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Mali was in turmoil Wednesday as soldiers stormed the state TV and radio station in Bamako and attacked the presidential palace.

Fredde and Mickan own a waterfront mansion in the Stockholm suburbs, hire Polish help and have endless cash to spend on state-of-the-art barbecues and designer labels.

Volvo Car Corporation is recalling certain S60 and XC60 cars because of safety concerns related to punctured fuel lines and possible fuel leakage leading to an increased risk of fire, said a report filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in March.

In Sweden, monetary transactions made with physical cash are down to three percent of the national economy... and the rest of the world may be closer to cashless than you think.

In three short days, Apple has sold off more three million copies of its third-generation iPad, simply called the new iPad, the company said in a statement released Monday. The new iPad features a stunning new Retina Display, which is the best screen to ever grace a tablet, the speeds of 4G LTE connectivity, an improved 5-megapixel iSight rear camera, and a bigger battery to power 10 hours of life.

The highly anticipated Samsung S2 Ice Cream Sandwich has arrived with updates rolling out in the U.K on Monday.

Outgoing Deutsche Bank chief executive Josef Ackermann said he had no plans for further jobs besides several prominent European-based board seats such as Swedish family-run Investor and German group Siemens .

HTC has confirmed that it will be pushing out the Android Ice Cream Sandwich update for 16 of its smartphones and tablets.

Apple has confirmed that the new iPad, the third generation of its category, will launch in the U.S. and nine other countries on Friday, March 16, at 8 a.m. local time. Here are all the information on the device's pricing, availability, trade-in offers and roundup of reviews from mainstream publications.

The company has announced about an Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich update for several selected tablets.

Samsung has finally announced the Android Ice Cream Sandwich update for its Galaxy S2 phone, which is rolling out in Europe Tuesday.

The European Commission doesn't believe the Greek austerity measures currently adopted are enough. For 2013 and 2014, it is demanding additional cuts equivalent to 5.5 percent of the GDP, according to a report obtained by Reuters.

Samsung has officially pushed out the highly anticipated Android 4.0 update for its Galaxy S2 devices.

Securities regulators charged a former Coca-Cola Enterprises executive on Thursday with insider-trading, saying his illegal trades helped him reap $86,850 in illicit profits.

World’s No. 1 social networking site Facebook was unavailable for almost 2 hours in Europe and parts of Asia on Wednesday morning. Facebook referred to it as “technical difficulties” and was able to fix it quickly.

Two separate studies from Spain and Sweden have attempted to cue in on developing epithelial cells that keeps the cornea in its transparent form. While Swedish scientists have grown stem cells on human corneas, their Spanish counterparts have regenerated the corneal epithelium by using cells from the healthy limbus of patients with corneal damage.

The report claimed the government set up a private company to keep the Swedish government at arm's length from any dealings with the Saudi authorities and to get around export restrictions.

One of the largest annual technical conferences, South by Southwest (SXSW), will begin Friday, March 9 and last until Sunday, March 18. Here is a full list of the SXSW 2012 music lineup for South by Southwest from March 13-18.

International filings for patent protection, a key indicator of technological innovation in major economies, hit an all-time record last year driven by growth in China and other middle- income countries, a United Nations agency said on Monday.

European Union leaders met on Thursday to discuss the right balance between budget austerity and reviving lost growth, at the first summit for two years in which the euro zone debt crisis did not eclipse all else.

Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners announced on Wednesday the 1.8 billion euro ($2.4 billion) acquisition of technical products wholesaler Ahlsell from Cinven and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, marking Europe's largest private equity deal in almost a year.