Jamelle Agbuis

While Washington was busy holding the global markets hostage and placing billions in badly needed R&D funding on the chopping block, a new report from REN21

A few months ago, my youngest daughter was prescribed an asthma inhaler in order to treat her moderate to severe breathing difficulties during allergry season.

It's easier than ever for students to get their hands on high-quality fake IDs.

Is it possible for Hollywood's ultra demanding movie sets to be environment-friendly? The set of the film "The Help" initiated that it is possible for Hollywood to turn to "Ecollywood."

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For the first time in a fortnight, investors will start the trading week without the threat of a major market slump.

It's another big week for the markets and economy here and offshore. Will the markets settle, or will we face more of last week's craziness?

Gold and oil both finished a difficult week down at the close on Friday for differing reasons.

There's a lot of crazy news, it seems, happening around the world: London riots, stock market volatility, rising food inflation, and so on. But the way through all this is to focus on SOLUTIONS that help us be better prepared for the hard times that are already beginning to unfold around us.

New Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) laws are set to be rolled out on 1 January 2012, and contain fundamental shifts from what has been mandated in the past.

Victoria's Patrick Shaw (Genesys Wealth) claimed a slender lead after stage 3 in the Eastern Oak Tour of Geelong, the fifth event in the Cycling Australia 2011 National Road Series.

Should a wild animal be forced to sell car insurance, dance the Macarena, and smoke cigars to provoke a laugh? Not that it matters if there were millions of chimpanzees around to abuse, but a new study concludes that chimpanzees may be doomed as a species as long as the public continues to see them in commercials and movies.

GS1 Recallnet, a new national product recall service to remove potentially harmful grocery, food, liquor and other products from the supply chain, was launched Australia-wide August 10, 2011.

Suddenly the same analysts and 'experts' who have been negative on Telstra, are fans after the company reported a smaller than expected fall in earnings for the year to June 30; a result that included rising revenues and profits from mobile phones and telecoms.

Another month of Chinese economic data (which was dribbled out in a surprisingly vague manner over a number of days) tells us that growth engine of the global economy remains beating and performing well.

The new documentary film "Buck" chronicles the life of real-life "horse whisperer" Buck Brannaman and his work to help, as he calls them, "horses with people problems." The film follows Brannaman as he tours the country, giving guardians a deeper understanding of their horses and, at the same time, insight into themselves.

Gartner has released worldwide handset sales for the second quarter 2011 based on end-users preference of operating systems installed on smartphones and these aren't good numbers for Microsoft.

Web-based file storage and content sharing service Box.net on Thursday unveiled three new apps for the tablet world: one for Android Honeycomb, one for BlackBerry PlayBook, and one for HTML5-compatible browsers.

Sara Lee has entered an agreement to sell its North American refrigerated dough business to fellow US food group Ralcorp Holdings.

A new study published in the journal Pediatrics adds to this, having found that pregnant women who supplement with Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) during their pregnancies produce children that are much healthier and less prone to sickness than those born to women who do not supplement with, or otherwise consume enough, DHA.

Well, looking at yesterday's Commonwealth Bank full year result, several points stand out.

The US Food and Drug Administration has a long history of conducting armed, SWAT-style raids on farmers, cancer treatment pioneers and dietary supplement manufacturers.

Over the last couple of years, companies have come to view me as a writer who mostly covers Android.

It would appear that U.S. companies are ready to abandon WiMAX.

Piriform has released the third public beta of its forthcoming CCleaner for Mac. Based on the popular Windows version, CCleaner for Mac offers various cleaning tools for parts of the operating system, and is a freeware release.

As of today, Amazon's Kindle e-reader is available on all platforms.

Electrical retailer Harvey Norman yesterday joined rival JB Hi-Fi, Colorado, Borders/Angus and Robertson and the Premier Retail group of chains in restructuring operations to meet the challenge of weak sales, cautious consumers who are saving madly and the strong Australian dollar.

Yesterday's cat-and-mouse chase, where Apple and Exxon Mobile kept passing one another, didn't last today. Apple's market capitalization surpassed Exxon's early in the day and stayed that way though market close.

Bloggers with Gizmodo will escape prosecution surrounding the receipt of an iPhone 4 prototype last year, which the site paid for and ultimately reported on.