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We are in negotiations," said Ukraine's Naftogaz chief executive Oleh Dubyna told the European parliament after meeting with Alexei Miller, the chief of Russia's OAO Gazprom, according to Reuters. "I can see just purely economic gaps between Naftogaz and Gazprom,"...

Seeking to revive its sharply fallen fortunes and produce a successor to its aging Treo device, Palm unveiled a new smartphone, the Pre, on Thursday and an exclusive partnership with Sprint to distribute it. Palm says the device and the new...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working with public health officials in 42 states to determine the cause of an outbreak of a particular type of salmonella called Typhimurium. According to CDC sources, at least 388 people have...

Police in western North Carolina say they have derailed a 15-year-old's plot to shoot up his school, thanks to a a tip from a teen in New York...Brian Kreigsman said Thursday the suspect told a 16-year-old girl on Jan. 2...

The Food and Drug Administration says patients should not stop taking Vytorin or other cholesterol-lowering drugs, based on its review of a controversial study. The agency is sticking to its original position that medicines that reduce bad cholesterol benefit patients...

Thousands of residents returned to their homes Thursday, thankful that an erratic, fast-moving wildfire fanned by high winds in Boulder County spared all but two homes. Crews made steady progress encircling the blaze and called the lack of casualties and...

a maker of radio frequency identification and mobile computing technologies, announced today it is reducing its global workforce by 7 percent, or about 150 full-time positions. The layoffs will be mostly in sales, general, and administrative areas, and are expected...

The Wichita Eagle Butler County investigators today are reviewing their findings from the Wednesday search of a rural Sedgwick County home as they attempt to find out what happened to Adam Herrman. The investigators, along with Wichita police, served a...