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When a fish taken from the Connecticut River recently tested positive for radioactive strontium-90, suspicion focused on the nearby Vermont Yankee nuclear plant as the likely source.

Movie audiences are showing more appetite for Shrek than for sex over Memorial Day weekend.

In an effort to slow the exodus of U.S. telephone work to overseas services, Sen. Charles Schumer is introducing legislation that would impose an excise tax on companies that transfer calls with American area codes to foreign call centers.

A BP executive says a relief well is the "end point" of efforts to stop the Gulf oil spill _ which suggests there's little chance of plugging the leak until the new well is completed in August.

With BP declaring failure in its latest attempt to plug the uncontrolled gusher feeding the worst oil spill in U.S. history, the company is turning to yet another mix of risky undersea robot maneuvers and longshot odds to keep crude from flowing into the Gulf.

A newspaper loyal to Zimbabwe's ruling party is accusing the U.S. of trying to stop international sales of Zimbabwean diamonds.

In this age of microchip miracles, people are seeing brute mass, old tools and ancient physics at work in the Gulf of Mexico.

A BP executive says BP will learn from its failed attempts to stop the Gulf oil spill and apply those lessons to its next try.

It's all so last millennium, that filthy business in the depths of the Gulf of Mexico.

The economy trudges ahead yet debt dogs many Americans, stressing them out even as they firm up their own financial foundations.

Russia will press the European Union to scrap visas for its citizens and seek the EU's help in modernizing its economy at a two-day summit beginning Monday.

The chairman of Egyptian mobile phone giant Orascom Telecom says he expects talks with South Africa's MTN Group over the purchase of some of Orascom's units will be wrapped up within a week.

The economy trudges ahead yet debt dogs many Americans, stressing them out even as they firm up their own financial foundations.

British Airways cabin crew have launched a new five-day strike in a dispute over pay and working conditions.

You’re not paranoid. They really are out to get … your data. Where you shop, what you buy, the websites you look at, even your Twitter feed — it’s all of interest to a wide range of companies.

Yet another mix of risky undersea robot maneuvers, containment devices and longshot odds is being prepared to fight the uncontrolled gusher feeding the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

Kurt and Gina Leiss were looking at losing their family business, but have landed in a new downtown location that may be even better than their old one.

The “gray economy” sounds like a way to describe the global economy over the past few years: foggy or cloudy, with intermittent rays of sunshine.

Bangladesh says it has blocked the popular social networking website Facebook over a page that urges people to draw images of Islam's prophet Muhammad.

Another leak of radioactive material has been found and fixed at the troubled Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant.