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NATO widened its campaign to weaken Moammar Gadhafi’s regime with airstrikes on desert command centers and sea patrols to intercept ships, the military alliance said […]

American companies are on a hiring spree.
Businesses delivered a jolt of strength to the economy by creating 268,000 jobs in April, the biggest monthly total […]

Hewlett-Packard announced a major board of directors shuffle Thursday, with four members stepping down and five new directors joining the board.
The move comes […]

An official says an inland sea will surge across southeast Australia and threaten towns in its path for up to 10 more days.
The flooding that […]

The Bank of England will probably increase interest rates this year by the most since it gained independence in 1997 or face losing its credibility, […]

Bank of America is rolling out a pilot program in three states that will offer its customers menu of checking accounts with a variety of […]

Claims for jobless benefits dropped last week to the lowest level in two years, showing the U.S. labor market is taking a turn for the […]

Singapore’s economy probably returned to growth this quarter as manufacturing rebounded, putting the nation on course to surpass Malaysia’s output with the world’s second-fastest growth […]

The leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan were in the capital of gas-rich Turkmenistan Saturday to push forward on ambitions to build a pipeline across their […]

Google Inc. is far surpassing CEO Eric Schmidt's prediction that it would average one merger or acquisition a month this year.
The search giant has done […]