Wall Street indexes declined as a sharp drop in the price of oil weighed on energy stocks.

Officials blamed the 34 percent increase on the recession and promised new efforts to deal with the problem.

Thousands face travel disruption as British Airways cabin crew begin a three-day strike over pay and working conditions.

AP - India's central bank has unexpectedly hiked key interest rates a quarter of a percentage point, as the bank tries to cool high inflation amid a faster-than-expected economic rebound.

AP - Tokyo subway workers observed a moment of silence Saturday to mark the 15th anniversary of a nerve gas attack by a religious cult, Japan's deadliest act of domestic terrorism.

Unions and management dispute the impact of the first day of a three-day strike by British Airways cabin crew.

AP - Thousands of protesters rallied Saturday in several cities across Russia to protest the government's economic policy and demand more political freedoms.

A quarter of a million pensioners will get an £80 discount off their electricity bill this summer

Hundreds of elderly people could face the prospect of having to sell their homes after a 'geared' investment went badly wrong.

Reuters - Democratic Republic of Congo could win a deal to wipe out the bulk of its $11 billion debt in time for June celebrations marking 50 years of independence, the International Monetary Fund said on Saturday.

Reuters - German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said only the most extreme circumstances could justify a bailout of a European Union state from within the union, and any such aid would have to be delivered bilaterally.

British Airways canceled 1,100 flights on Saturday as some cabin crews started a three-day strike in protest over working conditions and pay.

The president called on lawmakers to support a bill being debated next week by the Senate Banking Committee.

Washington Township police said that a 16-year-old boy had been arrested for using the public-address system at a Wal-Mart to order all blacks to leave the store.

As the chief executive of the Golfsmith golf and tennis chain said, ?Selfishly, this is perfect.?

Major United States hotel chains are aggressively expanding into Asia, creating new options for travelers looking for familiar brands abroad.

BA says measures to deal with a strike by cabin crew are working well but unions say scores of planes have been grounded.

Washington Township police said that a 16-year-old boy had been arrested for using the public-address system at a Wal-Mart to order all blacks to leave the store.

A reader writes that it is important to remember that other developed countries pay less than we do, yet cover all their citizens and achieve better health outcomes ? without managing care.

A reader believes we should be praising free and local TV, not burying it.

Carl C. Icahn likes to be called an activist investor, not a raider. But his latest hostile bid for a company came just last week.

Disney paid $4 billion for Marvel Entertainment and its superheroes, but the heirs of Jack Kirby, who helped create many characters, are now fighting it over copyrights.

To bolster the economy, Robert H. Frank suggests a tax on consumption of more than $500,000 a year by families earning more than $1 million.

Strategists warn investors not to assume that the market will perform as well in 2010 as it did in 2009.

For the founder of an unusual gift and stationery products business, many of the very things that led to mistakes have also yielded successes.

Evite became dominant in online invitations by being free to users. Paperless Post, a new rival, is going the pay route.

In a new book, Matthew Bishop and Michael Green say that ?toxic ideas,? not toxic assets, caused the financial crisis.

For a longtime air traffic controller at Kennedy International Airport, all stress is relative.

Eric Hippeau, chief executive of The Huffington Post, decided to become a journalist when he was 12 ? on the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Third-base coach Steve Smith says that teaming up with his daughter Allie in the CBS reality show was more special than winning the World Series with the Phillies in 2008.

When bubbles burst, speculators often get the blame. But maybe they were telling us something we didn?t want to hear.

Society profits little from a dizzying casino.

A lawsuit accuses a group of Wall Street companies of misrepresenting the mortgages underlying $5.4 billion in securities that they sold.

Guy Kawasaki, co-founder of the Alltop news aggregation site, says business schools need to teach students how to communicate more concisely.

Ben S. Bernanke criticized the role of institutions considered ?too big too fail? while the president called on lawmakers to approve a finance bill.

Novell, a maker of business software, said Saturday that it had rejected Elliott Associates' unsolicited $2 billion takeover bid as 'inadequate,' saying the hedge fund's offer 'undervalues the company's franchise and growth prospects.'

New campaign attacks in California are using sophisticated, low-cost technology to create nasty ads.

Ms. Carpenter spent much of her life working in Washington as a newspaper reporter, an aide to Lyndon B. Johnson and press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson.

Thoughts on the enduring power of photojournalism ? and on the death of Charles Moore, one of its great practitioners.

The Christian Science Monitor - The indelible images of ACORN workers helping a faux pimp and prostitute set up a tax shelter for a brothel certainly played into the advocacy group’s slide toward bankruptcy, though its problems began long before last year’s scandal.

A Walgreen executive improperly took a competitor?s proprietary data, forcing the company to withdraw from the bidding for a lucrative Chicago contract.

Reuters - Developed countries with big budget deficits must start now to prepare public opinion for the belt-tightening that will be needed starting next year, the No. 2 official at the IMF said on Sunday.

AFP - GM Daewoo Auto and Technology, the South Korean unit of General Motors, is recalling more than 58,000 vehicles due to manufacturing defects, government officials said Sunday.