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Cinematographer Denny Hall, who had worked on TV productions since the late 1980s, died Thursday morning in New Orleans, after suffering a heart attack while on location for the upcoming USA Network drama Common Law.

British singer Robbie Williams, who signed one of the world's biggest music deals with EMI in 2002, is to release his ninth studio album with Universal Music, the world's largest music company, next year.

Noble Energy reported a quarterly profit that topped Wall Street expectations, helped by higher-than-expected production and prices.

Carl Icahn wants Navistar to consider merging with rival Oshkosh, though he has not yet made a formal proposal to either company.

U.S. stocks rose to their highest in more than two months on Friday before a weekend European Union debt-crisis summit that could potentially remove a major headwind for markets and allow investors to focus on corporate results.

Clinton nonetheless assured Islamabad of the U.S.’ long-term support.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney defended Vice President Joe Biden's remarks about rising rates of murders and rapes as police departments shrink due to budget cuts.

U.S. Ron Paul, R-Texas, has one message for the national media in protest to their lack of coverage of his campaign: Bring it.

Moammar Gadhafi is dead, but the actual details of what happened between Gadhafi, alive, being pulled from a sewage pipe and his body arriving in Misrata are still unclear.

The Turkish army is responding to an attack that left 24 Turkish soldiers dead, one of the deadliest single attacks in the long conflict between government the Kurdish Workers' Party, or the PKK. Meanwhile, the parliament is working on a new constitution that could address the Kurds' grievances.

McDonald's Corp reported a higher-than-expected quarterly profit as new menu items and renovations helped lift sales at established restaurants around the world in September, and its shares rose nearly 3 percent.

McDonald's Corp reported a higher-than-expected quarterly profit as new menu items and renovations helped lift sales at established restaurants around the world in September, and its shares rose nearly 3 percent.

EU antitrust regulators are investigating agreements between Johnson & Johnson and Novartis over concerns they may have delayed the entry of a generic version of a powerful painkiller on to the Dutch market.

Stock indexes rose at the open on Friday ahead of a European Union debt-crisis summit on the weekend that could go some way in removing one of the biggest overhangs for markets and allow investors to focus on corporate results.

The U.S. stock market opened sharply higher Friday on hopes of a Eurozone bailout.

General Electric Co reported an 18 percent rise in quarterly profit that met Wall Street's expectations, as revenue rose across its big energy, aviation, healthcare and transportation arms.

Investors in the world's biggest oil companies are expected to look beyond the bumper profits the groups will announce next week on the back of higher oil prices, and seek clues on how the companies can maintain income growth as crude stabilizes.

In a 50-50 vote, a bill that would have extended $35 billion to states to hire and retain more teachers and first responders was blocked by the Senate.

Harold Camping, the 90-year-old evangelistic radio broadcaster had got the world's undivided attention previously when he had predicted the world's end on May 21st this year. Unfortunately ( rather fortunately), his prophecy did not come true( very evident with the fact that you are still reading this article).

Stock indexes rose at the open on Friday ahead of a European Union debt-crisis summit on the weekend that could go some way in removing one of the biggest overhangs for markets and allow investors to focus on corporate results.

Oct. 21 has come and gone in New Zealand and Australia, making Doomsday predictor Harold Camping incorrect, once again.