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Qantas is celebrating Movember by flying a mustache-clad Boeing 737.

There are about 900,000 buildings in the five boroughs of New York City, the city Department of Buildings predicts, and a lone Brooklyn artist is attempting to draw them all.

President Barack Obama spent a weekend reiterating his belief the United States' economic future rests upon success across its westward ocean, engaging in the leaders of 21 nations in the Pacific Rim during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Hawaii.

Ivanhoe Mines said on Monday that construction at its Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project in Mongolia will be 70 percent complete by the end of 2011, with commercial production seen in the first half of 2013.

India's headline inflation was unchanged in October, worse than forecast and above the 9 percent mark for the eleventh straight month.

Canada and Mexico want to join talks to forge a free trade area in the Asia-Pacific region, giving a significant boost to the U.S.-led initiative to foster economic growth by tearing down trade barriers.

Noted cricket writer Peter Roebuck was found dead Saturday at his hotel in South Africa, where he was covering Australia-South Africa Test series.

Australia has hailed the decision to award the 2018 Commonwealth Games to the Gold Coast as a major economic boost to the subtropical beachside region of Queensland.

Canada, Mexico and at least two other countries have expressed interest in joining U.S.-led talks for a pan-Pacific trade pact, a U.S. Republican lawmaker said Friday after Japan asked to take part.

The No. 1 North Carolina Tar Heels and the Michigan State Spartans squared off in college basketball's first-ever Carrier Classic aboard the USS Carl Vinson on Friday.

Patients suffering from Transient Ischemic Attack, commonly known as mini stroke, have 20 percent lower chances of surviving another nine years following the attack, a new report mentions.

MBA programs like Wharton are on a mission to actively seek out military veterans. The school said that employers are also taking special steps to do the same and have veterans take part in internships and management programs.

MF Global's liquidators are struggling to sell the Asian business as one concern because of problems unwinding trading positions, so they may now sell the various country units separately.

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda looked to be struggling on Friday to win backing from his own party for Japan to join talks on a U.S.-led free trade pact that could transform the Japanese economy.

For many Americans Veterans Day means little more than a day off work or a day to watch Saving Private Ryan and fly a flag out front of their home. But Veterans Day has a long history and its meaning goes much deeper than such minor gestures.

Australia became the first country to ban all colorful logos and other branding on the outside of cigarette packages Thursday. New legislation states that all cigarettes must be sold in plain packaging starting in December of next year.

DiCaprio turns 37 on Friday, Nov. 11.

Tropical bacteria produces a previously-unknown toxin that shuts down its hosts years, sometimes decades, later, researchers found.

The Family Circus creator Bil Keane, whose kid-friendly comic strip gave readers a funny version of his own life at home and became one of the most widely syndicated cartoon panels in the world, has died at age 89, his distributor said on Wednesday.

As the Eurozone Crisis boils, Ireland's continuous difficulties remain glaringly evident, in spite of the Nov. 2010 bailout.

Gold Fields Ltd.'s third-quarter profit tripled from the year-earlier quarter as surging gold prices and enhanced efficiency offset higher operating costs, the world's fourth-largest gold miner reported Thursday.