With oil prices back near $40 a barrel, OPEC announced plans on Monday to hold an unscheduled meeting next month in Algeria. It's a sign of how much pain oil countries like Saudi Arabia and Venezuela are feeling.
Touted to rival New York's High Line, Seoul's Skygarden will stretch for nearly a kilometer, with performance spaces, cafés, street markets and greenhouses.
Bitcoin customers with Bitfinex accounts will find that their accounts are 36% smaller after hackers targeted the exchange last week. The company said it's still considering how it will make up for those losses.
William Shatner veered into uncharted space at the Star Trek convention in Las Vegas when he told fans the "Star Wars" sci-fi franchise deserves credit for the success of "Star Trek."
The negative publicity leading up to the Rio Olympics fostered a sense of both anticipation and apprehension surrounding the Games. So the organizers and NBC were doubtless relieved to see the opening ceremony mounted without a significant hitch -- that is, other than its ponderous pace and bloated duration.
"Suicide Squad," the last big film of the summer, may be the jolt that Warner Bros. and DC Comics' world of heroes needs at the box office -- at least at first.
