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Her tiny frame seemed to get lost in the hospital blankets as she lay dying. She was almost 80, couldn't speak, couldn't move, but they still called her "Peter Pan incarnate." She seemed innocent and childlike. Doctors said she could hear…

General Motors Co.’s board is considering all options for its German Opel unit, including rejecting two pending bids and keeping it as a wholly owned subsidiary, a person familiar with the discussions said. The board yesterday reviewed…

Men who drink beer or liquor on a regular basis may face a heightened risk of several different types of cancer, a new study suggests. Researchers found that among nearly 3,600 Canadian men ages 35 to 70, those who averaged at least a…

The Obama administration will raise its 10-year budget deficit projection to approximately $9 trillion from $7.108 trillion in a report next week, a senior administration official told Reuters on Friday. The higher deficit figure, based on…

The global economy may be coming out of the worst recession since World War II as record-low interest rates and trillions of dollars in fiscal stimulus spur demand. Sales of existing U.S. homes jumped in July to the highest level since…

Bipartisan health care negotiators are aiming to cut the costs of their bill after getting an earful from voters, a participant in the closed-door talks said Friday. Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, a moderate whose support could be crucial if…

Nigeria's high court has ruled that its country's government illegally revoked exploration licences granted to a South Korean oil consortium. The Korea National Oil Corporation (KNOC) had filed an action demanding the restoration of two…

Farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and similarly poor nations have the most to lose as the Earth gets warmer, highlighting the need to supply them with drought- resistant seeds and more effective water irrigation. A study by Danish professor…

Oil eased below $73 a barrel on Friday, reversing an earlier surge to a seven-week high, as optimism over the pace of demand recovery in top energy consumer, the United States, faded on the back of mixed economic data. Industry data on…

The dollar’s role as a good store of value is “questionable” and the currency has a high degree of risk, said Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz. “There is a need for a global reserve system,” Stiglitz, a Columbia University…