The best ways to boost your team's productivity? Define expectations, be flexible about how workers achieve them, and build momentum through short-term wins. So says leadership trainer Warren Blank, author of "The 108 Skills of Natural Born Leaders." Blank and other experts offer these tips:...

Level 3 Communications Inc. finance chief Sunit Patel announced plans to resign as soon as a replacement is found, the communications network operator announced Monday.Level 3's stock plummeted more than 11 percent on the news.Patel, 45, has been seen as one of the key executives...

Sea levels off Shanghai and other Chinese coastal cities are rising at an alarming rate, leading to contamination of drinking water supplies and other threats, China's State Oceanic Administration reported Thursday.Waters off the industrial port city of Tianjin, 60 miles southeast of Beijing, rose by...

Morocco raised its terror alert to its highest level and ordered stepped up security nationwide Friday, citing a "serious threat of a terrorist act."The country's top police, intelligence and security officials met Friday to discuss terror threats and decided to raise the level to maximum,...

Talks about the English Levellers in a very deep detail. The Levellers were an active group of people in England in the 17th century striving for democracy. They emerged during the English Revolution, which was a series of major conflicts between the Parliament of the country and the King.