The researchers, based at the Universities of Leicester and Cambridge, looked how advanced breast cancer was in over 20,000 women diagnosed between 2006-2010 using data from the National Cancer Registration Service. They then calculated how many lives …

In Dublin, for example, council members earn $11,250 a year for their service. But in Washington Township, which surrounds Dublin, trustees earn $20,568, the maximum. Washington Township has the biggest annual budget in central Ohio: $46.6 million.

The growth has been impressive across all customer segments — personal banking, affluent banking and business banking, as well across all products — savings, loans, cards and wealth management. The same is true for all the geographies we operate in, …

Very often women may be influenced by the car a man drives, his swanky apartment in an affluent neighbourhood and the brand of his watch he wears. These can be seen as symbols of success which can, in turn, be interpreted as a sign of financial stability.

Does it bother you that such exploitation might actually be good for America, since it lowers the price of many items for the American consumer? Not at all. Your loyalty is not to the American consumer, it's to the exploited Chinese worker — and you …

The existence of the floating barges surfaced last week, when technology website CNET theorised that the San Francisco vessel might be a floating data centre that would house banks of computers. Google was granted a patent for a water-based data centre …

For those who still associate Hyundai and Kia with what reviewers euphemistically refer to as "cheap and cheerful" products like the old Pony subcompact, the new K900 might come as quite a shock. When it goes on sale early next year the big Kia sedan …

That the government might have a say in how private donors direct their charitable contributions is a sharp, even stunning, departure from the American tradition of independent philanthropy. But the frontrunner in the New York City mayoral election …

They point out that given the nature of US politics, moneyed private interests continue to trump philanthropy's concern for the public interest when it comes to policy decisions. There is even a nascent recognition that our nation's growing economic …