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After an emergency Parliamentary session Saturday, Russia approved President Vladimir Putin’s request to send troops into the turbulent nation of Ukraine. The move came after Russia had already started taking hold of ...

Italy needs audacious investment in education and infrastructure if it is to embrace the generational change it needs The brash, 39-year-old Matteo Renzi is Italy's third unelected prime minister since November 2011. Mar...

A group of men dressed in black and carrying knives attacked people at Kunming Railway Station in southern China in what Chinese state television is calling a “violent terror attack.”  Approximately 27 people are de...

A “Miami. See it like a native” poster deemed too racy 35 years ago now is being censored by Facebook.

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The National Basketball Association has asked LeBron James of the Miami Heat to trade the fearsome black carbon-fiber mask he wore on Thursday to protect his broken nose for a clear mask. While black masks are not banned...

In a series of exclusive interviews, Business Insider spoke with members of Al Shabaab — the newly emboldened Islamic militant group that attacked the Westgate mall and repelled a raid by SEAL Team Six — to ask how t...

Painting peak oil by the numbers.

In a golden decade for American film, the Oscars encompassed the gritty, unadulterated fun of the 1970s. The red carpet fashion, the political statements, and the backstage romances stole the spotlight away from the actu...

Lulu is an app that has officially gone mainstream: one in four college students use it according to its founder Alexandra Chong. On Lulu, women are rating the men they know and giving them scores. There's nothing the me...

Earlier this week, Warren Buffett gave Fortune Magazine an exclusive clip of his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. The excerpt included "fundamentals of investing" that Buffett had identified. Fortune had...

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Federal and state banking regulators issued an enforcement action against Sunstate Bank of Miami in January, according to a report released on Friday.

Over the past 15 years, something palpable has begun to change at big companies, Tony Schwartz writes. They are awakening to a larger perspective and a bigger view of the role they play in the world.     

Neither Zack Hahn nor his fellow James Rumsey Technical Institute students were the least bit frustrated as they considered how to continue improving the robot they designed — a labor of love that recently took top hon...

Britain is in a global race for science investment and we can't afford to slip behind The chancellor of the exchequer is very supportive of science: he has identified it as a "personal priority". That is good news for th...

In the new book The EROS Equation, relationship expert Eve Eschner Hogan offers a set of strategies that can help strengthen good relationships and can help strained relationships (whether work-related or personal) to me...

Standard Life and Legal and General among insurers to slash maturity values despite the FTSE being a near record high The millions of people who have clung on to mortgage endowment policies received more miserable news t...

Culture Secretary Maria Miller announces a £2m support fund to get flood-affected tourism businesses "back on their feet".

Mt. Gox, once the dominant exchange for bitcoin trading, on Friday said more than $470 million of the virtual currency vanished from its digital coffers, kicking into high gear a search for the missing money by victims a...

Apple sold more than $1 billion of Apple TV set-top boxes in 2013 and is investing heavily in the next generation of products, CEO Tim Cook said at the company's...

They're split on splitting PayPal from eBay. PayPal's colorful co-founders, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, are on opposite sides of the fence when it comes to billionaire investor Carl Icahn's...