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As many as 500 billion hungry insects are eating their way across the island, destroying about 100,000 metric tons of vegetation daily.

The social networking service will provide French prosecutors with data including geo-coordinates where alleged hate speech was posted.

The former Treasury secretary is reportedly courting senators in his bid to replace Ben Bernanke.

Get ready for another quarter of weak earnings growth and low expectations.

The 0.8% jump was led by a 7.2% surge in wholesale gasoline prices. Meanwhile, the core PPI rate rose just 0.2%.

Snowden, who has spent about three weeks in the airport's transit zone, is still seeking asylum.

The nation's finance minister outlined the current analysis on the likely GDP growth range for the year.

The split between Syria’s Islamists and moderates -- both fighting Assad loyalists -- just became considerably wider.

Chinese regulators will hand over audit records of U.S.-listed Chinese companies to the SEC, to assist investigations into accounting fraud.

Bullish institutional investors will try to make the case that no tapering of Fed stimulus will occur before 2014.

Canada is the most beloved country on the map, according to the Reputation Institute’s new 2013 RepTrak report.

A weak rupee and rising US demand helped Indian IT giant post better-than-expected Q1 earnings

The family tree of the royal baby shows that the future heir to the British throne is related to Hollywood royalty as well.

Delaying the decision process could make it hard for the U.S. to compete with nations that are already building export facilities, a report states.

The man most wanted by the U.S. government may be on a Russian flight to Havana. Except for one small thing: He just isn't.

Greg Morcroft, senior money editor at the International Business Times, discusses the psychological effects Bernanke has on the global financial markets.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke hinted that the central bank's current quantitative easing policy will not end anytime soon.

The percentage of people who want more immigrants is growing, but still nowhere near 50 percent.

Defendant appeared in an Orange County courthouse on Thursday but did not enter a plea. Next court date: July 29.

Doreen Mogavero, CEO of Mogavero Lee & Co., discusses how federal budget cuts are affecting the labor force, small biz and baby boomers.

Al Jazeera America has named the first four anchors set to present the news when network launches in August.