Getty Images A file photo of a deployed airbag is seen in a 2001 Honda Accord at the LKQ Pick Your Part salvage yard on May 22, 2015 in Medley, Florida. Honda has reached a $605 million settlement covering 11.4 million vehicle owners of Takata airbags, according to Reuters citing …

Perched on a stool — unlike most stand-up comedians, he did his entire act sitting down — Mr. Berman focused on the little things. He talked about passionate kisses that miss the mark so that ‘‘you wind up with the tip of her nose in the corner of your mouth.” …

The PowerShares QQQ, which tracks the top 100 stocks in the tech-heavy Nasdaq, was up almost 2 percent in a month that saw a slight drop for the Dow Jones industrial average and the S&P 500, and a bigger, 1.6 percent, decline for the small-stock Russell 2000. Some of the …

Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images A shopper at a Walmart in East Peoria, Illinois. U.S. consumer sentiment climbed in August from July as consumers remained optimistic about their personal financial conditions, although confidence was not quite as strong as economists had estimated, a survey showed Friday. The University …

“The seeds of disunion we experience today, the polarization, the lack of civil discourse all had their seeds in Vietnam,” Mr. Burns said. “I can’t imagine a better way to help pull out some of the fuel rods that create this radioactive atmosphere than to talk about Vietnam in a …

Marcus Yam | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images Residential neighborhoods near the Interstate 10 sit in floodwater in the wake of Hurricane Harvey on August 29, 2017 in Houston, Texas. In Houston, epic flooding caused tremendous water damage to houses, cars and businesses, many of which may not reopen, …

Alkis Konstantinidis | Reuters Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras looks on during a parliamentary session before a budget vote in Athens, Greece, December 10, 2016. Greece wants nothing more than to avoid another bailout — which means it needs debt relief. And so far, that’s the sticking point. “There is …

LONDON (Reuters) – Art is well known for its power to move people, but a new installation in London can move itself – it comprises a series of autonomous floating spheres, that interact with visitors and the space on their own.

Kevin Lee | Bloomberg | Getty Images Yao Gang, former vice-chair of China’s Securities Regulatory Commission, at the Shanghai Corporate Governance Conference in Shanghai, China, on April 16, 2010. A former vice-chairman of China’s securities regulator, Yao Gang, is being investigated for taking bribes, the official China Daily said, citing …

Sanjit Das | Bloomberg | Getty Images Workers gather harvested palm fruit at a palm oil plantation in Bukit Basout Estate, Perak State, Malaysia, on Wednesday, May 10, 2017. The opposition, with stronger support among urban Malaysians angry with a series of corruption scandals, has typically struggled to dislodge the …