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You'd be hard-pressed, these days, to find a psychologist who doesn't think we'd be better off if we spent more time in nature. The problem, for those of us who live in cities and work at desks, is the "time" part: th...

Just another day for Barcelona and Lionel Messi of Spain's La Liga as the Argentinian striker scored two more gorgeous goals. Messi now has 42 in La Liga this season and 55 overall. David Villa's magnificent assist on ea...

Maybe I'm biased. The Marine Corps actually taught me, among other things, photography. Paid me for it, in fact. I served four years as a Combat Correspondent — a Marine photojournalist — and saw a lot of p...

There's lots of speculation that the auto industry is the next field to be shaken up by technology. Google's self-driving cars are one of the more visible facets in this area, but you don't need to buy a brand new vehicl...

The figure for the state-backed bank takes the millionaires total at UK lenders to more than 750, Sky News learns.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- An undercover video that showed California cows struggling to stand as they were prodded to slaughter by forklifts led to the largest...

Institutions prepare for a brave new world in which cheap remote-controlled airplanes will be ubiquitous in civilian air space.

ATHENS/MADRID (Reuters) - Europeans' faith in the safety of their savings has been shaken by a levy on Cypriot bank deposits to pay for a bailout, even though there was no sign of a rush to withdraw cash in Madrid or Dub...

George Osborne has pulled off a stunning confidence trick: he has bamboozled people into thinking he is fighting tax dodgers Chancellors of the exchequer have never been entirely straight about their tinkering with the t...

PARIS (Reuters) - Europe's Airbus has landed a major aircraft order from Indonesian budget carrier Lion Air, sources familiar with the matter said, breaking the grip of its U.S. rival Boeing at one of the world's fastest...

The interesting question is not what George Osborne will say on Wednesday, but whether Ed Balls dares set out his alternative A statement of the blindingly obvious, to start. For all the talk of moves on childcare, fu...

Cypriots tell of shock finding government had seized up to 10% of savings – despite promise deposits would be safe Under the palm trees of Larnaca's waterfront promenade, George Kyprou was staring out to sea and s...

3,000 military personnel and 250 civil servants protected from tax imposed as part of island's bailout by EU and IMF The savings of British military personnel and civil servants in Cyprus are to be protected against a ba...

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - China will speed up reforms to open up its capital account now that People's Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan has been reappointed, a senior central bank official said on Sunday.

Owning a cellphone on one of the biggest providers can sometimes feel like an unhappy relationship, with companies frequently taking advantage of customers.

The big euro news this weekend is playing out in Cyprus where the newly-elected government agreed to a 10 billion euro bailout. One of the conditions of the bailout is a controversial one-off tax of 9.9% on all bank depo...

Owners of Sun, Telegraph and Daily Mail say they may set up own watchdog if government opts for statutory underpinning Three of the country's biggest newspaper groups, including the owners of the Daily Mail and the Sun, ...

BOSTON -- At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, faculty fret about the future of the school's Plasma Science and Fusion Center. Thirty miles away, administrators...

ST. LOUIS -- Carmen Ricotta knows being a college graduate could mean higher pay and better job opportunities, and it's not like St. Louis Community...

Goldman Sachs is out with a reaction to the Cyprus bailout deal negotiated over the weekend, the most controversial part of which entails a haircut on bank deposits, something that hasn't yet been seen until now in the e...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The Bank for International Settlements raised concern that buoyant financial markets are getting too dependent on monetary and fiscal stimulus, discouraging governments from pushing through reforms.

Public Relations can be a very powerful promotional tool but if you don't do it for a living, it can also be immensely daunting. Part of the reason people often buy costly advertising is for its simplicity: