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South African government bonds rallied sharply on Wednesday and the yield on the benchmark note fell to 9-month lows as a gloomy global economic climate cast a shadow on the domestic outlook.

New study shows disproportionate HIV infection rate among young black gay and bisexual men.

Moody's Investors Service said it may cut its ratings on Bank of New York Mellon Corp and JPMorgan Chase & Co over the next 18 months, saying the banks might get less U.S. government support in the future.

Garmin forecast a grim year ahead as it grapples with the relentless decline of its once popular personal navigation devices and looks for ways to make them more appealing to customers, who are favoring free navigation apps on their smartphones and tablets.

Seventy-two people have been charged by federal law enforcement officials for their alleged involvement in an online child pornography ring.

Michele Bachmann's "no" vote ad is easy to run now that Congress avoided a financial disaster for America by passing the debt-ceiling bill.

Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, aged 31, is the king of Bhutan, a tiny kingdom in the Himalayas. He was born February 21, 1980 (when Obama was already in college).

The U.S. debt deal has proved unpopular on all ends of the political spectrum, and it earned two prominent detractors on Wednesday with a critical op-ed piece by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, who led a presidentially-appointed deficit reduction committee.

Britain said Wednesday it will introduce a digital exchange where licenses for copyright works may be bought and sold, as part of a revamp of its 300-year-old copyright laws.

The Shady RAT Operation is nothing shocking from what one security expert sees.

Corporations unveiled 66,414 planned job cuts last month, up a sharp 60.3 percent from 41,432 in June.

Sergio Marchionne, the chief executive of both Chrysler and its controlling shareholder Fiat SpA , said he hoped to stay on through 2015 and would groom a successor from within the company's ranks.

Michele Bachmann's new ad in which she touts voting against raising the debt ceiling is questioned.

The financial problems in Rome in the early part of the third century AD stemmed from a military that was getting too large and expensive (one of the pitfalls of carving a huge empire that became too unwieldy.

The popular Web site is set to roll out its first long-form series.

State parks, recreational areas and reserves around the United States are closing their doors as severe budget cuts leave little room for operational costs.

Security experts have discovered the biggest series of cyber attacks to date, involving the infiltration of the networks of 72 organizations including the United Nations, governments and companies around the world.

Stocks fell on Wednesday, and the S&P 500 hit a new low for the year as the latest data triggered more pessimism about the economy's outlook.

Sheen is paying for his ex-wife's rehab

Stocks fell on Wednesday, and the S&P 500 hit a new low for the year as the latest data triggered more pessimism about the economy's outlook.

Wall Street stocks tumbled on Wednesday with the S&P falling to a new low for the year after another round of soft economic data.