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A handful of payments companies including Square and PayPal are moving beyond their core market in payments to take advantage of an opportunity to help small businesses grow.

Gluten-free diets are all the rage.

But is eating gluten, the protein found in wheat that gives our bread dough that stretchy feeling, really making us any less healthy?

For a little less than the 1% of the population who have celiac disease, an underdiagnosed autoimmune disorder where eating gluten damages the small intestine, ditching gluten is necessary.

Another 0.63% to 6% of people may be sensitive to gluten without having celiac, meaning that when they eat gluten, they... Читать дальше...

Fox has canceled Ryan Seacrest's new show, "Knock Knock Live," after airing just two episodes, an individual with knowledge of the decision told Business Insider.

Business Insider put together a list of basic etiquette rules to follow on your next flight. Keep them in mind to keep traveling a pleasant experience for everyone involved. 

A small plane has crashed in London.

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Most of the world's gold is out and has been turned into jewelry. 

A chart from Macquarie shows we've mined about three-quarters of the Earth's gold (that we know about), with only about 55,000 tonnes left to dig out.

It will be all gone in 22 years if we keep up a nearly 2,500 tonne-a-year extraction rate and don't find any more.

Of course, it's very unlikely the planet has no gold left to give. And what is there will probably be worth a bit more next year, say the Macquarie analysts. Читать дальше...

While most celebrities tend to turn a blind eye toward the hateful tweets they recieve, actor James Woods has decided to make a multi-million dollar response to one of his Twitter bashers. 

In an ideal world, your email recipients would be moved more by the substance of your message than its aesthetic value.

Puerto Rico could go into default on a chunk of its $72 billion debt on Saturday, August 1st.

Washington (AFP) - The United States on Friday condemned what it said was a "vicious terrorist attack" after suspected Jewish settlers burned Palestinian homes and killed an 18-month-old baby.

New York Jets star defensive end Sheldon Richardson was charged with resisting arrest near St. Louis, Missouri, Thursday night.

FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors. 

We all have to start at square one — but taking that first step toward a career is harder for some than others.

London (AFP) - Britain's interior minister ordered officials Friday to grant Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei a six-month visa, reversing a decision to restrict him to a short trip that had prompted condemnation from rights groups.

The American southwest is in the midst a catastrophic drought.

It’s so bad, in fact, that it’s caused Lake Mead—a massive oasis in the middle of Majove Desert, formed by the Hoover Dam — to recede to the lowest levels ever seen. As of June, water levels were 154-feet below normal.

For the adventurous few, the lower water level is a chance to get closer to history than ever before — up close and personal with a B-29 bomber that has sat on the lake bed for over 70 years.

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Peter Adeney, better known as "Mr. Money Mustache" turned quite a few heads when he announced his retirement at age 30 back in 2005.

Following reports that Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay — the venue for sailing and windsurfing events at the upcoming 2016 Summer Olympics — is teeming with sewage and viruses, the US Sailing Association said that it won't push the IOC to move sailing events to a different location.

When most people think about Tokyo, they probably imagine glitzy neon lights and zero personal space. What they shouldn't imagine, however, are traffic fatalities. Tokyo has practically none of them.

It may seem strange that a meat packing plant received recognition as a UNESCO cultural site of significance, but the Anglo meat packing plant in Uruguay has played a fascinating and vital role in history for years. 

There's a lot of rumors circulating around the release of the next iPhone.  Here are some likely guesses about its new features.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A hunting club that suspended a Minnesota dentist who killed Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe has given money to the campaigns of numerous U.S. politicians, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner, a watchdog group's records show.

Washington (AFP) - The European Space Agency's probe Philae may be struggling to stay in touch, but its first finds on its new home are pretty special.

Sydney (AFP) - Australian search authorities Friday said they were "increasingly confident" plane debris that washed up on a tiny Indian Ocean island is from missing flight MH370, with formal identification possible within 24 hours.

Kabul (AFP) - The Taliban appointed Mullah Akhtar Mansour as the new leader of the militant movement, a statement said Friday, a day after the insurgents confirmed the death of Mullah Omar.

On a recent 14.5-hour flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, I had time to read the columnist Charles Krauthammer’s collection of essays, Things that Matter. It made for a disturbing flight.