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Samsung Electronics (Seoul: 005930) said shipments of its latest-version Galaxy S3 smartphone exceed 20 million, only six weeks after passing the 10 million mark. The announcement cements the South Korean electronics giant’s lead as the No. 1 seller in the Android OS sector.

In May 2011, bin Laden was shot and killed in a compound in Abbottabad, a garrison town not far from the capital Islamabad.

The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits fell last week to its lowest level in a month, an upbeat signal for a labor market that has struggled to create enough jobs.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will commence evaluation of the mobile broadband speed to help customers know if they are getting value for money.

Samsung announced two months ago that its new Galaxy S3 smartphone achieved 10 million sales at the end of July. Since then, the company has claimed to have doubled the figure by reaching 20 million Galaxy S3 sales, 100 days after the handset was launched in May.

For a mere $8 billion, Iraq gets brand spanking new American fighter jets -- and a heavily armed neighborhood gets some more lethal, highly advanced weapons

Yemen will receive $6.4 billion in foreign aid as it struggles to rebuild its economy following shaky political transition in the face of food and water shortages and ongoing internal conflicts with Al Qaeda militants in the south and Shiite insurgents in the north.

The stakes are high. Friday's August jobs report will be the last major data point for the Federal Reserve to consider ahead of the Sept. 12-13 FOMC meeting.

The U.S. stock index futures point to a higher open Thursday as investor sentiment was underpinned by the expectation that the European Central Bank would announce stimulus measures to ease the euro zone debt burden.

Sandra Fluke delivered a short, rousing speech at at the Democratic National Convention and condemned Mitt Romney for not standing up to the extreme voices in the GOP.

Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren casts Obama as a defender of middle class values in her DNC address.

Fantasy football attracts millions of players in the United States, with sites like ESPN and Yahoo! offering their own leagues. But how much of an impact does it have in the workplace? A new study suggests that employers may lose as much as $6.5 billion each year to fantasy football.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's speech to the Democratic National Convention.

Bill Clinton may have been impeached while he was president of the United States, but he's still one of the most widely beloved politicians in the land. In fact, even as he readied to give his highly-anticipated address Wednesday at the Democratic National Convention, he was getting praise from the likes of ultra-conservative GOP vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan.

Monica Lewinsky's rabbi will be delivering the benediction at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night, just after Bill Clinton speaks, ABC News reported.

Apparently, the Democrats don't think the average woman voter is very shrewd.

Some parents seem to immunize their children because of the potential benefits to others, but whether or not this is a common motivator is largely unknown, researchers wrote.

Tropical Storm Leslie has strengthened into a hurricane, according to the National Weather Service. The storm, currently sitting east of Florida and the Bahamas, is not expected to make landfall in the United States, and no hurricane watches have been issues along the Atlantic coast.

After Gottfrid Svartholm was arrested in Cambodia, the Internet was awash with rumors of governments working together to combat online piracy. Those rumors appeared to be confirmed Wednesday when it was announced Sweden would give Cambodia $59 million after the news broke that the Pirate Bay co-founder would be extradited.

Railroad executives said Wednesday that they are not expecting strong growth in cargo volume in the pre-holiday shopping season, but most future holiday gifts are delivered by trucks.

President Barack Obama’s Democratic National Convention address in Charlotte is moving indoors after organizers said safety concerns from rough weather forecasts forced them to shift the gathering. The GOP contends the weather is a safe cover story for what is actually tepid enthusiasm and possibly many empty seats.