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Shares of Apple's suppliers declined on Wednesday, after the company failed to wow fans and investors with its newest iPhone, while rivals HTC and Samsung Electronics rose on expectations they would be better placed to grab market share.

Apple unveiled on the event on Tuesday the iPhone 4S, a major upgrade over its previous iPhone 4 model having iOS 5, iCloud and Siri.

Asian stocks rebounded from steep losses over the past several sessions on Wednesday, after tentative signs that European leaders are stepping up their efforts to stop the region's sovereign debt woes from sparking a full-blown banking crisis.

Asian stocks trimmed earlier gains Wednesday as investors remained skeptical about whether European leaders are going far enough their efforts to stop the region's sovereign debt woes from sparking a full-blown banking crisis.

The iPhone 5 mystery remained a mystery after all. The tech world was utterly disappointed as Apple announced iPhone 4S, not iPhone 5, at its Let's talk iPhone event on Tuesday.

World number two Rafael Nadal secured an easy victory against Go Soeda to progress into the second round of the Japan Open on Tuesday.

A large ozone hole over the Arctic may have likely exposed people living in Russia, parts of Greenland and Norway to high ultraviolet (UV) radiation.

Canadian auto sales fell in September, extending a volatile year with Chrysler's strong performance the lone bright spot among the top manufacturers.

After clamming up for months about the release of the most anticipated smartphone - iPhone 5 - this year, Apple has finally decided to sing. But it's not singing aloud - with a three word cryptic invitation, “Let’s talk iPhone” send out to the media, Apple has indicated that it will announce the launch of iPhone 5 on Oct. 4. And, nothing more.

Only a couple of hours left for Apple Inc.'s Let's talk iPhone event where the company is expected to launch its most awaited iPhone 5 and a cheaper version of iPhone 4 (iPhone 4S). But it doesn't appear to be a smooth sail for iPhone 5 in Korea since Samsung is getting ready with all the legal weapons it has got to block iPhone 5 sales in that country.

Typically, Japanese whaling vessels sail to the Antarctic in late autumn and return the following spring.

Ten years after lawyers helped forge an agreement to bring China into the World Trade Organization , a step that created opportunities for scores of non-Chinese businesses, foreign attorneys in the country wish they had struck a better deal for themselves.

Uncertainty over Yahoo may have attracted interest from Russia’s Digital Sky Technologies as well as from China’s Alibaba Group and Silver Lake Partners.

Japanese electronics firms are suffering from the downturn in European consumption and the euro's slump to a 10-year low against the yen, senior executives from Sony Corp, Panasonic Corp and Fujitsu Ltd said on Tuesday.

Japanese Finance Minister Jun Azumi urged Europe on Tuesday to come up with a transparent scheme to resolve the Greek debt crisis, to help stabilize the world economy and keep the euro from weakening too much against the yen.

Asian stocks extended losses on Tuesday from the previous day's steep declines as investors continued to flee from riskier assets on growing doubts over Greece's ability to avoid default, fuelling fears of global financial turmoil and recession.

The Facebook pages of Kim Jong-Il's exiled son and grandson show the pair has a strong interest in American culture.

NASA administrator Charles Bolden calls for more international cooperation.

Major automakers posted double-digit percentage U.S. sales gains for September in a rebound that General Motors Co said showed the economy was likely to steer clear of a double-dip recession.

Signs of a U.S. recession, if not a global recession, are multiplying daily -- so much so that the cover on the latest issue of The Economist shows a black hole with the words, Be Afraid.

ALMA, the world's most powerful ground-based telescope, officially opened for astronomers on Monday after a decade of planning and construction. The telescope under construction is already flooded with hundreds of project proposals as eager astronomers flock to explore the building blocks of the Universe.