An interim approach to total hip replacement is offering an alternative that still leaves open the possibility of successfully receiving an artificial hip later in life.

AP - Global finance officials hoped to make more progress Saturday on remaking the International Monetary Fund to give countries with emerging economies a greater voice in its operations, but their talks were clouded by controversy surrounding World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz.

AP - Global finance officials hoped to make progress Saturday on remaking the International Monetary Fund to give countries with emerging economies a greater voice in its operations, but their talks were clouded by controversy surrounding World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz.

Reuters - DaimlerChrysler (DCXGn.DE) Chief Executive Dieter Zetsche wants to keep a minority holding in U.S. automaker Chrysler and only sell a majority stake in the business, Der Spiegel magazine reported.

Reuters - Finance chiefs from the world's rich nations meeting on Friday were expected to offer assurances that the global economy can withstand a U.S. slowdown while keeping a watchful eye on currency volatility.

Reuters - World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz must decide whether he still has the credibility to head the institution, following controversy over his handling of a promotion for his girlfriend, a German minister said on Saturday.

AP - Global finance officials hoped to make progress Saturday on remaking the International Monetary Fund so countries with emerging economies gain a greater role.

David A. Stockman, President Ronald Reagan?s budget director, is facing a trial next year on fraud charges.

During the last several years, unmanned aerial vehicles ? known as U.A.V.?s ? have amassed unusual political firepower.

The market for drugs to control and treat diseases of aging and for appearance-related products and services is expected to reach $71 billion a year by 2009.

Does ?advertainment? cross an unseen line between commercial message and content where consumers ought not to go?

Private banks and lenders have for years waged a successful campaign to limit a federal program that was intended to make borrowing less costly.

A more active downtown is adding to demand for more guest rooms.

As digital single-lens-reflex cameras have become more affordable, more people ? overwhelmingly women ? are starting photography businesses.

Let?s pause for a moment to be grateful for some of the marvelous developments in investing innovations.

Many people think national origin can shape a career in technology.

Manufacturers are selling docking stations for iPods and MP3 players with amplifiers based on an old but resilient technology: vacuum tubes.

Conditions in the bond market make the current prospects for the stock market worse than these figures suggest, an analyst said.

The best-performing stocks of the recent past tend to keep beating the market ? just as past losers continue to lag behind. But why?

Michael Altman has filled most of the low-level jobs at his chocolate factory with ex-convicts. It?s part of a personal mission to be a good corporate citizen after a career as an executive recruiter.

?Everyone wanted us to be successful in fighting spam,? said Enrique T. Salem, group president, worldwide sales and marketing, Symantec.

Sometimes, roots of on-the-job violence are noticed only after it happens.

Auctions make money, but how much goes to shareholders?

The X-Paste was inspired by Stewart Robertson?s children, who would leave half-squeezed toothpaste tubes uncapped.

Requesting the coveted H-1B visa, from India to Silicon Valley.

A growing number of taxpayers across the region have been finding themselves paying the alternative minimum tax.

Faced with financial losses, Lego has had to lay off employees at its North American headquarters, sell its 230-acre campus and move production to Mexico.

In Britain, the old alma mater is learning how to tap the shuddering alumni.

This year, the calendar has been generous, offering two loopholes to last-minute federal income tax filers.

Richard M. Scrushy was ordered to wear a G.P.S. tracking device after prosecutors accused him of trying to flee the country in February.

?How the consumer acts is how the economy will act,? an analyst says.

The stock market rose again last week, fighting off a decline on Wednesday brought about by the release of the minutes of the last Federal Reserve policy meeting.

AP - Global finance officials agreed Saturday the International Monetary Fund needs to strengthen and modernize its exchange rate monitoring policies to ensure their effectiveness as globalization deepens.

AP - Finance officials expressed satisfaction Saturday with the robust expansion of the global economy but said more must be done to correct trade imbalances.

Reuters - China on Saturday pledged to gradually increase the flexibility of its currency as part of broader policy measures agreed by five major economic players to address global economic imbalances.

AFP - Globalisation for French presidential candidates is all about factories closing and moving to China. They don't like to mention that Paris-based Carrefour, the world's second largest retailer after Wal-Mart, is making a killing there, and that France is one of the richest countries in the world thanks to free trade.