President Barack Obama has admitted that America faces a "dangerous stalemate" over how to prevent the country defaulting on its debt, as he and John Boehner, the top Republican in Congress, blamed one another for the impasse on national television.
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I have arrived in Malaga to cover the live blog of the International Conference on eHealth 2011 . On the short flight over here, I went through the research papers to be presented on the first day of the conference which starts tomorrow - and what a way to kick things off.
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Middle-class blacks are more likely than whites to have reduced their saving and investing to make it through the recession, according to the 2010 Ariel Black Investor Survey released today.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says that many businesses and consumers are finding it easier to borrow as banks shore up their balance sheets. But he says many creditworthy borrowers are finding it difficult to get mortgage loans.
Bon-Ton Stores Inc., parent company of Carson Pirie Scott and other regional department stores, said Wednesday its all-important Christmas holiday sales slid 2.6 percent and profits dropped 8 percent partly because relatively warm weather cut into sales of winter...
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Have you been dying to capture your entire life on video, but worried you'll look like a weirdo with all those cameras and devices attached to you? Now you can just don your favorite pair of nerd glasses and track everything you do.
Sony Computer Science Laboratories, in...
The Ford site’s page for the new 2013 Escape now displays a configurator with pricing (sort of) for the crossover’s four trim levels, as well as feature and engine availability in each trim. We say “sort of” because the prices listed online are actually variable by up to $1000...
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It’s been brutally hot here in the Midwest, with heat indices hovering in the 110-112 range for the past few days and signs pointing to another heat wave this weekend. So this new flower-based ice cream from Fraunhofer Labs sounds mighty appealing.
It has no dairy, gluten...
Schizophrenia, depression, addiction and other mental disorders cause suffering and cost billions of dollars every year in lost productivity. Neurological and psychiatric conditions account for 13 percent of the global burden of disease, a measure of years of life lost because of premature...
Sears Canada Inc. said Friday that it is shutting the doors of three high-profile department stores affecting some 670 jobs, as it tries to turn around flagging profits. The retailer said locations in Vancouver, Calgary and Ottawa will close by the end of October.