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Mohammed Bah Abba made a really cool invention, which won a Rolex Award of $100,000 –a refrigerator than runs without electricity. Here’s how it works.

Photo: Reuters Saturday’s scheduled lift-off was expected to be delayed by more than 24 hours after the major electrical storm that struck near the Kennedy

By Franklin Sanders The fact is, gold bugs (with their blind, monomaniacal devotion to gold) miss the point. They are so ideologically wedded to the

Homeless In Tent City, USA It’s a sweltering summer afternoon, and the children are hot and miserable in the tent that’s been their home since

By: Jennifer Barry China now has the fifth largest official gold reserve, 1,054 metric tons, surpassing Switzerland. While this was a 76% jump in gold

By Terrence Keeley The lessons of the past year for central bank reserve managers – overseers of $7,000bn in foreign exchange assets, four times the

By Mike “Mish” Shedlock Look at the average age of baggers in grocery stores or greeters at Walmart. These people are not working because they

By Brian Parkin and Dune Lawrence Leaders of the world’s biggest developed and emerging nations avoided a debate over the dollar’s role in the global

By Maggie Fox The U.S. government will pay for any vaccination program against the H1N1 swine flu, and may encourage schools to help vaccinate children,

US Secretary of the Treasury Geithner & Goldman Sachs Max Keiser: “Does the US Secretary of the Treasury work for the people or does he