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Euro zone interest rates will very likely remain on hold next week as the European Central Bank navigates the transition to new leadership, with an anti-crisis plan forged by EU leaders taking some heat off monetary policymakers.

An agreement by a private equity firm to buy Mosaid Technologies for C$590 million ($594 million) includes core wireless patents controlled by the Ottawa-based target company as part of a recent deal with Nokia and Microsoft.

Salma Hayek has been many things: movie star, director, producer, wife and mother. On Friday, she adds clawless and lawless to that list as the fierce, female heroine Kitty Softpaws in new animated film, Puss in Boots.

Europe has staved off an imminent financial crisis and fears of a U.S. double-dip recession may have been overblown. With the Federal Reserve already lowering long-term interest rates through Operation Twist, it seems QE3 is not likely to come.

Pay talks between Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold and a union representing striking workers at its Indonesia mine are deadlocked after a week of negotiations, the union said on Friday.

Stocks edged lower on Friday as investors took a breather from a powerful rally that propelled the S&P to close above its 200-day moving average for the first time since August.

Gary Johnson, the long-shot alternative to Ron Paul for the libertarian vote in the Republican primaries, has staked his campaign almost entirely on New Hampshire. But if he doesn't hurry up, his name might not even be on the ballot there.

Sluggish growth in U.S. consumer income in September led households to cut back on saving to increase their spending, casting doubts over the durability of the economy's third-quarter growth spurt.

Claiming election fraud, nearly 100 Tunisians protested Tuesday outside the headquarters of the independent electoral body, saying the country's first-ever elections have been marred.

A recent poll seeking to gauge public understanding of climate engineering across the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom has made a surprising discovery: 72 percent of respondents were favorably inclined toward exploring climate engineering and solar radiation management (SRM) options.

Canadian stocks looked set to open lower on Friday after rallying more than 2 percent on Thursday, as the investor optimism that followed Europe's latest debt crisis plan began to fade.

From thousands of miles away, Chinese military is believed to have hacked American satellites between 2007 and 2008.

A side-by-side look at two high-end smartphones.

With the upcoming trailer of Grand Theft Auto V being released Nov. 5, rumors put the game's setting in Los Angeles.

Merck & Co's quarterly profit and sales beat forecasts as strong demand for the company's diabetes and asthma drugs offset a sharp decline for its Remicade arthritis drug.

Stocks were set for a lower open on Friday as investors looked to book profits a day after a powerful rally that propelled the S&P to close above its 200-day moving average for the first time since August.

Chevron Corp said its quarterly earnings more than doubled, beating Wall Street forecasts, as the second-largest U.S. oil company benefited from high oil prices and strong refinery margins.

Joseph Sellers, an attorney representing the female Wal-Mart employees, said as many as 15 class actions will be filed targeting the retail giant's regional areas.

Michael Ellsberg IB Times interview.

WPP Plc , the world's largest advertising company, sought to reassure the market with a pledge of improving margins on Friday, after it cut as expected its 2011 outlook due to slowing growth in the U.S. and the euro zone debt crisis.

A coalition of religious organizations has come together to urge Congressional leaders to spare safety-net programs that assist the poor when they search for ways to reduce the U.S. budget deficit.