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A pilot quota system that allows companies operating in China to freely transfer some of their yuan profits offshore has gathered some traction in recent months and bankers expect more firms to seek approvals to participate.

Public backlash against deadly overseas drone strikes may undermine promising uses of such technology for anything from disaster response to mail delivery, a top U.S. industry group said as it launched a lobbying effort to "demystify" unmanned planes.

The US Navy's MQ-4C Triton aircraft, powered by a Rolls-Royce AE 3007 engine, successfully completed its first flight on May 22, 2013.

Dr Napthine met with Ford representatives yesterday and was told there was nothing either the Victorian or federal governments could do to change their decision, he said.

A group of investment firms including Citadel Securities LLC sued the Chicago Board Options Exchange Inc and four other exchanges on Wednesday for improper charges on millions of options trades over a seven-year period.

An unmanned jet built for the U.S. Navy's high-altitude maritime surveillance missions made its first flight on Wednesday, officials said.

UPDATE: Virginia Church of God released a statement Wednesday afternoon regarding the fatal shooting in Crozet Tuesday.

Pesticide makers have taken to framing themselves as stewards of the bees as backlash over their products' links to mass bee deaths grows.

My first motorcycle was a Honda 305 Scrambler off-road dirt bike. Now I have a Harley Dyna Glide custom.

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It was surely one of those moments where NASA could hardly wait to tear off the shrink wrap.

The Health and Safety Executive said the death of experienced maintenance engineer Gary Whiting, 51, was an ''entirely preventable tragedy''. BAE Systems Ltd of Farnborough Aerospace Centre, Farnborough, was fined A 250,000 and ordered to pay A 97,153 costs after pleading guilty to a breach of Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, at ... (more)

Covidien plc announced Tuesday that its bronchoscopy system, used to detect lung cancer, has been included in the new American College of Chest Physicians guidelines.

According to weekend newspaper reports, Sir Roger Carr -- currently chairman of Centrica -- is being lined up as the next chairman of BAE Systems plc .

Gentex Corp. announced today that Steve Dykman, its longtime chief financial officer and vice president of finance, left the company as of Friday, May 17.

The republican nominees for statewide office are making their way around the commonwealth this week.

CEO Louis Chenevert told analysts Tuesday that airline profitability looks better for 2013 than in recent years.

Burberry, Tesco, Vodafone and BAE Systems join CBI chief in lobbying PM to stop moralising on tax ahead of G8 talks Sir Roger Carr, CBI chairman, said at an earlier meeting that tax avoidance "cannot be about morality - there are no absolutes". Photograph: Will Oliver/AFP/Getty Images The bosses of some of Britain's largest multinational ... (more)

Rejecting calls for the GOP to be more "moderate" after the party's poor showing in the 2012 presidential election, Virginia Republicans nominated on Saturday in Richmond a trio of very conservative candidates.

Chesapeake minister and attorney E.W. Jackson won the GOP nomination for lieutenant governor late in the night Saturday after a long afternoon of voting to narrow the field from seven candidates.