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Dominic Rushe
New Bob Marley marijuana gon’ make you feel irie
The reggae singer’s family is on board with a private firm to launch ‘Marley Natural’, a strain of marijuana meant for healing.
Yellen’s over, now the work begins
Reversing QE has begun and the challenge now is for the Fed’s new chairperson to keep it in check.
WTF, NSA? Tech giants vent spy fury
Google and Yahoo! are fuming over revelations that the agency intercepted their users’ records.
US takes a closer look at digital currency
United States authorities increase scrutiny of the digital currency.
Google: Don’t expect privacy when sending to Gmail
People sending emails to Google’s Gmail users have no "reasonable expectation" that it will be confidential, says the company in a court filing.
Detroit’s wheels come off
Bankruptcy is seen as the motor city’s last resort and even then its recovery will be difficult.
Tough start to US-EU free-trade talks
The US and the European Union start talks to create the world’s largest free-trade agreement, amid diplomatic tensions over recent spying revelations.
Boeing puts grounded Dreamliner through its paces
Boeing has completed the first successful tests of its troubled Dreamliner 787 since the jet was grounded following battery fires.
BP knew of risks but put cutbacks above safety – expert
BP’s "every dollar counts" culture led to the fatal Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
Paul Ryan and the share trading scandal
The US vice-presidential candidate has denied he profited from a 2008 meeting with the Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke.
Global slowdown chips away at McDonald’s boom
McDonald’s, the fast food giant that managed to ride out much of the Great Recession, has been bitten by the global slowdown.
Microsoft takes on iPad with Surface tablets
Microsoft has launched its own series of tablet computers as the tech giant fights to regain ground lost to Apple’s hugely popular iPad.
Buyers baulk at cost of ‘green’ cars
A lot still needs to happen in the alternative fuels vehicle market before sales figures start to rise.
New York police arrest ‘lone wolf’ terror suspect
An "al-Qaeda sympathiser" has been arrested in New York for allegedly planning bomb attacks targeting soldiers, police cars and post offices.
Las Vegas: A tale of two cities
The rich are having the best of times while the middle and lower classes are struggling to survive.