LOS ANGELES (AP) - Organizers say two million people marched in protest against seed giant Monsanto in hundreds of rallies across the U.S.

WASHINGTON�The number of U.S. workers seeking new unemployment benefits fell last week by more than expected, another sign of slow improvement in the labor market.

Orders for U.S. durable goods increased more than forecast in April, indicating the world's largest economy will get a lift in the second half of the year as business investment strengthens.

MEXICO CITY | Fri May 24, 2013 6:57pm EDT. MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico is considering imposing retaliatory trade measures on the United States in a dispute over the fairness of U.S.

By Herbert Lash. NEW YORK | Fri May 24, 2013 4:35pm EDT. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global equity markets slipped on Friday over worries the U.S.

Don Thompson, CEO of McDonald's Corp., found himself on the grill after a 9-year-old girl accused the fast food giant of trying to "trick kids into eating food that isn't good for them.

News Corp has announced a "shareholder rights plan" that would allow existing shareholders to buy stock at a 50 per cent discount if anybody were to buy 15 per cent or more of either company's class B voting shares.

TORONTO�Shares in Barrick Gold Corp. were halted midday Friday, just after the Chilean government fined the world's largest gold miner $15.8 million for alleged breaches in environmental controls at its flagship Pascua-Lama mine, raising fresh questions ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe today becomes the first Japanese leader to visit Myanmar in 36 years as his nation's companies seek to invest in the former dictatorship, which has some of the cheapest labor in Asia.

The California condor's slow 20-year climb back from the brink of extinction has long been a fragile not-quite-success story in the conservation world.