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You can call it a new era of space transportation in which there will be space elevators to launch astronauts and tourists into orbit.

After weeks of bickering between city and state officials about how to address New York City’s unprecedented Legionnaires’ disease outbreak, the source of the disease has reportedly been located – and the outbreak declared “over” for good.

Initial jobless claims rose by 4,000 to a seasonally adjusted 277,000 in the seven days stretching from Aug. 9 to Aug. 15, marking the highest level since early July.

The company plans to shut down the No. 1 pulp dryer and No. 2 paper machine at its Androscoggin mill in Jay, reducing its coated paper capacity by about 23 percent. Verso does not have sufficient information at this time to estimate the cash costs and noncash charges resulting...

Another strong fiscal quarter, with solid growth across its major cloud services and development platform, gave Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff a chance to praise his company’s joint efforts with Microsoft, mock some other rivals, and promote the upcoming Dreamforce convention.

Nintendo has dropped the price of 2DS in North America.

The statewide median sales price for single-family existing homes last month was $199,900, up 8.1 percent from the previous year, according to data from Florida Realtors Industry Data and Analysis department in partnership with local Realtor boards/associations. The changes are...

Considering that Twitter prides itself on being the “real-time information” (i.e., news) network, it’s interesting that more users don’t use it to read the news. The popularity of mobile messaging apps is also increasing, especially the ones that delete...

Bugs have infested the site of the Burning Man festival in Black Rock Desert, Nevada.

5-year-old Hailey Dawson was born with a rare congenital disease called Poland Syndrome, which causes underdevelopment in the pectoral muscle and sometimes affects the use of fingers on one side of the body.

A key indicator of China’s manufacturing activity slumped to a 77-month low in August, an independent survey showed on Friday, fuelling concerns of further deceleration in the world’s second-largest economy.

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The company believes that the closing of operations will be accretive to its earnings going forward as this will enable it to deploy resources exclusively in the domestic markets and focus on developing its omnichannel capacities.

IHS Automotive says its analysis leads it to believe GM is planning to start shipping a small SUV, the Buick Envision, back to the U.S.by next year. GM should stand by its declaration that it will build where it sells.

Speaking at the same time, ICICI Bank’s CEO Chanda Kochhar said on transmission of RBI’s policy rate cuts into lending rates that there can never be an equal cut at the bank’s end.