree this week to keep monetary policy accommodative, slow fiscal consolidation in countries where that is possible and implement structural reforms, a G7 source said.
New Jersey is not usually the face of natural disasters. But it became just that on Sunday, when President Obama visited the state to survey the damage caused by Hurricane Irene.
Bieber is a name about town--you know his name, you know his face, you know all his life via Twitter and the endless surveillance thanks to paparazzi. It is as if Justin Bieber is not even a person... only a name. A singer. An idol. However, the young star is actually a 17 year old kid from Ontario, Canada.
A California solar company said on Friday it plans to build a $600 million silicon factory in Mississippi that will be backed by $75 million in incentives from the state.
Canadian authorities are investigating employees of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc for possible corruption involving a $1.2 billion (739.8 million pounds) World Bank bridge project in Bangladesh, a bank spokesman said on Friday.
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The International Monetary Fund, in a report summarizing its assessment of potential spillover impacts of global economic policy, suggested on Friday that debt sustainability was a key area of concern.
President Grover Cleveland established Labor Day as a national holiday in the hopes of being re-elected
Katia weakened slightly to a tropical storm, but could still head towards the U.S. coast as a major hurricane. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Lee is expected to hit the Louisiana Gulf Coast this weekend.
Tropical Depression 13, which continued to move toward the Gulf Coast on Friday, has winds up to 35 miles per hour, but the region can't rest easy. The storm may not be packing hurricane-force winds when it hits New Orleans, but it could drench the city with up to 20 inches of rain and cause severe flooding.
Nobody on the road, nobody on the beach; you can feel it at the box office, the summer's out of reach.
A 4.2 magnitude earthquake hit Los Angeles, California Thursday around 1:45 p.m. The quake was felt across Los Angeles County, but so far no damage has been reported.
New findings from an analysis of 30,000-year-old bacteria show that antibiotic resistance is nothing new, rather a widespread natural phenomenon that somehow preceded the breakthroughs of modern medicine.
It is a mistake to focus just on a hurricane's wind speed. Of the most catastrophic hurricanes in United States history, the majority were so devastating because of the flooding caused by a combination of heavy rainfall and storm surges, not because of the winds themselves.
For nearly two decades, global corporations have increasingly shifted trillions of dollars in worldwide profits to low-tax countries across the Caribbean, Europe and Asia to reduce their tax bills and maximize the bottom line.
If a new tropical storm gains momentum and becomes a hurricane, it could wreak havoc on oil production in the Gulf of Mexico.
