Gap Inc. is issuing a voluntary recall for some babyGap coats due to a choking hazard.

Gap Inc. says that its chairman and CEO Glenn Murphy has volunteered to cut his annual salary by 15 percent this year. The clothing chain is also eliminating merit-based salary increases for most employees at its headquarters in San Francisco.

If the global economy were a 100-yard dash, the U.S. would start 23 yards behind its closest competitors because of health care that costs too much and delivers too little, a business group says in a report to be released Thursday.

A judge on Friday accused Michigan’s attorney general of being more interested in publicity than the “requirements of justice” in the death of a woman in a nursing home.

Clothing retailer Gap Inc. says its fourth-quarter profit dropped 8.3 percent. The results beat Wall Street forecasts, though, because of measures to control expenses, including inventory.

The politically divisive income gap between China’s affluent citydwellers and its huge farm population expanded to its widest level ever last year as the economy slowed, putting millions of rural migrants out of work.

The politically divisive income gap between China’s affluent citydwellers and its huge farm population expanded to its widest level ever last year as the economy slowed, putting millions of rural migrants out of work.

The racial gap in colon cancer death rates is widening, a new report says, and experts partly blame blacks’ lower screening rates and poor access to quality care.

Gap Inc. reported Thursday that its third-quarter profit rose 3.4 percent as cost-cutting efforts offset a sales slump. The apparel chain also affirmed its profit guidance for the full year but said the tough times will last at least another six months.

Apparel chain Gap Inc. says its third-quarter profit rose 3.4 percent as cost-cutting efforts like inventory control offset a sales slump.