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A new government study published in the Annals of Family Medicine shows that those who drink hot tea or coffee are about twice as likely as non-drinkers to ward off methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, in their nostrils.

Starbucks Corp on Monday won dismissal of a lawsuit by former assistant store managers in New York who accused the world's largest coffee chain of cheating them out of customer tips.

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Styrene has been added to the list of possible human carcinogens, according to a report by the government. The 12th Report on Carcinogens was put together by the National Toxicology Program of the National Institutes of Health.

The Netherlands' famous marijuana coffee shops are soon to become private clubs for Dutch citizens only.

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The Dutch government announced today that by end of this year the country's famed marijuana-dispensing coffee shops would start to close to tourists and be open only to Dutch citizens.

According to the study by Harvard School of Public Health, drinking more than six cups of coffee daily can reduce the risk of getting prostate cancer significantly.

Starbucks has stopped buying coffee for the moment as it waits for coffee prices to pull back from a 34-year high, John Culver, president of Starbucks Coffee International, was quoted on Friday as saying.

Starbucks expects coffee prices to pull back from a 34-year high, John Culver, president of Starbucks Coffee International, was quoted on Friday as saying.

Consumption of coffee will actually decrease the risk of developing a certain kind of breast cancer according to what Swedish researchers found. What they did is that they compared the consumption of coffee in postmenopausal women diagnosed with cancer and women of the same age with no cancer.

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Glu Mobile, FEI, AXT, Silicon Graphics International, Myriad Genetics, Planar Systems, Telestone Technologies, Avis Budget Group, and Sino Clean Energy.

Starbucks Corp warned that rising fuel and dairy costs will take a bigger chunk out of earnings than previously anticipated, and offered a full-year forecast that disappointed Wall Street.

At its annual meeting, Starbucks Corp. (NYSE: SBUX) said it would offer its own value oriented single-serve machine with Courtesy Products.

Starbucks Coffee Co said on Friday it would raise the price of its packaged coffee by an average of 12 percent after its Chief Executive Howard Schultz once again blamed speculators for pushing coffee prices higher.

Starbucks Corp on Friday raised its price for grocery packaged coffee by 12 percent, on average, due to still climbing coffee commodity prices.

Starbucks Coffee Co Chief Executive Howard Schultz on Friday once again laid the blame for surging coffee prices at the feet of speculators, saying his chain had no problem getting beans.

Kraft Foods said on Thursday it upped the U.S. prices for many of its coffees this week, raising Maxwell House by 22 percent, the biggest of four hikes in the past year as roasters face soaring markets.

High-frequency traders have become a convenient scapegoat as markets for sugar, coffee, cocoa and cotton react to tight supplies and surging demand, the president of ICE Futures US said on Wednesday.