TORONTO—Canada's banks drew on the country's strong economic performance to post another quarter of good results. They also said they had minimal exposure to European nations and financial institutions.
Royal Bank of Canada, the country's largest bank by assets, and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the fifth...
The speed sets the stage for other hypersonic applications, including commercial transportation and access to space.
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A scramjet engine accelerated a B-52 to six times the speed of sound.
Officials equate the leap in engine technology to that of propeller-driven aircraft to jet engines.
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NEW YORK – The scenario was unique, as far as doctors could tell: A man had gotten a transplanted kidney from a woman who had uterine cancer and didn't know it.
Vincent Liew decided to keep the kidney after his transplant surgeon concluded there...
Having read Jonah Goldberg's turgid tome on the fascist danger spawned by American Progressives and Obamaites, and having listened to his rants against "big government" on Glenn Beck's therapy hour, it seems to me that his column today, against Rand Paul as an enemy of property rights, raises doubts about Jonah's "antifascist" persona. As everyone...
Mina Salman Port, Bahrain - Construction began Wednesday on doubling the sized of the US Navy base in Bahrain, with digging beginning on a 70-acre site leased from the Bahraini government.
The four-phase, 580 million dollar project will massively increase the military capabilities of the US 5th Fleet based there, according to US officials....
