CHATHAM, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Residents and business owners in the beach communities of Cape Cod and nearby islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard hung plywood over their shop windows on Friday and rued the arrival of Hurricane ...

Turner Construction Company, one of the largest and most important construction management companies in the United States, is in charge of the project management of the impressive Burj Dubai, or Dubai Tower. On January 4, 2010, the world's highest building was inaugurated.

Nonfarm payrolls fell by 54000 in August, though short of the expected 90000 slide, while the unemployment rate reached 9.6%. Stocks pared some of their gains by midday trading on Friday, fueld by better-than-expected August nonfarm payrolls, ...

Reliance Industries is the largest conglomerate in India and is ranked 206th in the Fortune Global 500 List.

Arshad Butt/AP By SALMAN MASOOD ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A blast ripped through a Shiite protest, the second such attack in three days, in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday, killing at least 40 people and wounding 80, police and rescue ...

A strong earthquake hit near New Zealand's second-largest city, Christchurch, early Saturday. There were no immediate reports of major damage, but Radio New Zealand described the quake as “severe” and reported that power was out across the city. ...

JERUSALEM — As the Israeli and Palestinian leaders pledged at the peace summit meeting in Washington this week to try to resolve the core issues that have long divided their people and bloodied the land, a growing number of ...

Controversy over the New York and other mosques underlines the struggle to balance values of religious tolerance with fears, real and imagined, in an age of terrorism. New York firefighters were among those who came out in late August to protest the ...

AP MIAMI — Investigators today released a scientist detained at Miami International Airport after screeners spotted a metal canister in his luggage that looked like a pipe bomb, prompting an evacuation, a senior law enforcement official ...