SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — An undercover video that showed California cows struggling to stand as they were prodded to slaughter by forklifts led to the largest meat recall in U.S. history. In Vermont, a video of veal calves skinned alive and tossed like sacks of potatoes ended with the plant's closure and criminal convictions.

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's main opposition group is launching its most serious attempt yet to form a rival government to President Bashar Assad's regime, convening in Turkey on Monday to choose an interim prime minister for areas the rebels control.

In 2011, senior executives at JPMorgan Chase & Co told one of the bank’s trading and hedging groups to scale back its riskier positions as new regulations would make these bets much more expensive to maintain. …

To get its 787 Dreamliner flying again, Boeing Co is testing the plane’s volatile battery system to a rigorous standard that the company itself helped develop — but that it never used on the jet. Boeing’s …

Stocks and commodities fell sharply in Asia on Monday as investors were rattled by a radical bailout plan for Cyprus and piled into safer assets including the U.S. dollar and gold. Euro zone finance ministers …

Cyprus’s government was working on a proposal to soften the blow of a bank deposit levy on smaller savers ahead of a parliament vote on Monday on the measure central to a euro zone bailout designed to …

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In a strange contradiction of conventional wisdom, researchers have found that obese heart patients are less likely to die than those who maintain a normal weight. This is despite the fact that the obese patients in the study, which covered…

Researchers peaked behind proverbial bedroom doors to get a real-time view of plant sex in microgravity. What they found might have implication for the future of space travel and could give insight into the effects of low gravity on…

Bats are a symbol of terror and disease to people the world over. At the very least, they give many people the heebie-jeebies. Nobody can argue with bat's success though–bats make up 1/5 of all…