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A three-year-old lawsuit over Bank of America's purchase of Merrill Lynch will be settled by Bank of America paying $2.43 billion.

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Bank of America (BAC.N) said it will pay $2.43 billion to settle a class action lawsuit with investors who held its securities at the time the company announced plans to acquire Merrill Lynch.

U.S. coffee chain Starbucks Corp (Nasdaq:SBUX) will launch its first coffee shop in India by the end of October with Tata Global Beverages, John Culver, president, China and Asia Pacific, said Friday.

The Biafra War ended in 1970, but sectarian violence still rages in Nigeria. Chinua Achebe's new memoir recalls that bloody conflict with an eye toward preventing new ones.

The sinking of the Joola ferry off the coast of west Africa was one of the worst maritime disasters in history.

China's three decades of miraculous GDP growth is over because the recent slowdown is largely structural in nature.

Facebook Inc e-commerce platform has launched features for users to buy and send gifts, Reuters has reported.

The U.S. stock index futures point to a slightly higher open Friday ahead of the personal income and spending data for August to be released by the Commerce Department.

Slain al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was blind in one eye and had been a member of the Saudi Arabian branch of Muslim Brotherhood in his youth, his successor Ayman al-Zawahiri revealed in a video posted online Wednesday.

A week after its worldwide release on major US carriers like AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint, Apple’s sixth generation iPhone, the iPhone 5, is now set to arrive on a number of regional carriers also, starting on Friday.

Chinese naval ships have carried out patrolling and military training in waters off disputed islands held by Japan, the Defense Ministry said Thursday.

Valve, the fiercely independent and eccentric Seattle-based game development studio that’s created some of the most celebrated brands in PC gaming including “Half Life” and the Steam platform, is facing another round of buyout reports, this time from the massively successful Korean video game giant Nexon (TYO:3659).

Israeli PM Netanyahu brought a simple drawing of a bomb into the U.N. chambers Thursday, sparking a small twitter kerfluffle.

RIM Nasdaq: RIMM) reported a smaller-than-expected second-quarter loss and surprisingly higher sales.

Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX) has been aggressively pursuing global expansion. Coffee-hungry Scandinavia is its next target.

News Corp. is reversing its decision to block Google from indexing content from its paywalled UK newspaper, The Times.

Bayer HealthCare agreed to halve the price of the Jadelle progestogen implants for 27 million women in developing countries.

In New York Thursday, Mario Monti said looming fiscal cliff and debt crisis issues in Washington might be solved by taking a page out of the Italian playbook.

Micron Technology (NYSE: MU), the sole U.S. DRAM maker, will report a loss but what about new orders?

The winning ticket for the $202 million Powerball jackpot Wednesday was sold in Iowa.