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Global shares edged up to their highest in nearly two weeks on Tuesday, but the rally looked to be running out of steam on the back of concerns over Europe's debt troubles and U.S. growth.

The United States was a net exporter of solar energy products last year, thanks to strong demand from China, Germany and Japan for U.S.-made polysilicon and capital equipment used to make solar panels.

The Gunners make high profile additions.

The Gunners are on the verge of making major additions.

Chinese photovoltaic equipment maker Beijing Jingyuntong Technology has set an initial public offering price at 50 times its historic earnings, boosted by demand from the country's push for solar energy.

LDK Solar Co Ltd suffered a quarterly loss as a sharp drop in solar wafer prices forced it to write down millions of dollars in inventories, but forecast revenue for the current quarter above estimates on stabilizing prices.

Lawmakers from Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition will make a proposal this week to persuade rebel colleagues to back measures to bolster the powers of the euro zone bailout fund, a senior conservative lawmaker said on Monday.

The International Monetary Fund has slashed its growth forecasts for the United States and says the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank must be ready to ease policy, Italian news agency ANSA reported on Monday.

Europe gave a cool reception to a demand from the International Monetary Fund's new head Christine Lagarde to force its banks to bulk up their capital, saying the continent had done enough already.

Homosexual professional footballers should not come out because the repercussions could be too devastating, according to Germany captain Philipp Lahm.

In what can be called a gem of a discovery, astronomers have found a rare planet made of diamonds, which would likely have oxygen apart from carbon. The carbon-based planet lies 4,000 light years away in the constellation of Serpens in our Milky Way galaxy.

A U.S. and European push to impose U.N. Security Council sanctions on Syria for its bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators is meeting fierce resistance from Russia and China, U.N. diplomats said.

Samsung Electronics Co said on Monday it would delay the launch of its latest Galaxy tablet computer in Australia until after a court ruling in late September on its ongoing global patent dispute with Apple.

Astronomers have discovered the densest extrasolar planet made up of diamonds, lying 4000 light years away from Earth in the constellation of Serpens (the Snake).

Europe has seen a wave of royal weddings since Britian's Prince William and Kate Middleton tied the knot in April. Here are a few pictures from the latest one, in Germany.

Samsung has announced that its anticipated Galaxy S2 smartphone will get the 4G treatment, offering data speeds up to four times faster than what is expected in Apple's forthcoming iPhone 5.

In a discovery bound to make many women happy, astronomers have found the single largest discovery of diamonds on a planet 4,000 light-years away, as part of the Milky Way's plane of stars.

U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed the eurozone crisis and financial-market turbulence on Saturday and vowed action to bolster the global economy, the White House said in a statement.

The Swiss government may be paving the way for a large-scale transfer of Credit Suisse client data to the United States in order to save the bank serious legal troubles that might endanger its future, a Swiss newspaper reported.

France wants concrete results for a controversial international tax on financial transactions at November's G20 summit of leading economies, Finance Minister Francois Baroin said in remarks published on Sunday.

Astronomers at the University of Manchester have found an exotic planet made completely of diamond, which orbits a pulsar about 4,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Serpens.