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Financial companies are shedding tens of thousands of jobs, yet applications to graduate business schools rose this year.

Seven years ago, eBay was an online juggernaut and Amazon.com its weaker rival. How times have changed.

Some investors say that the sell-off has gone too far and that stocks could rally.

North Korea on Sunday welcomed the move and said that it would resume disabling its nuclear weapons facilities.

Republicans said that they were worried John McCain was heading for defeat without a clear message.

A new plan to inject capital into banks raises questions about whether officials squandered time selling an earlier bailout approach.

U.S. business tycoon Richard Garriott blasted off into space aboard a Russian rocket.

Little is being built in Japan’s stagnant economy, and day laborers and part-time workers are having difficulty finding jobs.

Saying North Korea had agreed to adhere to nuclear concessions, the U.S. took it off a list of terrorism sponsors.

Responding to demands for a crackdown on corruption, Hamid Karzai named as his interior minister a former official of Afghanistan’s Communist-era secret police.

Exchange-traded funds that focus on alternative energy have proliferated and many of them have been mirroring the sharp swings in the oil markets.

Thanks to allies in Congress, a midlevel worker extracted nearly $350 million for items the Pentagon did not want.

The start of school is a test of Iraq’s overall improvement: whether uprooted families are confident enough to return.

A corrosive liquid overflowed a tank at a chemical plant in western Pennsylvania, evaporating into a toxic cloud that snaked along the ground and forced about 2,500 to flee.

Five people, including three children, were killed after a fire swept through a sixth-floor apartment in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood.

The groom arrived at the Hindu ceremony in a traditional procession, complete with drummers, dancers and an elephant.

Commodity prices stumbled badly in the third quarter, harpooning investors in natural resources mutual funds.

Fifteen years after Communists failed to reverse history, can a credit crunch succeed?

Texas quarterback Colt McCoy directed two drives for touchdowns in the fourth quarter during the Longhorns’ upset of the Oklahoma Sooners.

States are moving to rein in programs that reimburse film producers for all manner of expenditures from the salaries of stars to meals for the crew.