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Asian stock markets advanced Tuesday, recovering from their biggest fall in six months in the previous session on concerns over election results in France and Greek.

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp has lowered its full-year forecast due to a slowdown in demand for IT outsourcing.

Google Inc infringed some of Oracle Corp's copyrights on the Java programming language, a U.S. jury found on Monday after days of deliberation.

Toyota Motor Corporation (NYSE: TM) debuted the new 2012 RAV4 EV on Monday in Los Angeles at the 26th annual Electric Vehicle Symposium. The new electric RAV4 will have a range of approximately 100 miles with a charging time of roughly 6 hours, but the high price of $49,800 MSRP could leave some would-by buyers shocked.

After the arraignment of the five accused 9/11 planners, their civilian counsel criticized the military commission handling the case.

South Korean customs officials are cracking down on capsules reportedly filled with powdered human flesh from dead infants, aborted fetuses and placental remains that are being smuggled in from China.

Rovio, the Finnish developer of ?Angry Birds,? may be ready for an initial public offering next year, CEO Mikael Hed said.

China is set to move ahead with deepwater drilling in the South China Sea -- a controversial method of resource extraction in a controversial area of the world.

According to Fox News, the percent of married households in the United States fell to 48.4 percent in 2010, down from 55.2 percent in 1990 and 78 percent in 1960. This is the lowest in recorded history for our country.

Western markets rallied Monday to make up for jitters about French and Greek election results that sent them down earlier. The rebound was possibly due to investors looking for bargains after stocks were dumped Friday after the disappointing U.S. nonfarm payrolls report.

Ally Financial Inc., the auto lender majority-owned by U.S. taxpayers, has received conditional approval from the U.S. Treasury Department on plans to put its struggling mortgage servicing and lending unit into bankruptcy, Bloomberg reported, citing an anonymous Obama administration official.

U.S. consumer credit expanded in March at the fastest pace since late 2001, boosted by a rebound in credit-card use, and higher student and car loans, data from the Federal Reserve showed Monday.

Google has invested in Machinima according to a new AllThingsD report. The announcement was made in the wake of the company's $200 million commitment to promoting YouTube across the Google content network.

Shares of Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO), the No. 3 search engine rose slightly after dissident investor Third Point Capital demanded access to confidential data.

Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng said Monday from his hospital bed in Beijing that he is confident he will be allowed to travel to the U.S. with his family, despite being denied visits from American officials for several days.

Samaras? party ?won? Sunday?s election, but with only about 18.9 percent of the total electorate, meaning he had to form an alliance with one or two other parties to create a viable new government.

While Nicolas Sarkozy has finally met his Waterloo -- and not before time according to a testy French electorate -- analysts are unconvinced Hollande can persuade the rest of Europe, let alone a resolute Germany, to abandon the austerity juggernaut.

For its sixth-generation iPhone, presumably called iPhone 5, Apple is reportedly building a device with a thinner and lighter frame, but a bigger 4-inch screen. Yet with a slew of rumored features, a recently-released patent for an incredibly intelligent multi-tiered haptics system could be the one feature to rule them all.

The corporate members of ALEC task forces was revealed by the watchdog group Common Cause.

The sudden devaluation has led to some panic-buying by consumers in Malawi, seeking to purchase basic goods.

Elena Gilbert's Vampire Diaries home is for sale, but buyers need not fear a vampire or supernatural invasion.

The Semiconductor Industry Association, which represents the top U.S. chipmakers, lauded bipartisan approval in the U.S. Congress to boost funding for both the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Chrysler Group LLC is recalling 119,072 2011 and 2012 model year Dodge Charger and Chrysler 300 cars because of potential antilock braking system failure caused by an overheated power distribution center.

Starting May 20, customers can officially purchase the Samsung Focus 2. The Focus 2 is Samsung's first 4G LTE Windows phone

The debate over austerity versus growth is a false choice for policymakers, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said on Monday.

Vladimir Putin ordered Russia's government to boost investment and shake up state-run industries in a flurry of decrees issued after he returned to the presidency on Monday with a call for a new economy.

About 150 people were injured when gas-filled balloons exploded during a rally for the Republican Party in the capital city of Yerevan

3i Group plc (London: III) the largest listed UK private equity company, is in talks with Spain's Ferrovial to sell its Enterprise maintenance and cleaning company, the Financial Times reported.

Medical device and drugmaker Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) said it will pay $1.6 billion to settle federal and state claims regarding illegal off-label sales and marketing of its neurologic medication Depakote.