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Borders Group is beginning liquidation sales at all of its 399 stores A liquidation company that is part of the process said late Thursday that the sales will be held starting Friday...

Israeli forces are on alert as Palestinians mark the anniversary of the Arab defeat in the 1967 Mideast war.

Hundreds of Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip arrived here by the busload on Saturday to pass through the reopened border into Egypt, taking a tangible step out of a four-year Israeli blockade.

Israeli troops shot at Palestinian protesters on its frontiers with Syria, Lebanon and Gaza on Sunday, killing nine who were marking what they term "the catastrophe" of Israel's founding in 1948.

Publishers turned aggressive about selling to Kitson, Mr. Ross said, as traditional bookstores switched focus or closed. That "has been good for us," he said. "If there's a good book, we'll go deep into it." And publishers, he said, "realize what a specialty store can do for their business, with the window and the table."

There is an investor lesson in Borders downfall. Pay attention to insider trades.

Bookseller Borders, which helped pioneer superstores that put countless mom-and-pop bookshops out of business, filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday, sunk by crushing debt and...

Borders Group launched an e-bookstore powered by Kobo Inc., the Canadian e-book retailer in which Borders owns an investment stake.

Borders just announced that they're selling the Kobo eReader, an $149 ebook touted, by Wired, no less, as a Kindle killer. This device isn't formally Border's only ebook reader. Instead, they will sell multiple readers online and in stores and the real news is that they're creating an ebook store that will act as their default spot on the interwebs for ebooks and content.

North Korea says it has decided to free a detained American missionary who crossed its border to raise human rights issues.