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Research In Motion's BlackBerry Messenger service was disrupted by an apparent service outage on Friday, adding a further headache as the company reels from a dismal earnings report.

Seven states said they would join the U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust suit to bar the $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile USA by AT&T.

Although many of the world’s democratic states have had females as presidents and/or prime ministers – surprisingly, many have not, including the most powerful democracy on Earth, the United States.

Former President Jimmy Carter appeared on MSNBC Thursday night and endorsed candidate Mitt Romney for the Republican Party's presidential nomination. Could the endorsement doom Romney's nomination chances?

Thousands of bees swarm and attack animals, farmers.

President Barack Obama Friday signed into law a the first major overhaul of U.S. patent law since 1952 -- one that officials say will speed the application and approval process for inventors -- a short-cut that could lead to more inventions coming to market sooner, creating more jobs.

Irish startup Tethras on Friday rolled out a translation service aimed at helping mobile application developers target non-English speaking users.

A Wall Street regulator said industry complaints about market manipulation and trade reporting have spiked this year, raising questions about the adequacy of banks' internal controls over their traders.

Stocks rose for a fifth day on Friday on hopes Europe was on course to solve its debt problems, but investors warned of sharp reversals if real solutions failed to materialize.

It was supposed to be a purely offensive and tactical move on the part of President Barack Obama and his campaign, but it has turned into quite the mockery-inducing blunder.

Sarah Palin can sure get into bed in some surprising places.I'm not talking about a sexual life, either. It's The New York Times that Palin has cozied up to, and that is causing a second look.

That's what happened in Cairo. That's what happened in Madrid. You don't want those kinds of riots here.

Heidi Jones is hardly the first TV weatherman (or weatherwoman) to run afoul of the law.

At a meeting with E.U. finance ministers, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner made the case for a leveraged E.U. buyout fund ala the U.S.'s successful 2008 TALF, to help address Europe’s banking crisis, but the structure and size of any beefed-up intervention mechanism remained undetermined as of Friday night in Europe.

Consumer sentiment inched up in early September, but Americans remained gloomy about the future with a gauge of expectations falling to the lowest level since 1980, a survey released on Friday showed.

Consumer sentiment inched up in early September, but Americans remained gloomy about the future with a gauge of expectations falling to the lowest level since 1980, a survey released on Friday showed.

Presidential candidate Rick Perry said Republican rival Mitt Romney would not provide a stark enough contrast with President Barack Obama in the 2012 election because of his record on health care policy.

Citigroup Inc said it will start charging a monthly fee of $10 on checking and savings accounts with combined balances of less than $1,500, joining a growing list of banks seeking to recoup revenue lost under new financial industry regulations.

Stocks were little changed on Friday as investors booked profits after a four-day rally, but optimism European leaders were on the right track in tackling the region's debt problem kept losses in check.

Geithner is currently in Warsaw, Poland to meet with Eurozone finance ministers to find a way out of the continent’s huge debt problems after more than two years of bailouts, wrecked economies and bickering.

New rates of lung cancer cases among men and women in the United States dropped in 35 states and six states, respectively, between 1999 and 2008, according to a new report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.