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China on Thursday issued a second batch of quotas for exports of rare earths this year -- virtually making up for previous cuts -- after its commerce minister met with his EU counterpart to discuss this and other thorny issues between the two trading partners.

China eased export curbs for rare earths on Thursday, restoring it to near-2010 levels in a bid to appease its trading partners, but the European Union said the measure did not go far enough to address concerns of stable supplies.

The much-speculated July 14 launch of Mac OS X Lion turned out to be a non-event.Though Lion didn't roar as of yet, its snoring may not last so long anyway - the next rumors in line suggest Lion's launch as early as tomorrow, or all the way pushed back to July 26th.

Stocks were little changed on Thursday as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke delivered congressional testimony for the second day and worries about hitting the U.S. debt ceiling dogged investors.

A new rumor circulating the web sphere says that Apple will be launching the next generation of iPhone, the iPhone 5, on both T-Mobile and Sprint networks.

According to one report, consumers will have to wait one more day for the Mac OS X Lion

For two years, academic experts from the United States and China have quietly held talks on cyber-security, straining to establish rules of the road in a realm that has proven a persistent irritant between the world's two largest economies.

George Clooney's watchdog group has discovered evidence of ethnic murders in Sudan.

Wall Street stocks rose on Thursday as higher profit from JPMorgan offset concern after Moody's threatened to downgrade the United States' top credit rating if the federal borrowing limit is not raised.

Wall Street was set to rise on Thursday as higher profit from JPMorgan offset concern about closing the U.S. budget deficit after Moody's threatened to downgrade the United States' top credit rating.

Stock index futures rose on Thursday as higher profit from JPMorgan offset concern about the U.S. budget deficit talks and Europe's sovereign debt crisis.

China posted a fiscal surplus of 1.25 trillion yuan ($193.3 billion) in the first half of the year as steady economic growth and rising prices lifted government revenues, the Ministry of Finance said on Thursday.

Salt consumption may put you at high risk for early death, according to a recent study.

I have been a subscriber for years and WILL cancel if rates increase, one customer wrote on Netflix's Facebook page.

When thieves ransacked eight air conditioners in an apartment complex in the city of Mobile, Alabama, the culprits made off with $800 worth of scrap metal and left residents with $38,000 worth of damages.

Wall Street stocks rebounded from a three-day selloff on Wednesday as comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke raised hopes for further stimulus of the U.S. economy if needed.

The horn of an adult triceratops unearthed in Montana belongs to the last survivor of the mass extinction discovered by paleontologists. The find gives weight to the theory that an asteroid caused the catastrophic end of the age of Dinosaurs.

China Telecom Corp Ltd plans to offer its 106 million subscribers the Apple Inc iPhone by the end of 2011, sources said on Wednesday, which would make it the second operator to do so in the world's largest mobile phone market.

Anthony Bolton, one of Britain's best-known fund managers, said policing rogue executives was a far bigger task in China than in the West, as News Corporation's phone-hacking scandal thrusts corporate governance standards back into the spotlight.

For those of us who can't afford the first-class lounge, here's a list of budget airlines that won't break the bank.

Foxconn, Apple's manufacturing partner, is reportedly negotiating with the company to sign a new deal that would make it the sole builder of the new iPad, AppleInsider reported.