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Deputy Chairman Berthold Huber will temporarily assume leadership of the board until the election of a new chairman, Volkswagen said.

The Airbus A320, carrying 97 passengers on board, left a trail of sparks and smoke as it landed.

The Southwest Airlines flight 100, carrying 175 passengers and six crew members, was traveling from Las Vegas to Milwaukee.

The system failure had affected 7,000 company-operated stores in the U.S. and 1,000 stores in Canada.

A glitch in the company's point-of-sale systems led to locations across the U.S. and Canada giving away coffee and tea.

First synthesized in the 1930s, BMPEA is believed to aid in weight loss. It's derived from the Acacia rigidula plant.

The nation's largest electric utility is facing fresh criticism from North Carolinians over its handling of toxic coal ash.

Shares of the biotechnology firm fell as much as 8 percent Friday after sales of its multiple-sclerosis drug missed the analysts’ estimate for the first quarter.

Tesla’s high-tech luxury electric car is piquing interest from car-hailing and taxi companies worldwide.

A Canadian mining mogul claims the millions he donated to the Clinton Foundation were not an attempt to woo Hillary Clinton's support for a Colombian free trade agreement.

U.S. shares traded higher Friday, led by Amazon, Microsoft and Starbucks. The Nasdaq composite index topped its closing high from the previous session.

The class action focuses on Facebook’s photo-tagging feature, which suggests tags that may ID the user’s friends.

A paper published Friday in the journal Science found about 7 million acres of land was lost to oil and gas activities between 2000 and 2012.

Participants at this week's Marijuana Investors Summit in Denver say that for the weed industry to really blossom, it needs both capital investment and legal reform.

Shareholders have urged the bank to consider moving its headquarters to Asia, due to a hefty UK bank tax and other London-based costs.

The official search for Flight MH370 is currently focused on an area hundreds of miles southwest of the location proposed by Andre Milne.

EU officials are concerned about the dependence of the region's economy on Internet-based companies.

The Rana Plaza building collapse in Dhaka in April 2013 killed over 1,100 people and injured over 2,000 others.

Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams recalled all of its products after a sample tested positive for listeria.

But sales of the software maker’s core product, Windows, continue to decline as consumers opt for phones and tablets powered by Android or Apple’s iOS.

The Nasdaq broke a record set more than 15 years ago during the infamous dot-com bubble.

The dry, brown lawns of California look very green to the landscapers who remove and replace them.

Federal scientists have identified 17 areas across eight states that have seen a substantial rise in man-made earthquakes since 2000.

Google, pharmaceutical companies and electric utilities are among the top 10 lobbying companies and groups so far in 2015.

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said that governments need to build smart, environmentally responsible cities.

The St. Louis coal miner cited softening Chinese demand and falling coal prices for the decline in first-quarter revenues.

A young work force in India has less time to relax at home, but plenty of money for a cappuccino at the McDonald's McCafe counter.

The German automaker is accused of pressurizing dealers in China to set minimum sales prices on some of its cars.

The biotech firm gave no value for the stock offering, but local reports said the company could raise as much as $95 million.