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Germany completed a perfect record in the Euro 2012 Qualifiers with 10 wins from as many games after defeating Belgium in Dusseldorf on Tuesday.

When Samsung and Google last week decided to delay the unveiling of the Galaxy Nexus Prime smartphone and the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, reports surfaced that it was out for Apple's dead CEO Steve Jobs.

The United States stormed to gold in the women's team event at the world gymnastics championships on Tuesday to emphatically put down a marker for next year's London Olympics.

Slovakia's parliament on Tuesday brought down the government by rejecting a plan to expand the euro zone's EFSF rescue fund, crucial to containing a spreading debt crisis.

Slovakian lawmakers late Tuesday rejected their governing coalition's bid to expand the Eurozone's bailout fund, toppling the government but heightening prospects a new coalition can push the measure through this week.

Two groups acting on behalf of a single nation state were behind a March attack on RSA, the maker of SecurID keys used by tens of millions of employees worldwide to access their corporate computer networks, Chief Executive Art Coviello said on Tuesday.

Europe's banks will have to achieve a significantly stronger capital position under a quick-fire regulatory health check and may need to raise some 100 billion euros ($137 billion), banking and regulatory sources said on Tuesday.

Europe's banks will have to achieve a significantly stronger capital position under a quick-fire regulatory health check and may need to raise some 100 billion euros ($137 billion), banking and regulatory sources said on Tuesday.

Samsung and Google delayed the release of their new products following the death of Steve Jobs out of respect for the legendary man that changed the landscape of the technology world forever.

U.S. stock futures are slightly down as investors await the results of a key Eurozone vote and Alcoa’s (NYSE:AA) earnings report.

Slovak Prime Minister Iveta Radicova put her government on the line on Tuesday by saying that a ballot on expanding the euro zone rescue mechanism that one of her junior ruling partners opposes would also be a vote of confidence in her cabinet.

Gold eased 1 percent early Tuesday, giving up some of the previous day's gains, as stocks and the euro were pressured by waning optimism over a new plan to tackle euro zone debt, and ahead of a vote in Slovakia to ratify changes to the bloc's rescue fund.

The euro zone sovereign debt crisis has become systemic and risks to the economy are increasing rapidly with Europe's banks in the danger zone, European Systemic Risk Board Chairman Jean-Claude Trichet said on Tuesday.

The euro zone sovereign debt crisis has become systemic and risks to the economy are increasing rapidly with Europe's banks in the danger zone, European Systemic Risk Board Chairman Jean-Claude Trichet said on Tuesday.

Apple. Inc launched its new world phone on Oct. 4 and has received more than a million pre-orders for the iPhone 4S.

Apple has received more than a million preorders for the iPhone 4S in a single day, toppling the previous record of 600,000 set by the iPhone 4 last year, the company says.

Slovak Prime Minister Iveta Radicova will put the future of her government on the line on Tuesday before lawmakers cast ballots on a euro zone rescue mechanism that one of her junior ruling parties looks set to shoot down.

The day after he tied the knot with American heiress Nancy Shevell, ex-Beatle Paul McCartney announced 11 extra dates for his On the Run tour ending in his native town of Liverpool, England, on December 20.

People who want the new $200 Apple iPhone 4S may have to get in line on Friday because U.S. wireless phone carriers appear to have sold out.

U.S. stocks and other global risk assets surged on Monday on promise from France and Germany to soon come up with a bailout plan for the Eurozone.

Stocks prices went up Monday after German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy agreed to craft a bailout plan for the Eurozone.