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U.S. housing starts rose solidly in September on soaring demand for rental apartments, a sign that the housing market continues to steadily improve even as economic growth has slowed. The Commerce Department said on Tuesday groundbreaking increased 6.5 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 1.21 million units. It was the sixth straight month […]

The National Dialogue Quartet was cited for its contributions to the Arab Spring movement.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., in the midst of spending $1 billion to raise employees’ wages and give them extra training, has been cutting the number of hours some of them work in a bid to keep costs in check. It also has a new scheduling system.

The company will kick off the program that allows shoppers to pay for holiday gifts and other products in installments, on August 28, two weeks earlier than last year, Anne Marie Kehoe, vice president of toys, said in a briefing. The move reflects Wal-Mart’s desire to get a head start on a holiday season that […]

China’s shock 2 percent devaluation of the yuan on Tuesday pushed the dollar higher and raised the prospect of a new round of currency wars, just as Greece reached a new deal to contain its debt crisis.

In our view, these data, in concert with the positive Ebola data released [recently] de-risk the pandemic and seasonal flu vaccine platforms. We have lowered our discount rate for these programs to 15%, driving our price target to $13 [from $11]. We …

Using CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology, they showed that AG-haESCs carrying deletions in the differentially DNA methylated regions controlling two paternally repressed imprinted genes, H19 and Gtl2, led to a higher rate successful SC pup birth.

Now it’s a Greek freak out. Stocks falling on word creditors have nixed the latest proposal by Greece to deal with its financial woes. Plus, did the U.S. economy stumble as much as we thought in the first quarter? We’ll find out in moments when the government releases the final report on GDP. And building […]

Three million Muslims in the UK will break their fast with lavish sundown meals during the Islamic holy month, which began last Thursday and ends with the Eid celebration on June 18 this year.