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The 59-year-old former banker, a Mandarin-speaking American, sits on the boards of five U.S.-listed Chinese companies, including JinkoSolar Holding Co.

The Porsche-Piech family bought Qatar Holding LLC's 10 percent stake in Porsche Automobil Holding SE to regain full control of the investment company whose only asset is a majority stake in Volkswagen AG.

The $950,000 grant passed city council as Toronto police arrested two suspected drug dealers allegedly seen with the embattled politician in an infamous photo.

The U.S. stock market rose in early trading Monday, driven not by any new economic data but by investors counting on the Federal Reserve to extend programs meant to boost the economy.

A customer leaves Orchard Supply Hardware store in Mountain View, Calif., in this Jan. 3, 2012 file photo.

Dow Jones futures are up 124 points to 15,112. S&P futures have added 14.3 points to 1,632.70.

Those requests were made as part of Prism, the recently revealed highly classified National Security Agency program that seizes records from Internet companies.

Demand for the Treasury securities most vulnerable to inflation is climbing to an almost two-year high as pension funds and insurance companies snap up discounted debt with consumer prices rising at the slowest since 2010.

But the pop sensation, who's causing friction abroad with his bad boy persona and run-ins with Hollywood neighbors, is still tops with fellow Canadians.

Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas also quit as the chairman of the Civic Democratic Party.

In the District's less prosperous days, Safeway - the city's top grocery chain for decades - was often just competing with itself.

Since Man of Steel was actually a little front-loaded this weekend, it's unfortunately going to matter whether or not you count that extra $12 million from the Thursday Wal-Mart screenings as part of the opening weekend or merely basically 'bonus grosses' to be counted exclusively as Thursday figures.

But even after a redesign a few months ago the Yahoo Homepage still looks cluttered and old-fashioned like this In the past few months, teams led by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer redesigned Flickr to look beautiful and clean like this a [...] even after a redesign a few months ago the Yahoo Homepage still looks cluttered and old-fashioned like thisa

The vehicles involved are the Chevrolet Trailblazer, GMC Envoy, Ruick Rainier, Saab 9-7x and Isuzu Ascender from the 2006 and 2007 model years.

Over here in Europe there's been something of a scare campaign going on over "sex trafficking".

Watchcase, a new condominium complex that's under construction in Sag Harbor, is like no other property in the Hamptons.

Iran's interior minister said at a press conference on Saturday that moderate cleric Hassan Rowhani has won Iran's presidential election, Rowhani was seen as the "reformist" and "moderate" candidate in the election, and a flurry of late support appears to have vaulted him over the top of the conservative and hardline candidates that dominated the ... (more)

"The recovery has surpassed the agreed upon recovery goals by 500%," Allen told Business Insider.

The U.S. economy is on sounder footing than it was a year ago but is still being restrained by government spending cuts and tax increases, the International Monetary Fund said Friday.

Shayla Cypriano, 23, was killed June 13, 2013 when a truck that had been in an accident toppled onto her as she rode her bike to work.