Between surging oil prices, food inflation and a credit crunch that's depressed global growth, leaders from the Group of Eight economic powers face the gravest combination of economic woes in at least a decade when they gather next week. The outlook has...

California regulators admitted Thursday that for more than a year they didn't even try to enforce a million-dollar fine against health insurer Anthem Blue Cross because they knew they would be outgunned in court. In early 2007, the Department of Managed...

North Korea says its nuclear negotiating partners should quickly live up to its energy shipment under an aid-for-disarmament deal. The North's Foreign Ministry said Friday that it showed its resolve to disarm by submitting its nuclear declaration and...

Michael Phelps vs. Ryan Lochte. Lochte vs. Aaron Peirsol. Natalie Coughlin vs. Dara Torres. Great rivalries abound in three finals at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials Friday night. And Amanda Beard goes for her fourth Olympic team in the 200-meter...

LONDON (Reuters) - World stocks slipped back towards this week's five-month low on Friday as oil prices near record highs kept inflation concerns alive a day after the European Central Bank raised interest rates.

Samuel Israel III, the hedge fund manager who fled after faking a suicide, went to prison on Thursday, 25 days late.

Phillip R. Bennett was sentenced for a financial cover-up that brought down one of the world's largest commodities brokerages.

In poll, Spaniards and Italians are especially fearful of fallout from U.S. subprime mortgage crisis

The European Central Bank, spooked by soaring prices for food and fuel, raised its benchmark interest rate a quarter of a percentage point to 4.25 percent.

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