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British Airways PLC and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines NV, rivals who have been rumored as possible merger partners, plan to sell seats on one another's flights to the Middle East.

Airline executives plan to meet today with government and airport officials to discuss ways to prevent future snow-related backups that kept some passengers waiting inside planes for up to ten hours.

Bridgestone Corp. of Japan has reached an agreement in principle with Ford Motor Co. to settle disputes over tires and normalize business ties, a newspaper said Sunday.

Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Monday will start selling the fastest models yet of their flagship processors, the electronic brains of personal computers.

Yves Saint Laurent, the fashion designer who popularized pantsuits for women and introduced the daring see-through blouse, on Monday announced his retirement from the world of haute couture.

States strapped by a slowing economy are turning to delinquent taxpayers to help balance tight budgets.

A new study on the skyrocketing cost of higher education says there are only five states where all the four-year public colleges are affordable for low-income students, and in many of those, the students still need to borrow money to get by.

Scientists in Georgia and Israel have identified genes in cotton plants that could pave the way for drought-tolerant varieties.

Is it a sport utility vehicle, or a sport activity vehicle, an all activity vehicle or simply a crossover?

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a California company have filed a lawsuit in Texas, claiming that 94 companies - including Microsoft Corp. - illegally used their patented image editing software.