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Service sector business activity declined in June, according to a key survey released Thursday that showed continued economic weakness.
A key measure of the nation's manufacturing activity rose unexpectedly in June, reaching a level that indicated expansion in the sector for the first time since January.
The Federal Reserve left its key short-term interest rate unchanged Wednesday at 2%, marking the first time in the nine months that it did not cut rates.
Consumers and economists strongly disagree about which direction the economy is going.
It wasn't so long ago that biofuels were being heralded as the savior of the planet and a thoroughly green solution to our climate woes. But fair winds have been replaced by persistent storms of criticism. But is it justified? Principal Voices has spoken to three people -- an economist, a scientist and an environmental campaigner -- at the heart of the biofuels debate. Here, they have their say on biofuels. Have yours at bottom of the page.
World food production must rise by 50% by 2030 to meet increasing demand, UN chief Ban Ki-moon told world leaders
Initial claims for unemployment benefits fell last week, a Labor Department report issued Thursday showed.
Industrial production fell in April, matching the largest decline since the one following Hurricane Katrina, according to a report released by the Federal Reserve on Thursday.
It appears the global food crisis can be averted. The solution? The humble potato.
The trade deficit rose in February, contrary to an expected decrease, according to a government report Thursday.
Service sector business activity declined in June, according to a key survey released Thursday that showed continued economic weakness.
A key measure of the nation's manufacturing activity rose unexpectedly in June, reaching a level that indicated expansion in the sector for the first time since January.
The Federal Reserve left its key short-term interest rate unchanged Wednesday at 2%, marking the first time in the nine months that it did not cut rates.
Consumers and economists strongly disagree about which direction the economy is going.
It wasn't so long ago that biofuels were being heralded as the savior of the planet and a thoroughly green solution to our climate woes. But fair winds have been replaced by persistent storms of criticism. But is it justified? Principal Voices has spoken to three people -- an economist, a scientist and an environmental campaigner -- at the heart of the biofuels debate. Here, they have their say on biofuels. Have yours at bottom of the page.
World food production must rise by 50% by 2030 to meet increasing demand, UN chief Ban Ki-moon told world leaders
Initial claims for unemployment benefits fell last week, a Labor Department report issued Thursday showed.
Industrial production fell in April, matching the largest decline since the one following Hurricane Katrina, according to a report released by the Federal Reserve on Thursday.
It appears the global food crisis can be averted. The solution? The humble potato.
The trade deficit rose in February, contrary to an expected decrease, according to a government report Thursday.
In a surprising flash of good news for the U.S. economy, businesses added jobs in March, according to a survey of private sector employers released Wednesday.
Construction spending fell in February, according to a government report released Tuesday, but the decline was less than expected.
Two United Nations contract workers, a Briton and a Kenyan, were kidnapped Tuesday in southern Somalia, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.
It is said that nowhere else on earth will the impacts of climate change be felt more acutely than in the developing world.
It is commonly said that we know more about the Moon than the deep blue sea.
New filings for unemployment claims fell last week, according to a report released Thursday by the Labor Department.
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The bird flu virus could become endemic in Turkey and poses a serious risk to neighboring countries, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says.
While health officials have serious concerns about the H5N1 bird flu virus becoming a pandemic, they say it won't be a worldwide threat until the virus is able to spread easily between people.
Small-scale farmers across Asia will need to modify their animal husbandry practices if a bird-flu pandemic is to be avoided, world health experts have been told.
The World Health Organization is trying to calm fears that the reported infection of cats with bird flu could signal an increased risk to humans.
United Nations health experts have issued stern warnings about bird flu as the human death toll in Asia rises to 18.
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