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Tired of suffocating crowds and seemingly never-ending lines? On Saturday, retailers want you to think small.

Global miner Rio Tinto warned on Monday that further cracks could be emerging in global commodities markets as the economies of Europe and the U.S. waver, with its customers increasingly cautious on the outlook.

Japanese industrial giant Hitachi could double its earnings in the next couple of years, veteran investor Michael Katz told Barron's.

Newt Gingrich got praise from an unexpected source on Sunday: former President Bill Clinton, who spent much of the 1990s at loggerheads with a Gingrich-led Congress. Clinton pointed to two unconventional positions the latest Republican front-runner took at a national security debate last week and said that independent voters were hungry for ideas that make some sense.

This year’s Thanksgiving Day Massacre was AT&T’s $39 billion deal to acquire T-Mobile to create the biggest U.S. wireless carrier.

Secondary pharmaceutical distributors say a major report that accused them of price gouging -- and as a result, worsening the current U.S. drug shortage -- used exaggerated figures to imply so-called 'gray market' vendors charge exorbitant prices for their products.

Reuters found a Japanese banker who is a key figure in the Olympus Corp accounting scandal at a luxury apartment block in Hong Kong on Sunday, where he exploded in anger at finally being tracked down.

Hold on, I'm in the middle of a Twitter war with Nouriel Roubini, author James Rickards says as he answers the phone from his Manhattan office.

Colombian FARC rebels executed four members of the security forces during a botched mission to free them after a decade as hostages, the most violent act by the group since troops killed its leader Alfonso Cano this month.

Protesters gathered again in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday to try to evict the generals who replaced Hosni Mubarak, in a trial of strength that has muddied the run-up to Egypt's first vote since a popular revolt deposed the former leader this year.

Pakistan on Sunday buried 24 troops killed in a NATO cross-border air raid that has pushed a crisis in already-strained relations with the United States toward rupture.

Yemen's vice president on Saturday called presidential elections for Feb. 21 under a deal aimed at ending months of protests against President Ali Abdullah Saleh that have brought the country to the edge of civil war.

The already tenuous relationship between Pakistan and the United States has been plunged into another crisis, following NATO strikes on two military outposts in northwest Pakistan, on Saturday. U.S. President Barack Obama has vowed a full investigation into the attack that has allegedly killed 28 Pakistani troops.

Over the past year, the international movement to halt the shark fin trade has made leaps and bounds, moving up the chain from campaigns targeting consumers to efforts by politicians to implement stricter legislation against the sale, possession and distribution of shark fins. From the U.S. West Coast to Europe and Asia, progress is being made to turn the dish itself into an endangered menu item.

A study has revealed that most heart patients prefer long life to quality of life.

Philippine police and the FBI have arrested four people over a hacking operation that targeted customers of U.S. telecommunications giant AT&T to funnel money to a Saudi-based militant group.

Tired of suffocating crowds and seemingly never-ending lines? On Saturday, retailers want you to think small.

The first report of Black Friday 2011 sales has been released, with record numbers suggesting good news for retailers heading into the holiday shopping season.

Things seem to be heating up between Jennifer Lopez and her rumored new backup dancer boyfriend Casper Smart. The two were photographed in Hawaii over the Thanksgiving weekend cuddling up on a beach on Saturday morning.

A judge last week sentenced a Rankin County, Miss., mother of two to three years in federal prison for lying on her food stamp application.

NATO helicopters and fighter jets attacked two military outposts in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing as many as 28 troops and plunging U.S.-Pakistan relations deeper into crisis.