New Japan Party Unveils ‘Yurikonomics’ Deregulation Steps
A new party led by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said on Friday it hopes to pursue policies to revive the...
Why Do Land Rights Matter to Communities and Companies?
Experts met in Stockholm this week to assess progress on securing land rights for indigenous people and local communities and...
Microsoft to Help Expand Rural Broadband in 6 US States
Microsoft said Thursday that it would team up with communities in six U.S. states to invest in technology and related...
Study: Student Debt Defaults More Likely at For-Profit Schools
Students who attended for-profit colleges were twice as likely or more to default on their loans than students who attended...
Development of Electric-Powered Planes
As electric-powered cars are rapidly gaining popularity, the last frontier in private transportation is also opening up to alternative, eco-friendly...
GM More Than Doubles Self-Driving Car Test Fleet in California
General Motors’s self-driving unit, Cruise Automation, has more than doubled the size of its test fleet of robot cars in...
Drought-hit and Hungry, Sri Lankans Struggle for a Harvest — or Work
At 52 years old, with two grown children, Newton Gunathileka thought he should be working less by this point. Instead...
Archaeologists Put Greek Resort Step Closer to Reality
Greece welcomed Wednesday a decision by senior archaeologists to conditionally permit a major tourism project in Athens, saying it cleared...
Horses to Power Helsinki Horse Show, With Droppings
Horse manure will generate electricity for an international horse show in Finland this month in a new form of alternative...
Yellen: Fed Committed to Easing Regulations on Smaller Banks
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Wednesday that the Fed is committed to making sure that the regulations it imposes...
US Business Groups Say WTO Unable to Curb Many Chinese Trade Practices
U.S. business groups expressed frustration on Wednesday with what they said are China’s efforts to tilt the economic playing field...
Tourists Trickle Back to Tunisia After 2015 Militant Attacks
Dozens of tourists pack beach chairs at a Tunisian luxury hotel, where everything from the swimming pool to the wall...
Will Your Job Be Automated? 70 Percent of Americans Say No
Most Americans believe their jobs are safe from the spread of automation and robotics, at least during their lifetimes, and...
Cambodian Virtual Reality Helps Train Bomb-disposal Techs
A lab in Cambodia is using cutting-edge technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, machine learning, swarm robotics and 3-D...
Senate Bill to Clear Obstacles to Self-driving Cars Advances
Legislation that could help usher in a new era of self-driving cars advanced in Congress on Wednesday after the bill’s...
Yahoo Says All 3 Billion Accounts Hacked in 2013 Data Theft
Yahoo on Tuesday said that all 3 billion of its accounts were hacked in a 2013 data theft, tripling its...
Ford Plans $14B in Cost Cuts as Part of New CEO’s Strategy
Ford Motor Co.’s new CEO plans to cut $14 billion in costs, drop some car models and focus the company’s...
North Korea Accuses US of Imposing ‘Economic Blockade’
North Korea’s U.N. ambassador accused the United States on Tuesday of imposing “an economic blockade” on his country and deploying...
UN Says Recovery of Eastern Caribbean Could Cost $1 Billion
The recovery of eastern Caribbean islands hardest hit by recent hurricanes, including Dominica, Barbuda, Turks and Caicos, the British Virgin...
Study: Las Vegas Shooting Was Twitter’s Saddest Day Ever
The mass shooting in Las Vegas, in which at least 59 people were killed and more than 500 injured, was...
European Court Asked to Rule on Facebook Data Transfers
The European Court of Justice has been asked to consider whether Facebook’s Dublin-based subsidiary can legally transfer users’ personal data...
India’s Economy Hits Bump, Grows at Slowest Pace in 3 Years
After several years of struggling to make a living doing odd jobs in and around his village, 26-year-old Pushkar Singh...
