The U.S. Labor Department said Tuesday there were 3.7 million job openings in July, virtually unchanged from June. “The number of openings was little changed in all industries except healthcare and social assistance where the number decreased,” the Bureau of Labor Statistics...

The pace of employment growth is expected to slow in the fourth quarter in China, Brazil and India, a global economic survey found. ManpowerGroup's fourth-quarter 2012 Employment Outlook Survey, released Tuesday, showed employers in all industry sectors in China, Brazil and India...

Exports of U.S. goods and services fell slightly more than imports in July, leaving the trade deficit nearly unchanged, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. The monthly report by the Commerce Department's Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis said exports fell by $1.9 billion...

U.S. stock indexes rose Tuesday morning after the Commerce Department said the U.S. trade deficit was essentially unchanged June to July. With $1.9 billion less exports in July from June and $1.8 billion less imports, the deficit came to $42 billion following a revised figure for June of $41.9...

Crude oil prices headed toward $97 per barrel Tuesday, the high end of a trading range that has dominated the market for more than a month. With few exceptions, West Texas Intermediate crude oil has ranged from $91 to $97 per barrel since early August. October delivery crude oil on Tuesday...

Canada's world trade deficit expanded from $1.9 billion in June to $2.3 billion in July amid shrinking exports, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday. Exports declined by 3.4 percent to $37.7 billion in July, while imports also dipped by 2.2 percent to $40.1 billion, the agency said. The...

An Indian government official blamed foreign organizations, whom he said are seeking to hamper India's nuclear ambitions, for the anti-nuclear power protests in southern India that resulted in the death of one person. A fisherman was killed Monday when police clashed with thousands of...

Amid falling commodity prices and rising costs, two of Australia's mining giants announced cuts totaling 900 jobs. Xstrata Coal, said Monday it will cut 600 jobs in Australia, affecting both permanent staff and contractors. BHP Billiton also said it is slashing 300 positions due to the...

Argentina's nationalized YPF energy company is pursuing talks with Russia's Gazprom to forge a partnership and secure needed cash investment in the company. Argentina nationalized YPF in May, alleging its principal shareholder Repsol of Spain wasn't reinvesting enough...

Prototype U.S. MRAP vehicles equipped with the first fully integrated suite of radios, satellite and other networking systems are ready for testing. The U.S. Army, which designed and developed the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected armored vehicles, said five prototypes were shipped from its Tank...

Nigeria has hired former militants to provide pipeline security in the country's troubled Niger delta. In the past year the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. has paid former Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta members about $43.7 million to guard its oil pipeline...

The United States' first commercially licensed grid-connected wave energy device is in its final stage of testing before its scheduled launch next month in Oregon. The 40-foot-wide, 260-ton PowerBuoy, developed by New Jersey company Ocean Power Technologies, will extend more than 100...

Principal photography has begun on the third and final film in director Todd Phillips” “Hangover” franchise, Hollywood”s Warner Bros. Pictures said. “This time, there”s no wedding. No bachelor party. What could go wrong, right? But when the Wolfpack hits...

Tom Hanks, Stephen King and Jay Leno were among the mourners at the Los Angeles funeral for the late actor Michael Clarke Duncan. Also attending the invitation-only service for “The Green Mile” star Monday at Forest Lawn Memorial-Park and Mortuaries in the Hollywood Hills were...

Singer-actress Jennifer Hudson says she forgives her former brother-in-law for killing three members of her family in Chicago in 2008. William Balfour, the estranged husband of Hudson”s sister Julia, was recently sentenced to life in prison for murdering the entertainer”s...

Lionsgate says principal photography began Monday in Georgia on “Catching Fire,” the sequel to the blockbuster film “The Hunger Games.” The movie is to be shot primarily in existing locations in and near Atlanta, the studio said. Production will move to the beaches...

Carrie Ann Inaba”s publicist says the U.S. reality TV personality and her fiance, accountant Jesse Sloan, have ended their romance. Sloan, 40, proposed to Inaba, 44, on TV”s “Live! with Regis and Kelly” in March 2011. “They decided early in the summer to break...

Director Lana, formerly Larry, Wachowski says it was a big decision to confirm her gender-reassignment at the Toronto International Film Festival. Wearing a dress and sporting pink and purple dreadlocks, the filmmaker was seated with her brother-directing partner Andy, as well as the cast...

