SINGAPORE: Gold rose for a third session on Friday, eking out a small gain for the week and pulling further away from a three-week trough, as a softer US dollar offset fears of a tapering in stimulus measures next month. With the dollar at seven-week …

San Juan, Puerto Rico – Led by Valerie Arioto's .500 batting average, the U.S. Women's National Team claimed its first gold medal of the summer Friday at the Mayor's Cup. After bouts of rainy weather continued into Friday, the Puerto Rico tourney came …

NEW DELHI: The prices of both the precious metals, gold and silver, maintained an upward march for the third straight day in the national capital today on increased buying by stockists and jewellers to meet the festive season demand amid a firm global …

A century ago, their tribe, engaged in less complicated businesses than power-packed takeovers, was known as robber barons. Today, the billionaires whom Wall Street admires for their ability to generate money on money, are apparently fanged with …

The sale follows reports that several billionaires, including the Koch Brothers, key backers of the right-wing Republican Tea Party movement, have been looking into purchasing the Los Angeles Times, one of eight newspapers that the Tribune Co. has been …

Lightsquared and their planned LTE network is dead, and all that's left after the long, noisy saga is a few bickering billionaires. Phillip Falcone's Harbringer Capital Partners filed a $4 billion lawsuit (pdf) this week against Dish Network, claiming …

As a preschooler in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, 4-year-old Hannah has been splitting her time between day care and an early-childhood education center. Her dad, Jason Morales, drops her off in the morning before his shift …. Supplementing the school day …

For the lower-income people, the subsidized population, these products may have a lower commission rate, and that's OK with us because it's all incremental business. … TFT: But that's what you've done in the past, and reached more affluent consumers.

The modern economy demands highly skilled workers, but many children from less affluent homes are handicapped before they even enter first grade. They haven't been frequent visitors to libraries, museums, and zoos. They haven't grown up in … Most of …