Online bridal business sells canceled weddings
Weddings are a costly occasion. And at an average investment of $27,000 for the special day, some brides and grooms may be leery of calling off their weddings.But a new business hopes to reduce this...
View ArticleIn wake of Fukushima, Japan struggling with renewable energy versus nuclear
Two years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, renewable energy is surging in Japan.But economic pressures are also helping revive support for nuclear power, leading to an internal tug-of-war over...
View ArticleDonald Trump loses land battle to Scottish wind farm
Real estate mogul Donald Trump is a character who is hard to ignore.Residents in the Scottish city of Aberdeen are locked in an ongoing battle with Trump, who wants to build a pristine golf resort near...
View ArticlePaid paternity leave, offered for men only, offers dramatic changes in...
Canada's found success in bolstering its economy by getting people to work less.Not just anyone, though. Specifically, men — men who are fathers of newborns. In a report, published online on Tuesday,...
View ArticleMagicians face rash of trickster thieves
Magicians have stolen each other's secrets for as long as the art of magic has existed.But the interconnectivity of today's world is making it easier — and magicians can't always rely on the law to...
View ArticlePacific Northwest governors urge federal officials to look closely at coal...
Editor's Note: This report is part of the Voices of Coal project, from the public media cooperative, EarthFix. The governors of Oregon and Washington State are asking President Barack Obama’s...
View ArticleTwo court cases take diverging path when it comes to digital rights
Two different federal courts this week delivered important and seemingly contradictory decisions about the way we consume digital entertainment.One case involves ReDigi, a platform that lets you resell...
View ArticleAsia Development Bank imagines fleet of electric trikes to help Manila
Sometimes to get around chaotic Manila, you need to take a trike.Trikes are motorcycles with sidecars. In this city with notoriously awful traffic, they’ll get you where you need to go faster than most...
View ArticleOn Guam, little apprehension from North Korea's threatened attack
North Korea has been sending worrisome signals to the world.It recently announced the withdrawal of all North Korean workers from an industrial zone jointly operated with South Korea. That’s after...
View ArticleFrench carmaker brings air-powered hybrid car to market
French car company Peugeot has created a new hybrid car that could be twice as efficient and half as pricy as traditional battery hybrids.The secret? It runs on compressed air.Peugeot engineer Karim...
View ArticleOn South Korean island, tensions high as North Korea's tough talk continues
South Koreans on the Baengnyeong Island, about 10 miles off the coast of North Korea, are worried Pyongyang has singled the island out for a possible attack.Roughly 5,500 South Koreans live on...
View ArticleLondon's water service looking to turn sewer's 'fatbergs' into power
BY Cordelia Hebblethwaite “How far is it?” I ask, my hands tightly gripping onto a slimy, slippery ladder, my heart suddenly surging with a fluttery, paralyzing panic.I’m suited and booted in a white...
View ArticleCommunities seek to forge small business ties between Mexico, U.S.
Mexican entrepreneur Tania Rodriguez ran a successful business distributing auto parts out of Mexico City. She’s now trying to make a go of it in Austin, Texas.“So far, I think that I haven’t been as...
View ArticleChina's economy at crossroads between freer enterprise, state control
Editor's Note: This story is part of a series from PRI's The World, China Past Due. Few places on earth have more entrepreneurial energy than China.Since economic reforms first released that energy 30...
View ArticleAustralia trying to educate citizens on crocodile safety -- to save the...
To understand the situation with saltwater crocodiles in Australia today, it helps to know some history.Grahame Webb, a zoologist who has worked in Northern Australia for four decades, says back in the...
View ArticleChilean social entrepreneur saves families money by taking detergent out of...
For people in a poor neighborhood of Santiago, Chile, money can be so tight that it’s a hardship to buy something as basic as a box of laundry detergent.They often wind up buying laundry soap in small...
View ArticleWoman pulled alive from rubble of Bangladesh factory collapse; expert calls...
In a remarkable turn of events Friday, a woman was pulled, alive, from the rubble of a Bangladesh factory that collapsed more than two weeks ago.The woman, according to The New York Times, is named...
View ArticleActivists see progress in convincing groups to divest from fossil fuels
The movement to divest from fossil fuels is catching fire.Four universities and 10 U.S. cities, including Seattle and San Francisco, have announced plans to divest their holdings in corporations that...
View ArticleBarbie Berlin Dreamhouse draws protests, hand-wringing over opening
Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel has been called the most powerful woman in the world.But this week, another polarizing female figure has attracted attention in Berlin.Global icon and plastic...
View ArticleBusinesses prepare for explosion in deep sea mining activities
After decades of dreaming and scheming, companies say they’re finally ready to start mining the bottom of the world’s oceans for valuable minerals.For Adrian Glover, a marine biologist at London’s...
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