Western Union to Pay $586 Million to Resolve Criminal, Civil Charges Money-transfer company Western Union has agreed to pay $586 million to resolve U.S. criminal and civil charges that it failed to effectively police customers who were potentially using its services to engage in fraud.

Morocco wants to rejoin the African Union, despite Western Sahara dispute The North African country left the bloc in 1983 due to a row over Western Sahara.

This library without books might be the library of the future. Library budgets might be shrinking, but digital libraries like this one are on the rise.

Western Union offers new money transfer product for social media and messaging companies The Western Union Company, long the dominant player in the money transfer and remittance market, is taking the fight over its money moving empire to social..

A few important reasons to put this feminist, Western on your must-see movie list The Keeping Room is different. It’s a war movie that focuses not on the soldiers, but on the women left behind. It’s a Civil War story that glorifies no side, and casts two Union soldiers as the bad guys. It’s a Western, a thriller, that is bot Read more ... h nail-bitingly suspenseful and firmly feminist. Written…

A British Owl Got a Library Card Because He's Great at Being an Owl Owls have long been symbols of intelligence, but one British owl is upping the ante after getting his own library card.

One Photographer Is Using Social Media To Celebrate 'Queer Icons' Of Color Jahmal. 2014, From the series Queer Icons, Photogravure w/ Chine-Colle, 11x14, image size 8x10. Gabriel Garcia Roman Icons are an essential part of the visual history of religions, including

Richard Branson, Peter Thiel take aim at Western Union TransferWise, a UK-based startup that opened its first U.S. office earlier this year, uses a clever loophole to make it possible to send money to other countries. Look out, Western Union.

Beinecke Library at Yale Acquires Unmatched Lincoln Photography Collection A Union soldier's family set about collecting every Lincoln photo in existence, and now a Yale library has them, along with a lot of other rare images from the 1860s.

Western Union CEO: It's tough being an immigrant in Europe The boss of Western Union says it's much harder being an immigrant in Europe than in the U.S.