Recreational marijuana use was linked to an increased risk of subtypes of testicular cancer that tend to carry a worse prognosis, U.S. researchers say. Victoria Cortessis, assistant professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California in...

“Money & Medicine,” is a film attempting to explain why U.S. healthcare costs $2.2 trillion a year yet ranks poorly with developed nations, the producer says. Recent studies suggest one-third of all U.S. healthcare expenditures were unnecessary, partly because healthcare...

Mitt Romney's Boston staff clarified the presidential candidate's statements about where he stands on health coverage for pre-existing medical conditions. “Well, I'm not getting rid of all of healthcare reform,” the Republican challenger said on NBC's...

Background noise causes ears of those with hearing impairments to work differently, U.S. researchers say. Kenneth S. Henry, a postdoctoral researcher, and Michael G. Heinz, an associate professor at Purdue University, said hearing loss, suffered in varying degrees by 36 million U.S. adults...

U.S. researchers say many people who should avoid gluten in their diet don't, yet many who are not affected by the protein shy away from it needlessly. Dr. Joseph Murray, a gastroenterologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., said celiac disease is an immune reaction to eating...

Central line-associated bloodstream infections in U.S. hospital intensive care patients dropped 40 percent after a special effort, a U.S. official says. Dr. Carolyn M. Clancy, director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Humans Services,...

China's proposal to send eight satellites into space to monitor ocean waters surrounding the country could be more about spying, a British scientist says. With China already having three maritime satellites in orbit, John Walker of the Nottingham Trent University said adding eight more...

A study says following a disastrous 2010 oil rig explosion and spill, bacteria in the Gulf of Mexico consumed at least 200,000 tons of oil and natural gas. Researchers from the University of Rochester and Texas A&M University analyzed an extensive data set to determine not only how much...

Paleontologists say a set of fossil footprints discovered in Canada are the world's smallest known fossil vertebrate footprints. The footprints were found at the Joggins Fossil Cliffs in Nova Scotia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site known for its abundance of fossil specimens, by a local...

Conservation organizations say a free high-tech tool announced at a South Korea conference will allow grassroots rangers to combat the wildlife poaching crisis. Introduced at the World Conservation Congress in Jeju, the open-source, non-proprietary software system is dubbed SMART, for Spatial...

A small wasp ignored by scientists for more than 200 years has been found to be a predator of Australia's most common dangerous spider, researchers say. The wasp, Agenioideus nigricornis, was first described by entomologists in 1775 but has had little scientific attention in the...

Warmer air temperatures may explain increases in zinc and other metal concentrations of ecological concern in a Rocky Mountain watershed, a report says. Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder report temperature increases since the 1980s causing falling water tables, melting...

Infrastructure improvement around the new Atlanta Falcons stadium could add more than $200 million to the cost, Mayor Kasim Reed says. At a news conference Monday, Reed said the actual cost of building the stadium has not increased from $948 million, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported....

Denver Broncos' defensive tackle Ty Warren tore his right triceps muscle Sunday, as he did last season, and is likely through for the year, team officials said. An MRI Monday revealed the extent of the injury, and the team is expected to put Warren, 31, on the injured reserve list,...

John “J-Mac” McCarthy of the Australian Football League's Port Adelaide Power died in a suspected fall from a Las Vegas hotel, a coroner's report said. McCarthy, a five-year veteran of the league, was in Las Vegas with 10 teammates, the Las Vegas Sun reported...

Forward Tyler Seguin, heading into his third NHL season, signed a six-year contract extension, worth nearly $35 million, with the Boston Bruins, the team said. Bruins General Manager Peter Chiarelli announced the deal Tuesday. Seguin, 20, was the second overall pick in the 2010 NHL draft and...

Karin Knapp defeated top-seeded Monica Niculescu in Tuesday”s final first-round match at the WTA”s Tashkent Open in Uzbekistan. Knapp used a late third-set break in claiming a 2-6, 6-3, 7-5 win over Niculescu in a match that took about 2 3/4 hours. Knapp had two breaks in each...

Andy Murray picked up his first Grand Slam title at the U.S. Open and passed Rafael Nadal for No. 3 in the world rankings at the same time. Murray defeated Novak Djokovic 7-6 (12-10), 7-5, 2-6, 3-6, 6-2 in Monday”s U.S. Open championship match. It was Murray”s first win in a...