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Better than expected China trade data boosts market sentiments
BEIJING - China has reported better-than-expected trade data, adding to optimism that growth in the world's second-largest economy may be rebounding. Exports, a key driver of expansion, rose 14.1% in...
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Farm workers continue protests seeking wage hike continue
CAPE TOWN - Police fired rubber bullets to repel hundreds of rock-throwing farm workers in the normally calm and picturesque wineland in De Doorns as the strike for higher wages entered the second ...
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European Central Bank keeps interest rates unchanged
FRANKFURT - European Central Bank President Mario Draghi Thursday announced the decision to keep the key ECB interest rates unchanged at 0.75 per cent stating that the "risks surrounding the ...
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New report blames faulty practices for 50 per cent food going waste
LONDON - As much as 50% of all food produced around the world never reaches a human stomach due to issues as varied as inadequate infrastructure and storage facilities to overly strict sell-by ...
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New US mortgage rules geared to curb risky loans
BALTIMORE, Maryland - The United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Thursday unveiled new mortgage rules which put the onus on lenders to ensure that borrowers do not take on more ...
View ArticlePetersen Automotive Museum to keep vault open new chairman named
Ever since the Petersen Automotive Museum opened the doors to its downstairs vault to the public, the institution has had a steady line of people trying to get in. For that reason, the museum said ...
View ArticleCold winter puts a chill on Chinas economy
China's coldest winter in nearly three decades sent vegetable prices soaring and drove inflation to a seven-month high in December. Consumer prices rose 2.5% from December a year earlier, ...
View ArticleChevrolet Flexing Global Muscles at Detroit Show
Detroit will get to see five Chevrolet models that were neither developed in the U.S., nor sold here. That's an unusual move by Chevy, which traditionally only shows vehicles at the Detroit show ...
View Article‘No’ Oscar nomination boosts Chile’s film industry
In this May 12, 2010 file photo, actor Gael Garcia Bernal, arrives at the premiere for the film ';Robin Hood'; at the 63rd international film festival in Cannes, southern France. Chile gets ...
View ArticleFAA reviewing Boeing 787s
Federal authorities Friday ordered a review of electrical systems in Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner following a spate of incidents, including a battery fire earlier this week in Boston, 15 months ...
View ArticleReport Climate change already affects U.S. economy people
WASHINGTON -- A new report warns that climate change driven by human activity already is affecting the American people and economy, with more frequent and intense heat waves, heavy downpours and, in ...
View ArticleMiami City Ballet To World Debut “Euphotic”
MIAMI (CBS4) – The dancers from the Miami City Ballet company have been busy these days, rehearsing for Program II, whichpremieres Friday night at the Adrienne Arsht Center with four ballets. ...
View ArticleFord City wins battle of scorers
Once they asserted themselves in the offensive end Thursday night, Kittanning junior guard Emily Knepshield and Ford City junior forward Allyson Cujas turned the slow-going nonsection game between ...
View ArticleManufacturing chief devoted to serving others
His daughter, Lori Lynn Stresen-Reuter of Naples, Fla., described a man who dropped out of college to help his father, also named Carl, run a small manufacturing plant in ...
View ArticleNorth Huntingdon board weighs plan for restaurant store in business park
North Huntingdon‘s zoning hearing board will consider a request for a restaurant and store at Banco Business Park in the township‘s Hahntown ...
View ArticleFord Fusion offers European flair
So it‘s refreshing to see Ford‘s 2013 Fusion, a good and good-looking car in a segment where form follows way behind function. The second generation sedan doesn‘t share a freckle ...
View ArticleSouthmoreland School District business manager resigns post
"This is a tragedy," Fike said, adding that she was one of three school directors who voted against Salem‘s hiring. "We have no choice but to accept this resignation, but it is ...
View ArticleDouglas Todd Trends in global religion
Many predicted religion would die out as secularism spreads around the planet. But so far they've been wrong, mostly.Religion and spirituality remain extremely powerful across the globe, even ...
View ArticleIts an unorthodox way to run biggest economy in the world
Sandy Berger , has said that "Lew's faith never got in the way of performing his duties" and added that he "was able to balance the requirements, which was very, very hard – ...
View ArticleRecent climate change research points to a growing global crisis
The latest climate research shows that merely stabilizing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at current levels will neither halt the increasing atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide nor contain the ...
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