Motorola considers breakup
Motorola Inc., which created and dominated the worldwide cell phone market, on Thursday announced it may shed that iconic business amid a breathtaking decline in sales and mounting losses in...
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Behind Boeing’s 787 delays
When Boeing Co. announced a costly, six-month delay in the first delivery of the world's fastest-selling airplane, the 787 Dreamliner, it singled out a shortage of bolts and screws as...
A rumble over valuable jungle
Fifth in a series The rain forest here is so dense and this village so isolated that when Russell Mittermeier arrived by bush plane, it seemed for a moment like...
Emissions fix may lie beneath us
Beneath the rolling green hills of Australia's Latrobe Valley lies a deposit of brown coal so enormous it seems almost endless. After nearly a century of mining, more than 95...
China takes aim at smoggy skies
First in an occasional series GUANGZHOU, China—The Pearl River Delta was the incubator of China's economic transformation, where special economic zones gave free markets a fighting chance against central government...
Dark day for Lord Black
Unmoved by testimony about a jet-setting lifestyle at company expense but certain that Hollinger International Inc. had been pilfered, a federal jury on Friday found press baron Conrad Black guilty...
Reporter briefed police on Stebic
WMAQ-Ch. 5 reporter Amy Jacobson was briefing police on her interaction with Craig Stebic without telling her bosses, which played a role in her ouster from the station, sources say....
Safety focus tightens after refinery blast
Outside Gate 1 of the second-largest oil refinery in the U.S., a block-lettered sign carries a seemingly simple message: "What You Say Leads to Action." Sloganeering signs do not a...
Troubles run deep on Gulf oil platform
The day after massive Hurricane Dennis churned through the Gulf of Mexico in July 2005, a commercial vessel traveling past BP PLC's hulking Thunder Horse oil platform radioed the bad...
Risky business: Big Oil’s billion-dollar juggling act
Painful reminders of the fallout from the cheap-oil era of a decade ago are never far from Robert Malone, the top North American executive of oil giant BP. In March,...