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Underwater operations have resumed aimed at readying the shipwrecked Costa Concordia for the removal of tons of oil from its tanks.
After days of stormy weather, seas off the Tuscan island of Giglio were calm enough Sunday to resume work.
But the Italian government office overseeing salvage and rescue operations said winds were increasing and that the […]
A Chicago zoo is mounting a campaign to stop a company from airing a Super Bowl Sunday commercial featuring mischievous suit-and-tie wearing chimpanzees playing tricks on their human co-worker, saying all that monkey business proves deadly for the endangered species.
Lincoln Park Zoo officials fear images of the frolicking chimps broadcast worldwide do little to help […]
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Stocks are taking a sharp fall in early trading Monday amid reports that a congressional committee will fail to agree on a plan to cut the U.S. government’s budget deficit. The Dow Jones industrial average is down more than 200 points.
A 12-member bipartisan panel is supposed to agree on at least $1.2 trillion in budget […]
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Theodore J. Forstmann, a longtime financier who counted the iconic baseball card company Topps and business jet company Gulfstream Aerospace among his buyouts, died Sunday at the age of 71.
The cause was brain cancer, according to a statement from sports agency IMG. Forstmann was the chairman and CEO of IMG and was the senior founding […]
The new president of embattled Olympus Corp. on Thursday denied the company’s $687 million payment for financial advice was excessive, while foreign business groups urged Japan to bolster its lagging corporate governance rules to avoid more high-level scandals.
Shuichi Takayama, who was named president Wednesday following the abrupt resignation of Chairman and President Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, sought […]
Bigger is better, at least when it comes to pension funds.
The largest— funds with $37 billion in assets on average — outperformed smaller plans — with an average of $1 billion — by 45 to 50 basis points, or 0.4 per cent each year, according to a new study.
Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Rotman […]
Tropical Storm Gert continues to weaken as it heads northeast into the open waters of the Atlantic after skirting past Bermuda.
The storm’s maximum sustained winds had decreased to 40 mph (64 kph) as of late Tuesday morning. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami says additional weakening is forecast and Gert will likely lose its […]
Greek lawmakers begin debating new austerity plans Monday that must pass this week if the debt-ridden country is to receive the critical next installment of loans from its international bailout plan and avoid default.
The deeply unpopular spending cuts and tax hikes in a midterm austerity bill and an additional implementation law are expected to be […]