NikeTown’s 50,000-square-foot athletic apparel store has been an anchor tenant in San Francisco’s Union Square since 1997. Swoosh! Just like that, NikeTown will soon disappear from San Francisco. The 50,000-square-foot store, an anchor tenant in Union Square for the past 15 years, will be closing within the next 12 months for a complete remodeling, according [...]

Italians voted Sunday in the first elections since Mario Monti was tapped to save Italy from its debt crisis _ balloting seen as a gauge of public anger over parties supporting his austerity measures and disillusionment over Italy’s traditional political blocs. Some 9.5 million Italians were eligible to vote for 942 city councils and mayorships [...]

The controversial plastic-hardening chemical bisphenol A can continue to be used in food and beverage packaging in the U.S., despite studies that raise concerns about the substance, hormone disruption and long-term effects of exposure. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration let current practices stand today, when it rejected a petition from the Natural Resources Defense [...]

The German partnership of RWE and E.on shocked the industry last week when it cancelled plans to build new UK reactors, leading to fears that the whole programme could eventually be shelved. Clean nuclear power has been the key plank in both the coalition’s and the previous government’s plans to tackle carbon emissions and the [...]

FILE – In this Friday, March 16, 2012 file photo, Henry Rice, of Atlanta, pumps gas, at a station in Atlanta. Americans’ rosy outlook about the U.S. economy remains resilient as they focus on the good in the barrage of conflicting economic news. A widely watched barometer of consumer confidence barely budged in March after [...]