Sometimes the work was desk-bound, boring and pointless, but there were years of gruelling manual labour too, weathering an otherwise youthful complexion. What all these jobs had in common was poor ...

Few movie characters carry as much personality in every single word as Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow. Throughout the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, he has given us lines that are just as ...

Jack Ma, a cofounder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, will be a visiting professor at Tokyo College, a research institute run by the prestigious University of Tokyo, the university said ...

Since the early 1990s Chinese equities have returned just 3.3% a year after inflation, far behind US stocks. Nimble traders ...

Jack Nicklaus is always an interesting figure on the golf scene, attracting huge attention from the public and the media.

News, notes and quotes Friday from around the paddock in Detroit, including more on the contact between Kyle Kirkwood (photo) and Will Power.

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The Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio, a key valuation measure, is calculated by dividing the stock's most recent closing price by the sum of the diluted earnings per share from continuing operations ...