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343 projects have been shortlisted for the World Building of the Year award at the 2016 World Architecture Festival,which will be taking place in Berlin this November. The WAF shortlist features entries from 58 different countries, with buildings by...

Water wars? The story below is yet another "resources running out" story and as silly as most.  There are two obvious replies to the scare:  One in Australia and one in Israel. Australia is an unusually dry country on the whole, though there are some...

We begin with CNBC, delivering the blow: 1.3 million losing unemployment benefits Saturday More than 1 million Americans are bracing for a harrowing, post-Christmas jolt as extended federal unemployment benefits come to a sudden halt this weekend,...

Brokers Juan and Li Chen, from left, have capitalized on booming Chinese demand for New York real estate. (Sasha Maslov) It is not unheard of in certain towns on Long Island’s rarified Gold Coast—in Brookville and Manhasset, for example...

25 August 2016 — Thursday YESTERDAY in GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUM and PALLADIUM The gold price didn’t do much of anything in Far East and London trading on their Wednesday — and was a up a buck and change by 8:40 a.m. in New York.  Then ‘da boyz’ pulled...