Gunmen in the restive Pakistani province of Balochistan on Thursday shot and killed five Shiite Muslims traveling in a van and two U.N. employees, local officials said.
Initial jobless claims fell to their lowest level in nearly four years, another sign of improvement in the long-suffering labor market.
It may not be enough to make up for sluggish wages, but consumers are starting to get a slight break from rising prices.
The U.S. Postal Service appears to be the latest casualty in digital technology's slow but steady replacement of working humans. Unless an external source of funding comes in, the post office will have to scale back its operations drastically, or simply shut down altogether. That's 600,000 people who would be out of work, and another 480,000 pensioners facing an adjustment in terms.
About 13% of the world's population is undernourished, according to the most recent statistics from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
The U.S. labor force is shrinking, as more Americans are giving up hope.
Stacy Gardner works as a shopping concierge at a Los Angeles mall, and not only has work slowed, but her own typically insatiable desire to shop has deteriorated as well.
It decimated herds and caused disaster, devastation and death associated with the fall of the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the colonization of Africa.
The United Nations said Wednesday that about 1.3 billion tons of food is lost or wasted every year, which amounts to roughly one third of all the food produced for human consumption.
With the world's population set to reach the seven billion milestone later this year the challenge of feeding our planet has never been more urgent.
Omnivorous tilapia are one of the easiest and most profitable fish to farm - and they're sustainable.
Food prices worldwide continued to rise in February, and the recent spike in oil prices could push food costs even higher in the months ahead, according to a report from the United Nations.
Supermarket chain Wegmans Food Markets has pledged to not raise prices on 40 products this year, despite rising commodity and energy prices.
Supermarket chain Weegmans Food Markets has pledged to not raise prices on 40 products this year, despite rising commodity and energy prices.
Wall Street has been riding a wave of strong corporate profits for months, but surging commodities prices are making some investors nervous about earnings growth in the second half of the year.
World food prices rose to an all-time high in January, according to the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
High hopes for December's employment numbers were dashed Friday, when the Labor Department reported disappointing job gains for the month. But the unemployment rate took a surprising dive.
In another hopeful sign for the job market, the number of Americans filing for their first week of unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell for the third week in a row.
About 5 million North Koreans will continue to face food shortages because of a grain deficit, two United Nations agencies warned Tuesday.
The number of new jobs in the government's October employment report was good news. But the improvement in wages might be even better news.
Citizens of the Ivory Coast headed to the polls Sunday for a repeatedly delayed presidential election -- the first in a decade for the top cocoa-producing west African nation.
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