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Japan Airlines has announced it's ordering 31 wide-body jets from Europe's major airplane manufacturer. It's a deal worth $9.5 billion. It's a huge sale for Airbus and a big blow for America's Boeing, which for decades has dominated sales to Japanese airlines.

A new typeface is the most noticeable change.

Our panelists predict what'll be the best gift given at the Congress Christmas party this year.

There will no longer be free unlimited access to the Charlotte Observer's online edition starting later this year. In a call with analysts, the company…

There will no longer be free unlimited access to the Charlotte Observer's online edition starting later this year. In a call with analysts, the company…

Readers say it's better for NASA technology to flop on earth than in the sky.

http://66.225.205.104/CT20120613.mp3 Part One: Baseball Uptown This week, the City Council voted 7-4 to help fund an Uptown stadium for the Charlotte…

http://66.225.205.104/CT20100204.mp3Part One: Spring Awakening We'll talk about one of the biggest Tony Award winning Broadway shows in years, now in…

http://66.225.205.104/20120822DNC.mp3 Reporters got a preview Wednesday of the arena as workers prepare for the DNC. Photo: Greg Collard Construction…

There will no longer be free unlimited access to the Charlotte Observer's online edition starting later this year. In a call with analysts, the company…

The French plane maker is opening a $600 million plant in Mobile today, in a bold bid for market share in Boeing territory.

"In Da Getto" is relentless and bound to keep energy up through a long night on the dance floor.

Wales, the rural coastal country just west of England, isn't where you'd expect to find one of the year's better bangers, but Juice Menace is here to blow up your Welsh stereotypes.

On Sunday, the Lundberg Survey reported gasoline prices fell more than 5.5 cents a gallon. That may not sound like a whole lot, but it's the first price drop all year.

According to one estimate, only 25 percent of those in one of these businesses turn a profit.

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner talks about his musical Caroline or Change. A revival is playing to glowing notices, packed audiences and standing ovations.

The Librarian of Congres named Donald Hall the nation's new poet laureate on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the small town of Three Oaks, Mich., has already found one of its own. Not everyone there thinks a poet laureate is necessary for a small town, but others welcome the idea.

Shakespeare in Love director John Madden discusses his latest movie, Proof, an adaptation of the stage play by David Auburn. The film stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins and Hope Davis.

Andrew Bird's music has been defying description for years. "I sort of play with words and ideas, and they eventually kind of find their way into the nooks and crannies of the melodies," Bird says.

On Death Cab for Cutie's sixth album, Narrow Stairs, the band opted for a live sound in the studio. In an interview with host David Dye, guitarist and producer Chris Walla describes the disc as "louder and more dissonant."