Kevin West

Charles Batten turned a few goats loose on his cow pastures 10 years ago to keep weeds down. They do a great job, but these days they're more valuable for their meat.

America's catfish industry, stung by dropping prices triggered by a flood of cheaper fish from Vietnam, is gearing up for a possible antidumping campaign.

Argentina, facing a deepening financial crisis, was told Saturday by the International Monetary Fund that it had to make greater efforts to overhaul its economy.

A new Japanese supercomputer has taken the title of world's fastest away from an American computer, zipping along nearly five times faster than its closest competitor.

In some parts of the country, so-called "junk faxes" are banned as an annoying, costly burden to the recipient. Not so in Missouri, where a federal judge ruled last month that unsolicited fax ads are free speech, protected under the Constitution.

Beneath a canopy of conifers, about 40 weather-beaten mobile homes arranged at odd angles along narrow paths make up Beulah in the Pines, a village on wheels that has rolled well past its glory days.

With a weekend of largely peaceful protests behind them, police braced for more demonstrations Monday that could cause traffic disruptions in the capital as the work week resumed.

Russian prosecutors are still investigating what happened to a $4.8 billion IMF loan received in 1998 that some claim may have been laundered through a New York bank.

Gasoline prices edged down more than half a cent in the past two weeks despite tensions in oil-producing regions in the Middle East and South America.

Justin Leonard survived some anxious moments Sunday to win the WorldCom Classic, a feat even he considered unlikely just days ago.