STAFFING CHAOS: Keeping the felled Fukushima nuclear plant in northeastern Japan in stable condition requires a cast of thousands. Increasingly the plant's operator is struggling to find enough workers, ...

The economy is recovering, the White House is dealing with multiple controversies, and President Barack Obama appears generally unaffected either way. He's getting no significant uptick in approval from ...

By Tony Munroe MUMBAI (Reuters) - Shares in Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd(RANB.NS) fell as much as 10.7 percent on Thursday after majority shareholder Daiichi Sankyo Co said it believed former shareholders ...

DETROIT (Reuters) - Auto sales in May are expected to rise 6 percent to 8 percent and the annual sales pace should rebound back above 15 million vehicles after a disappointing result in the prior month, two research reports said on Thursday. Sales of new cars and trucks in May are expected to top 1.43 million vehicles, …

State investigators say at least one bar in New Jersey was mixing food dye with rubbing alcohol and serving it as scotch. That's one of the details released Thursday about an investigation dubbed "Operation ...

If you’re working in banking and are suffering from exhaustion, digestive problems or just general bloating, you may want to take some leaves from the lifestyle manuals of Christine Lagarde and Nassim ...

By Jonny Hogg GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Troubled eastern Congo has the best chance in years to secure a lasting peace but the United Nations stands ready to pacify the region by force if need be, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday. Fighting that erupted on Monday near Goma, eastern …

The billionaire ex-owners of Ranbaxy denied Thursday charges by the Japanese buyers of the Indian generics giant that they hid key details about a US probe into the safety of the company's drugs. Daiichi ...

Japanese ETFs had one of their worst days in years, leading products like DXJ and EWJ down more than 6 percent.

Plus, there were noteworthy purchases at Ambit Biosciences and Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals.

In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is asking a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees ...

By Ransdell Pierson NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson said it plans to seek approvals for 11 new drugs by 2017, including a new type of treatment for patients with depression that have failed to benefit from standard medications. The intranasal drug, called esketamine, is closely related to a pediatric …

Here's a look at median CEO pay by industry last year, as calculated by executive pay research firm Equilar. For the fourth time in five years, health care CEOs got the most pay and utilities CEOs got ...

A look at the 50 highest-paid CEOs of 2012, as calculated by executive pay research firm Equilar. 1. Leslie Moonves, CBS, $60.3 million, down 12 percent 2. David Zaslav, Discovery Communications, $49.9 ...

Here's a look at what companies spent in 2012 on CEOs' country club and business club memberships, private jet travel and home security. Memberships in country clubs and business clubs: —L. Kevin Kelly, ...

DeVry recently announced that its chairman and board member, Harold T. Shapiro will soon retire from the board of directors.

Clothing and accessories company Rue21 has agreed to be taken private in nearly $1 billion deal with private equity firm Apax Partners. Shares hit an all-time high Thursday. Apax will pay $42 per share, ...

UMass Memorial Medical Center and the union representing 1,100 nurses have reached a tentative contract agreement that staves off a scheduled strike. The deal reached Wednesday with nurses at the hospital's ...

Discount retailer Dollar Tree Inc. said Thursday that its net income increased 15 percent in the first quarter as consumers spent more at its stores, which sell goods for $1 or less. The results beat Wall ...

-4 expected after -5 last month.

The North Carolina Senate gave initial approval Wednesday to a state budget proposal after a fierce partisan debate in which Democrats accused the plan's Republican authors of choosing tax reductions over ...

Selecting a college major can be one of the easiest - or most difficult - decisions a person can make in their lifetime. Some of you have known you've wanted to become a veterinarian since the day you ...

Shares of some top health care equipment companies are down at 10 a.m.: Becton, Dickinson & Co. fell $.23 or .2 percent, to $99.79. Covidien fell $.62 or 1.0 percent, to $64.63. Patterson fell $.72 or ...

Environmental groups and a public health organization want the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to consider the big picture — from mining in Wyoming to air pollution in China — before allowing development ...

