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Canada's National Energy Board said on Thursday that any company that wants to drill for oil and gas in Arctic waters will need to demonstrate it has the capacity to sink a relief well in the same drilling season to cope with possible well blowouts

Torex Gold Resources said it signed long-term lease agreements with land holders for construction and mining at its Morelos gold project in Mexico, paving the way for commercial production at the site.

Though he continues to lag in national polls, Rick Perry is launching a massive comeback effort in Iowa, which will hold the nation's first caucuses on Jan. 3. Here is an overview of his positions.

ConocoPhillips stole the show at Wednesday's Gulf of Mexico Lease sale with the largest bid an oil company has ever made for a single tract of Gulf real estate.

Congress passed new legislation on Tuesday that would give the Federal Communications Commission the authority to auction off television companies' broadband spectrum, so it can be reallocated for mobile and internet companies.

The U.S. Department of the Interior on Wednesday will open up the first sale of Gulf Coast leases. The offering has garnered a larger list of players than during the previous sale.

Mexican police arrested Los Zetas boss Raul Lucio Hernandez Lechuga -- also known as Z-16 and El Lucky -- on Sunday.

ConocoPhillip's Bohai Bay oil spill may be over, but like its British counterpart in the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. super major's Chinese subsidiary has not seen the end of litigation in the wake of its Chinese spill.

A simple new online music service will launch across Europe and North America this week aimed at the millions who like music but struggle with the technology to find and listen to it.

Canadian miner Endeavour Silver Corp said it has discovered two high-grade silver-gold zones at its Guanajuato mine in Mexico and expects a substantial increase in reserves and resources at the mine at the year-end.

Senate Republicans Monday blocked Mari Carmen Aponte, President Obama's choice to be ambassador to El Salvador, stating there were unresolved questions about whether Cuban intelligence officials tried to recruit her as a spy in the 1990s.

Ron Paul's 2012 presidential aspirations are hurt by his foreign policy stance. Or so say the polls.

The Virgen de Guadalupe (Our Lady of Guadalupe) annual pilgrimage to A Mountain a.k.a. Tortugas Mountain in southern New Mexico continued on Sunday as more than 1,000 people embarked from the village of Tortugas to the top of the mountain to pay respects to Guadalupe's altar, according to the Las Cruces Sun-News.

People across the globe are increasingly concerned about unemployment according to a survey conducted by BBC World Service.

Excavating lost Mayan ruins or traveling to space are normally the stuff of adventure novels. But for Facebook employees, these and other lavish dreams are moving closer to reality as the world's No. 1 online social network prepares for a blockbuster IPO.

A strong magnitude-6.5 earthquake rocked Mexico Saturday night, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake is believed to have killed at least two people, Reuters reported.

A powerful magnitude-6.7 earthquake shook Mexico on Saturday, knocking out lights in parts of the capital and sending people rushing into the streets.

De la Cruz, who was also known as Don Trino, was the leader of the Nahua indigenous people.

Despite the cold and many other potential hazards, naked from the ankle down is the way Anna Toombs likes it, and she gets plenty of catcalls in the street as a result.

As people continue to migrate away from rural areas and into cities, cities that are growing to devour the land around it, the numbers of people living in slums, shanty towns and informal settlements are skyrocketing.

Ford Motor Co recalled nearly 129,000 Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan sedans in the United States citing a risk that the wheels may fall off, U.S. safety regulators said on Friday.