UNITED STATES

U.S. stock futures rose on Friday on upbeat earnings and economic data.

The credit agency’s downgrade of Spain follows a similar cut by Fitch Ratings last week.

Wall Street's commute Friday morning was disrupted as a band of hundreds involved with the Occupy Wall Street protest marched the streets of Lower Manhattan to Wall Street, obstructed by police and followed by dozens of reporters with cameras flashing. Police were seen making at least several arrests.

China's consumer inflation dipped to 6.1 percent in September, retreating further from three-year highs, although stubborn food price pressures will deter the central bank from loosening its policy reins anytime soon.

Gold prices ticked up Friday as market sentiment swung back towards risk and away from safety, but there was little evidence the yellow metal was ready to break out of recent trading limits.

Stock index futures rose on Friday, shrugging off a credit rating downgrade of Spain, propelled by strong earnings from Google Inc. and hopes the Eurozone will continue progress toward a solution to its debt crisis.

Stock index futures rose on Friday, shrugging off a credit rating downgrade of Spain, propelled by strong earnings from Google Inc and hopes the euro zone will continue progress toward a solution to its debt crisis.

Apple's newly released iPhone 4S, labeled to be a flop phone by many when it came out last week, has already become a huge success among customers, even before it went on sale in stores across the globe Friday, with many of them buying it as a tribute to Steve Jobs.

Research In Motion Ltd. said a server problem has hampered accessing emails for three days by BlackBerry customers worldwide. RIM apologized for the service interruptions and delays and said that there was significant increase in service levels.

Apple Inc.'s iPhone 4S sales in stores began in Japan, Australia, France, UK, Germany, Canada and the U.S. on Friday, with fans snapping up the final gadget unveiled during Steve Jobs' lifetime.

The owners of Lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, site of the Occupy Wall Street encampment, announced before dawn Friday they will postpone their scheduled cleanup of the area, possibly heading off a massive confrontation between protesters and police.

iPhone 4S launch is shaping up as the mother of all launches. Apple Stores worldwide have come alive in a celebratory mood, shaking off the gloom that Steve Jobs' death created , gingerly welcoming the last iPhone that had the dead icon's signature on.

The Eurozone debt crisis will dominate a summit of G20 finance chiefs and central bank heads in Paris, with a downgrade of Spain's credit rating highlighting the risk of a much larger economy than Greece coming under threat.

Men’s Health magazine has released a latest ranking of America’s 100 luckiest towns according to which, San Diego has been ranked the luckiest city of United States.The top ten slot features California city and of course, the gambling capital of the country Las Vegas is also listed.

Gold was slightly higher on Friday and headed for its biggest weekly gain in more than a month, shrugging off the credit rating downgrade of Spain ahead of a G20 meeting whose agenda will be dominated by the euro zone debt crisis.

After the pre-orders record breaking sales queues are formed outside many Apple stores this week with customers keen to get hold of the new iPhone 4S.

The Psych gang makes a welcome return tonight with another season rife with rapid-fire pop culture references, more guest stars than Love Boat and … pretend psychic Shawn Spencer (James Roday) being exposed?

Sri Lankan-born Hedge fund tycoon Raj Rajaratnam was sentenced to 11 years in prison for the biggest hedge fund insider trading case in the U.S., but the verdict was not as stringent as legal circles had predicted.

G20 finance chiefs and central bank heads from the world's biggest economies meet in Paris on Friday needing to find a solution to a deepening euro zone debt crisis that has fanned fears of a global recession.

Apple's new operating system, for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, iOS 5, comes with more than 200 new features, and one extremely useful among them is the iMessage.

Even when Lindsay Lohan is doing some good, people have a problem with it.