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Australia's government unveiled legislation on Wednesday to crack down on cybercrime in the wake of recent cyber attacks on multinational companies and institutions, from Google to the International Monetary Fund and the U.S. Senate.

Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her astronaut husband, Mark Kelly, have made a deal to write a memoir of their lives together, their publisher said on Tuesday.

One child drowns every five days in a portable pool during warm weather months, according to a new study in United States.

Serena Williams, US, took about 96 minutes to defeat Aravane Rezai, France. Williams was absent from the game for 11 long months. First, she stepped on broken glass in a Munich restaurant and had the longest time-out of her career. A few months later she had to remove life-threatening blood clots. So she barely had enough time to train for Wimbledon 2011 and was officially ranked 25th.

On the heels of a breakup rumor, Blake Lively and Leonardo DiCaprio are still very much together, showing up with some private time together in the romantic setting of Carmel, CA - a picturesque coastal town just south of San Francisco.

The Greek government won a vote of confidence early on Wednesday, overcoming a first hurdle in winning new financing to avoid bankruptcy.

Mark Kelly, the husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-AZ, said Tuesday that he will be retiring from NASA after 25 years of working with the space agency.

AT&T Inc said its $39 billion plan to buy T-Mobile USA remains on track for approval in the first quarter of 2012.

Three weeks after landing the Space Shuttle Endeavour at the end of its final voyage, Captain Mark Kelly said he’ll be retiring from NASA and the U.S. Navy to be with his wife, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona, as she recovers from gunshot wounds suffered in January, Reuters reported.

Jon Huntsman is Mormon. In 2011, American voters remain prejudiced against Mormon candidates.

Walgreen Co will stop filling prescriptions for people covered by drug benefits manager Express Scripts Inc at the end of 2011 after failing to agree on new contract terms, walking away from a deal worth more than $5 billion in annual sales.

U.S. financial firms have been cutting staff dramatically this year, with more layoffs expected to come from Wall Street, according to a report on Tuesday.

Anglo Irish Bank Corp PLC has until the end of Wednesday to tell a U.S. judge why it should not have to pay off $200 million of bonds before it sells $10.3 billion worth of loans on U.S. commercial property.

If you need proof that cigarettes are harmful, just look at the new cigarette warning labels.

Germany's Daimler warned of increasing economic risks in emerging markets such as China that could cause the auto industry's growth engine to sputter.

Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman launched his campaign for U.S. president Tuesday with a creative ad that, if nothing else, will certainly have political operatives and voters talking.

Leon Panetta was unanimously confirmed by the Senate Tuesday to be the next Pentagon chief, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Each week brings word of another cyber attack on a major U.S. institution, sending law enforcement scrambling and raising new questions about whether it has the ability or resources to track down cyber criminals.

Cigarette makers are now required to add graphic warning labels depicting rotting teeth, a man exhaling smoke through a hole in his neck, and other images to packaging and advertising in the U.S. by October 22, 2012, government officials said Tuesday.

On Monday June 20th, First Lady Michelle Obama began her first official state visit to Africa. Accompanied by her family, sans her husband U.S. President Barack Obama, Michelle hopes to use this trip to strengthen diplomatic relations between the United States and Africa.

A radioactive form of hydrogen is escaping from nearly three quarters of U.S. nuclear sites, sometimes in quantities hundreds of times over the federal limit of what is hazardous in drinking water.