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Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) unveiled a faster iPad tablet with a sharper display and the ability to connect to the Internet on 4G broadband networks.

The Catalans have a 3-1 lead on Leverkusen.

If Europe is hit by a recession, bond investors might be led to assume that countries on the continent will have a harder time repaying debts, and that assumption could prompt them to sell off European debt, exacerbating the current crisis.

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Juppe’s stand would seem to contradict the more belligerent tone that French President Nicolas Sarkozy has taken with respect to the Iranians.

Israel was guarded in its approach to the resumption of talks with Iran by the world powers on Wednesday. The six world powers including the United States, France, Britain, China, Germany and Russia had expressed their willingness to continue talks with Iran over its nuclear program.Iran had offered to open up a key military base for international inspections, which the world powers suspect would be used for a its secret nuclear program.

German factory orders unexpectedly decline in January, mirroring a sharp drop in orders from outside the euro zone, flashing an early warning sign that Europe's largest economy could be heading back into recession.

Iran, which insists it seeks to develop atomic energy for purely peaceful purposes, has not set a date or locale for such talks.

German sportswear group Adidas stuck to forecasts for a slowdown in sales growth in 2012, disappointing investors who had hoped for more in a banner year for sports events with the Olympics and European soccer championships.

Samsung Electronics Co said on Wednesday it has filed another lawsuit against Apple Inc in South Korea, claiming the iPhone 4S and iPad2 infringed on three of its patents.

U.S. stocks finished Tuesday with the worst one-day decline so far in 2012 as a sell-off spread from Europe driven by fear of a disorderly default in Greece and a slowdown in global economic growth.

You could hardly do better than Chateau du Grand Moueys if you were looking for a metaphor to demonstrate Chinese interests in European wines, luxury goods and travel.

With respect to Hitler and Nazism, the links to India and Hinduism were deeper and more profound.

A German clothing brand popular with neo-Nazis opened a store called Brevik -- which is shockingly close to the name of the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik -- in the city of Chemnitz, sending residents and politicians into a fury.

Despite a slowing growth rate in 2011, Brazil's economy overtook the United Kingdom to become the sixth biggest in the world.

Chipmaker Intel expects its German sales volumes to rise more than 10 percent this year as it launches new energy-saving processors and as Microsoft launches a new version of its Windows computer operating system.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko quipped that it is better to be a dictator than gay – an apparent swipe at Germany’s openly homosexual foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle.

German state prosecutors have charged three employees at Porsche with credit fraud, the latest fallout from a legal dispute alleging the sportscar maker illegally cornered the market in Volkswagen shares in 2008.

The euro area's economy shrank in the fourth quarter, raising fear that the euro bloc may already be sliding back into recession as spending, exports and manufacturing collapsed.

Iran on Tuesday said it will give U.N. weapons inspectors access to a secret military complex where it's believed work on a nuclear weapon may be taking place, as Western countries offered to resume talks with Tehran over its nuclear program.

The matter also has great urgency given Israel’s warnings that it won't tolerate a nuclear Iran and that it may launch a pre-emptive military strike on Iranian atomic facilities.