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Two NATO soldiers were shot dead on Thursday by two Afghans, including a man believed to be a soldier, NATO said, an attack that is likely to raise further questions about the future of the country's security forces.

Arsene Wenger has big names involved in transfer discussion.

The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a criminal probe into whether the world's biggest banks manipulated a global benchmark rate that is at the heart of a wide range of loans and derivatives, from trillions of dollars of mortgages and bonds to interest rate swaps, a person familiar with the matter said.

Saturday, March 4 marks the start of the Iditarod 2012 when mushers from around the world will embark on a 1,150-mile trail of some of the roughest, most beautiful terrain Mother Nature has to offer.

International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) has fired more than 1,000 workers in North America this week, according to an advocacy group for the company’s employees.

The Justice Department is conducting a criminal probe into whether the world's biggest banks manipulated a global benchmark rate, according to a person familiar with the situation.

It was celebrity attorney Gloria Allred's intention to notify the press about attending an Oscar party at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunday with Ginger White, the woman who alleges she had a 13-year affair with Herman Cain. However, she accidentally copied her 380-people press list instead of blind copying them, making each recipient visible to all others. See the lengthy press list here.

In an amusing development, the Iranian government has hailed the country's first win at the Oscars, beating four contenders including one from Israel, as a victory over its rival Jewish state.

A Canadian company's decision Monday to proceed with part of a U.S. pipeline might end up muffling one of the Republicans' loudest arguments in this election year: that President Barack Obama has pursued failed energy policies.

White House officials Monday welcomed TransCanada's plans to reapply for the Keystone XL pipeline and showed their support for the company's aims to build the southern portion of the controversial pipeline as a standalone project.

VIA Rail has responded to the Ontario train crash that killed three crew members on Sunday, saying on Monday that we will find out what went wrong.

The Lightning and Maple Leafs traded two promising prospects in hopes of bringing more balance to their rosters.

TransCanada officials announced Monday they have sent the U.S. Department of State a letter announcing they will soon reapply for a permit allowing the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.

TransCanada Corp said on Monday it aims to build the southern leg of its $7 billion Keystone XL oil pipeline first, skirting a full-blown federal review and heightening competition to move crude out of the glutted Cushing, Oklahoma, storage hub.

The annual military exercise, known as Key Resolve, will involve around 200,000 South Korean and 2,100 U.S. troops in what officials from both countries have stressed is a routine training exercise.

Nokia has escalated the camera phone competition standard -- two levels above the next level - and has fired up the second day of MWC 2012 with the release of Nokia 808 PureView.

A Separation by Asghar Farhadi became the first Iranian film to win the Academy Award for the best foreign language film. Israeli media didn't digest the news well with many of them publishing articles about Iran's Oscar moment with sarcastic and bitter undertones.

Israeli and Iranian filmmakers whose movies were competing in the foreign language film category shared certain moments of awkwardness during a pre-Oscars symposium, in the wake of Tehran's directive to its citizens to avoid contact with Israelis.

The U.S. government is eyeing Israel, Canada and the United Arab Emirates as possible initial foreign buyers of the V-22 Osprey, a tilt-rotor aircraft built by Boeing Co and Bell Helicopter, a top U.S. Marine Corps official told Reuters.

The countdown for the much-awaited Oscar/ 84th annual Academy Awards has begun. It will be aired from Kodak Theatre, Calif., Feb. 26.

Germany is easing its opposition to a bigger European bailout fund, officials said, smoothing the way for the world's leading economies to secure nearly $2 trillion in firepower to prevent more fallout from the euro-zone's sovereign-debt crisis.