Rebel fighters were battling forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi along the Mediterranean coast west of Tripoli, seeking to fight their way back into the important oil city of Zawiya.
Syrian army troops and tanks entered the mostly deserted town of Jisr al-Shoghour in northwestern Syria Sunday morning amid heavy gunfire.
Israeli central banker Stanley Fischer announced a formal bid to head the International Monetary Fund, positioning himself as a dark horse candidate to replace former IMF head Strauss-Kahn.
The International Monetary Fund is investigating a recent cyber attack that hit its network, the latest in a series of high-profile hacking incidents against major corporations and institutions.
For all the drama of Friday's stock market drop, the extent of the market's recent decline has been relatively mild. But if past investor behavior is a guide, the market could be in for a more severe decline.
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Just days after a fractious OPEC meeting, the first signs emerged that Saudi Arabia was planning to make good on its vow to boost oil output on its own, sending crude futures tumbling.
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High joblessness, already a problem for Obama as he seeks re-election, is shaping up to be a particular burden in key swing states where the unemployment rate is above average.
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Goldman Sachs Group bond trader Fabrice Tourre lost his bid to dismiss a civil securities-fraud lawsuit by the SEC over the marketing and sale of a complex financial instrument tied to subprime mortgages.
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Russian state oil firm Rosneft said Chevron is pulling out of a joint exploration effort in the Black Sea.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the country's economy is likely to grow 3% this year, but the euro-zone debt crisis could endanger the recovery "if we don't act in the right way."
Egypt's Salafi Islamists have begun flexing their muscles in the political arena. Salafi militants also have blocked roads, burned churches and attacked members of the Christian Coptic minority.
The al Qaeda operative behind the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania was killed in a shootout in Somalia. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed was on the FBI's most-wanted terrorist list.
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Hot tech offerings have blown up on investors in the past. Here's how to stack the odds in your favor.
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Pandora Media raised the price range of its IPO by $3 and the number of shares by a million, making the maximum offering size $176.4 million.
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Guy Hands, the man who lost almost $2.9 billion on a single investment, wants to raise up to $4.35 billion for a new private-equity fund next year. That may be a tall order.
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The biting satire of Ray Davies helped make the Kinks one of the most unmistakably English bands of the British Invasion. He talks about life and multiple new projects.
The E. coli outbreak in Northern Germany has been traced to a single bean-sprout farm near Hamburg, the EU official in charge of health and consumer policy confirmed.
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A slump in U.K. industrial production highlighted the economic weakness that is likely to keep the Bank of England from raising its key interest rate any time soon.
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European stocks sank, pressured by worries about the global economic recovery.
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Apple shifted its App Store policies in a move that could have big implications for media as the industry looks to the rise of the iPad and other devices as an opportunity to make money from the Web.
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Ford must pay almost $2 billion in damages to thousands of dealers after a judge upheld a jury verdict against the auto maker earlier this year.
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Rep. Anthony Weiner, facing calls from a chorus of party leaders that he resign, announced he will take a "short leave of absence'' from Congress while he receives treatment in the wake of a "sexting" scandal.
The Paris Opera's first full production of Richard Wagner's four-opera "Ring of the Nibelung" since 1957 comes to an end with a tame "Götterdämmerung," at the Opera Bastille.
The country needs economic reform, not higher subsidies.
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Do robots and Twitter make you nervous? Growing old is what you're really afraid of.
One of the latest kooky Internet fads—planking—is moving into the real world in real-time. The trend involves turning one's body into the shape of a wooden plank, often precariously.
The Capitoline Venus comes to the National Gallery of Art in Washington; Albrecht Dürer's nudes of Adam and Eve are at the Prado in Madrid; Carlos Cruz-Diez gets a retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
The intelligence workout: Jonah Lehrer on how University of Michigan researchers may have discovered a way to improve IQ.
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