The Great 21st Century Waistline War is upon us. Obesity is a disease, the American Medical Association has declared. Several legislative efforts in recent years have tried to enforce better nutritional tendencies. Almost any week of the year, it's not … Continue …

With the possible exception of Congress, few government institutions are held in such low regard as the Internal Revenue Service.

If something could actually break the social Web because of extreme overexposure, the "Sharknado" rage of the moment would be a candidate to do it.

Investigators classified the fire that broke out on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner parked at London's Heathrow airport as a "serious incident" but have found no evidence it was caused by the plane's ...

Greece's bank rescue fund picked Eurobank to buy New Hellenic Postbank as part of consolidation in the sector and to meet a condition for the next tranche of Greece's bailout, it said after a board meeting ...

Next week marks the first big week of second-quarter earnings, and it is sure to bring both joy and misery to Wall Street. Investors will concentrate on market fundamentals after weeks when Federal Reserve ...

Occupying a single floor of a three-storey building in a suburban Dublin office park, Western Union's offices are notably modest for the international headquarters of the world's largest money transfer ...

An Italian appeals court in Siena upheld an earlier ruling that Japanese investment bank Nomura did not made wrongful gains in a derivative deal with Tuscan lender Monte dei Paschi , legal sources said ...