Jamelle Agbuis

Ford Motor Co.'s board of directors is due to meet on Thursday. The Ford Motor Co.'s board will probably discuss the most pressing issue facing the American car maker - the retirement of Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally.

Is today Big Wednesday? Well, if you had to pick a day when the market could blow out - in either direction - you could do worse than today.

This is the last day of the Mont Pelerin Society meeting in Prague, and I am writing from inside Prague Castle, where we have been the guests of the Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus.

Japan's swimming team brought home 11 medals from the 2012 London Olympic Games (three silver and 8 bronze). It is the second largest number of medals in Japanese Swimming history at the Olympics, together with the equally successful tally of 11 medals earned at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. Japan picked up their biggest medal tally, 12, at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, USA.

Like Chicken Little running around screaming, "the sky is falling," too many mainstream media and doctors have issued dire warnings about deadly bacteria that are no longer susceptible to antibiotics, leaving people virtually helpless if Big Pharma doesn't soon find more drugs that can kill potentially deadly germs.

"Womb to the Tomb" was actually the theme of the national pharmaceutical convention a few years ago. Big Pharma isn't even bashful about wanting all of us on meds before we even get here, and certainly for our whole lives.

Australian Born '93 Jnr Womens Tour: Aussies finish fourth in Greece

People with hearing aids or cochlear implants who visit the audiology clinic and Listening Center at Johns Hopkins can expect much clearer and enhanced sound the next time they check-in at the reception desk, their numbers are called over the public speaker system, or are given directions to clinic examination rooms.

The year is 1847. Physicians in America are not enjoying competing with inexpensive, natural remedies, which are offered by Indians and skilled midwives.

FedEx Corp.'s shares dropped roughly 3 percent in after-market trading as the company, which is the world's largest express parcel service by revenue, informed about cutting outlooks on earnings for its just-completed first quarter.

Bacon. That's been the secret to everything all along. If only we'd known! We would have told you sooner. More on the power of bacon shortly.

"Jesus had one message... and one message only," said the man with white hair and a white beard, "it was love."

Almost a third of the economy faces a digital "big bang" over the next three years, pushing companies as diverse as retailers, banks and real estate agents to rethink their strategies, a new report says.

It is imperative to note that many pediatricians and other physicians are not experienced in diagnosing autism or any of the related autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

Royal Dutch Shell started oil drilling in the Chukchi Sea, just 70 miles off the coast of northwest Alaska. The company, however, has begun just preparatory oil drilling for the well in the Arctic after waiting 4 long years since it paid roughly $2.8 billion to the federal government for petroleum leases in the Chukchi Sea.

The economy of Australia has once again enjoyed a solid growth thereby outpacing its peers in the last quarter. But the tumbling prices of export and marked slowdown in China left them with very little time to celebrate. These factors actually resulted in a cut in the Australian rates of interest so as to safeguard their growth in future.

Last week we examined Bernanke's dishonesty; today we'll examine his insanity.

China will try to do what's right for her, not for Australia. But sometimes we're not sure China even knows what's 'right'. There are so many competing forces in a centrally planned economy that no one knows what's going on.

Automobile manufacturer, General Motors, was forced to halt the affected Chevrolet delivery of certain vehicles, including some of its most popular vehicles of 2013, due to a problem with the software that is affecting the OnStar communication technology equipped in their vehicles.

Women with a family history of breast cancer are often encouraged to be tested to see if they carry a mutation in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes which control the suppression of breast and ovarian cancer.

Fall allergies may pack a wallop this year. Here's how you can find relief.

Royal Dutch Shell started oil drilling in the Chukchi Sea, just 70 miles off the coast of northwest Alaska. The company, however, has begun just preparatory oil drilling for the well in the Arctic after waiting 4 long years since it paid roughly $2.8 billion to the federal government for petroleum leases in the Chukchi Sea.

In an effort to protect breeding zones, preserves once open to eco-tourism have been shut down. Critics say it's a misguided effort likely to backfire.

The National Heart Foundation of Australia is concerned that heart disease rates could start to rise again after a new report showed that Australians have become heavier, less active and are eating fewer vegetables over the last decade.

That day-old Starbucks croissant may not need to go into the garbage after all. A new technique developed by Carol S. K. Lin, a biochemical engineer at the City University of Hong Kong, could turn uneaten pastries and coffee grounds into useful chemicals which could be used to formulate bioplastics and other substances.

Cultivated and used medicinally for thousands of years all around the world, ginger root is a powerful medicinal herb that offers a variety of unique health benefits.

Several years ago, drug giant Pfizer Inc. tried to pull a fast one in Jamaica where several local companies were legally distributing generic versions of Pfizer's formerly-patented blood pressure drug Norvasc (Amlodipine). Though the drug was already off-patent elsewhere, Pfizer still tried to sue the distributors in Jamaica for patent infringement, and is now being summoned to fork over about $1 billion.

It's a bit shocking that until the last year or so, Australia managed to run a trade deficit during a resource boom. The tables below from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade show that from May 2004 to June 2008 - a period during which the All Ordinaries went up 98%, from 3,401 to a high of 6,760 - Australia recorded a trade deficit in 51 consecutive months. We even wrote about a longer streak of 75 consecutive months of trade deficits at the time.

Christian Louboutin, the world-known French shoemaker, won a trademark protection for its women's shoes with red soles and different colored tops.