An online video purported to show the beheading of journalist Kenji Goto.

German carmaker BMW and car supplier Bosch [ROBG.UL] said on Saturday they would join Deutsche Bahn [DBN.UL] in two claims for about 2.1 billion euros ($2.4 billion) in damages from air freight carriers who were involved in a cartel. The air cargo cartel, which included Europe’s biggest airline Lufthansa and British Airways, was first discovered […]

McDonald’s Corp. (MCD.N) will open fewer new restaurants in Russia this year than last because a fall in the rouble has increased expansion costs and is hurting consumers, its Russian chief executive Khamzat Khasbulatov told Reuters. The rouble, hit by a drop in oil prices and Western sanctions over Ukraine, has fallen more than 50 […]

Final decisions are not imminent in the efforts to find successors to Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser, who steps down March 1, and Richard Fisher of the Dallas Fed, who retires on March 19. Matthew Rutherford, whose stint as Treasury’s top domestic finance official ended on Friday, was under consideration at least in early stages […]

His mother, the former Dorothy Mahar, died in the flu pandemic of 1918, and his absentee father, Bleecker Noel Leggett, left his upbringing to his grandmother. Despite the difficulties of his early life, he made it to Yale, where he graduated with a …

The irony is that Cassandra's fatalism and Henri's probably come from the same source, to some extent — Cassandra knows about the future pandemic, and Henri worked in the lab where that pandemic was apparently developed (and watched all his …

"Sound Effect" is a weekly tour of ideas, inspired by the place where we live. The show is hosted by KPLU's Gabriel Spitzer. Each week's show will explore a different theme. In this week's show, we dive into Northwest myths and legends. We explore the …

"Rather than develop a new instrument, we've created a nanoscale tool made from strands of DNA that can detect and report how molecules behave, enabling biological measurements to be made by almost anyone, using only common and inexpensive …

But maybe, just maybe, this article will convince you to stick with your commitment to better health, change your DNA regarding your approach to fitness, and keep on exercising! Because exercise, as a new study has found, does just that. Exercise …

The duct tape was sent to the state police lab. The DNA evidence on the tape was matched to sample in the state database entered in 2013 by Tucker after he was convicted of a robbery in Brooklyn. Tucker pleaded guilty in December to first-degree …