IN DANGER:A forestry official said that human encroachment into animal territory is causing the problem. West Bengal accounts for more than a quarter of the deathsEndangered elephants and tigers are killing one person a day in India as hum…

State-owned refiner CPC Corp, Taiwan (CPC, 台灣中油) yesterday announced that it is raising its domestic gasoline and diesel prices by NT$0.2 per liter today.The average cost of its crude oil rose to US$48.85 per barrel this week from NT$4…

SoftBank Vision Fund, the huge tech-investment vehicle helmed by Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son, has led a $200 million investment into indoor farming startup Plenty.Joining Son on his trip out to back the (indoor) farm movement are no…

Once upon a time there lived a poor widow who had one little boy. At first sight you would not have thought that he was different from a thousand other little boys; but then you noticed that by his side hung the scabbard of a sword, and as…

left the palace and told his story to his friends, who were waiting outside the gate, how he had actually held the hen three times in his arms and had lost her.‘I knew that we should not get off so easily,’ said the fox, shaking his head; …

took me to the girl’s house. I saw her sleeping daintily. She was most lovely, and I was so amazed at the perfection of her beauty that I stood with senses lost, and did not know if she were real or a dream. When at last I saw that she was…

will not cost you100 any money. The fact is, I want her to become what Heaven has intended her to be, a thoroughly trained hospital nurse. There is a vacancy now for a probationer at St. Joseph's, and I can get her admitted at once. May sh…

and yet he did not become fixed as before, but found that he could go quite close up to the door. Jorindel was very glad indeed to see this. Then he touched the door with the flower, and it sprang open storage rack; so that he went in thro…

Pyotr Petrovitch deliberately drew out a cambric handkerchief reeking of scent and blew his nose with an air of a benevolent man who felt himself slighted, and was firmly resolved to insist on an explanation . In the passage the idea had o…

Dropbox may be taking another step in its very slow shuffle toward an IPO, and is now working with Goldman Sachs to prepare documents that could be filed as soon as this year, according to a report by Bloomberg . The company is expected to…

Mornings before daylight, or a mushmelon , or a punkin, or some new corn, or things of that kind. pap always said it warn't no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time; but the widow said it warn't anything but a…