Entrepreneurial boot camps at several universities are teaching disabled veterans the skills needed to start and expand small businesses and help them find financing for their ideas.

The nation’s third-biggest warehouse club said sales in the second quarter rose almost 18 percent as frugal shoppers sought deals amid the slumping economy.

South Koreans hope to turn the Kaesong Industrial Park into a capitalist foothold that might some day undermine the Stalinist North Korean state.

Thousands of homeowners with distressed mortgage loans linked to the failed lender IndyMac may soon be able to avoid foreclosure under a program announced Wednesday by banking regulators.

Barack Obama is both more left-wing and more right-wing than many people realize. A 15-year debate among economics experts in the Democratic Party helps explain why.

A federal judge has ordered a research company to supply an experimental drug to a 16-year-old Minnesota boy who is terminally ill with muscular dystrophy.

British competition authorities called for the breakup of BAA in a preliminary report that recommended the sale of two of its three airports serving London and one in Scotland.

The retailer said profit edged up in the second quarter and sales rose almost 18 percent as frugal shoppers sought deals at discounters.

On Tuesday, Chris Russo of WFAN became the star, director and executive producer of Mad Dog Radio.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is seeking to put wind turbines on New York City’s bridges and skyscrapers and in its waters as part of a push to develop renewable energy.

The move is just one of the changes eBay has made in the last few months aimed at reducing its dependence on its auction business, which is growing more slowly than fixed-price sales.

Palm is trying to revive itself as business users have embraced the BlackBerry and consumers have fell in love with the iPhone.

Landau called himself a “First Amendment guerrilla,” and used his education as a lawyer in advocacy for journalists around the country.

Financial conditions are continuing to worsen at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, leading some investors to prepare for a government bailout of the housing giants.

With the housing market in the doldrums and inflation running at a pace unseen in nearly two decades, consumers are not buying new homes. Instead they are focusing on repairs.

A family says a drug company led them to believe that their 16-year-old son could participate in a clinical trial for an experimental muscular dystrophy drug, but then went back on its word.

The Carlyle Group said that Louis V. Gerstner Jr., the former I.B.M. chief who became the private equity firm’s chairman five years ago, would step down from that post on Sept. 30.

The Bank of Japan delivered its bleakest assessment of the economy since the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis.

De Beers, the world’s largest producer of rough diamonds, said prices had increased an average of 16 percent since the beginning of the year.

Medtronic, the medical device maker, reported higher-than-expected quarterly earnings, citing cost savings and strong overseas sales of its devices to treat heart conditions.