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Royal Dutch Shell PLC has announced that it has managed to stop the leak from its faulty pipeline at the Gannet Alpha platform in worst North Sea oil spill in more than a decade.

In a bid to lower the growing budget deficit in United States, Howard Schultz, CEO Starbuck, the largest coffeehouse chain company, appealed to fellow business leaders to abstain from any donation to U.S. political parties, according to reports.

An editorial published recently in a prestigious medical journal advocates that surgeons should let their patients undergoing elective surgery know if they are feeling tired or overworked and proceed with the operation only if the patients give their written consent.

A Virginia grandmother has been arrested and charged with the murder of her two-and-half-year-old granddaughter after she threw her off a six stories walkway at a shopping mall on a family outing, according to several tabloids reported, citing police officials as saying on Tuesday.

Weight training along with aerobics is the most effective way of lowering blood sugar in people suffering from diabetes, according to a recent study by Timothy S. Church, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., of Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Los Angeles.

 I finally decided to hold my nose and take the plunge -- bye-bye cable TV and landline phone, hello modern communications. And I picked a heck of an interesting time to do it.

 
Although business headlines still tout earnings numbers, many investors have moved past net earnings as a measure of a company's economic output. That's because earnings are very often less trustworthy than cash flow, since earnings are more open to manipulation based on dubious judgment calls.

Based on the aggregated intelligence of 170,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, Indian online travel site MakeMyTrip (Nasdaq:MMYT) has received the dreaded one-star ranking.