The American College of Chest Physicians has included Covidien's superDimension ENB system in its guidelines for early detection and diagnosis of lung cancer.

Cato Corp. said Thursday its first-quarter net income fell 3 percent, saying that continued tough economic conditions and a variety of factors lowered its sales. For the quarter ended May 4, the specialty ...

By Kevin Yao BEIJING (Reuters) - China's plan to spend $6.5 trillion on urbanization to bolster the economy is running into snags, sources close to the government said, as top leaders fear another spending binge could push up local debt levels and inflate a property bubble. Premier Li Keqiang has rejected an urbanization …

Huge upward revisions to March as well.

By Kevin Yao BEIJING (Reuters) - China's plan to spend $6.5 trillion (4.31 trillion pounds) on urbanisation to bolster the economy is running into snags, sources close to the government said, as top leaders fear another spending binge could push up local debt levels and inflate a property bubble. Premier Li Keqiang has …

Signet Jewelers Ltd. said Thursday that its first-quarter net income rose 11 percent on strong performance at its U.S. Kay Jewelers and Jared retail stores. Net income for the three months ended May 4 ...

Stunning Reversals Shock the FX World

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell by 23,000 last week, further evidence that the job market is slowly returning to health. Applications for unemployment aid declined to a ...

A lawyer for the parent company of AEG Live LLC called Michael Jackson a freak on the day the singer signed a multimillion contract for a series of ill-fated comeback concerts, emails displayed for a jury ...

A federal judge sentenced a Montana man to three years in prison on Wednesday for attempting to board a flight in Sacramento, Calif., with four loaded guns. Harold E. Waller, 46, of Circle, Mont., was ...

A prominent Nebraska abortion clinic is facing a new legal challenge from state officials who want to revoke the license of the clinic's only nurse because of allegations of questionable care. Nebraska ...

All that is left of Shayne Patteson's three-bedroom home is the tiny area where his wife hunkered down under a mattress to protect their three children when a tornado packing winds of at least 200 mph ...

Democrats in the Ohio Senate suggested Wednesday that budget writers take millions of dollars from a proposed income tax cut for higher wage earners and direct it to schools instead, as work intensified ...

The Pentagon has decided to buy a new computerized health records system to be able to better share and merge its data with the Department of Veterans Affairs, but officials cautioned that it was part ...

KUALA LUMPUR (May 23): Based on corporate results released on Thursday, stocks that may stir interest on May 27 include YTL group of firms,  MISC, Maybank, IHH, Lafarge, Jobstreet, Perdana Petrole

Even though Gov. Paul LePage's office made it clear Wednesday he'll veto a bill to pay off a $484 million debt to Maine hospitals because of an amendment to expand Medicaid, Democrats professed hope the ...

The nation's record-low teen birth rate stems from robust declines in nearly every state, but most dramatically in several Mountain States and among Hispanics, according to a new government report. All ...

Johnson & Johnson says it plans to submit more than 10 new treatments to regulators for approval and 25 applications for additional uses of approved drugs by 2017. The New Brunswick, N.J., company says ...

The incoming mayor of Los Angeles was able to defeat a fellow Democrat by depicting her as a pawn of utility union bosses in a city long friendly to labor, an outcome expected to echo beyond California ...

Quality Systems posted a loss for its fiscal fourth quarter, mostly due to a fresh assessment of asset values within its hospital division. Quality Systems Inc. develops and markets computer-based applications ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has announced another death from the SARS-like novel coronavirus (nCoV) in its central al-Qassim region, bringing the total number of deaths in the kingdom to 17. A non-Saudi, whose nationality and age were not given, died on Tuesday, the Health Ministry said on its website late on Wednesday. …

Shares of Ranbaxy plunged Thursday after its Japanese parent accused former owners of the Indian firm of hiding key details about a US probe into the safety of drugs made by the generics giant. Ranbaxy's ...

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