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With a gaining 5.2 percentage point to capture 36.4 percent of all smartphone users, Google's Android was at the top in the U.S. smartphone operating system market for the three months ending in April, a ComScore report revealed.

Microsoft continues to decline in the smartphone platform market in the U.S, while Google's Android is pulling away from the rest of the smartphone pack, according to new data from market research firm comScore.

French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde will likely become the next head of the International Monetary Fund , with backing of the United States and Japan, the Nikkei financial daily reported on Sunday, citing unidentified global financial industry sources in Washington.

Around 1 in 8 women in United States (12 percent) develop aggressive breast cancer over the course of their lifetime. About 40,000 women in the U.S. died in 2010 from breast cancer.

Sarah Palin continued her One Nation bus tour of historical sites on Friday, visiting sites in Boston marking the eve of and early stages of the American Revolution in 1775, including the home of famous intelligence messenger Paul Revere, church-turned-signal house Christ Church, and Bunker Hill, site of an early battle won by the British at the cost of heavy losses.

The U.S. faces Spain in Gold Cup action.

This Monday, June 6, will be the 67th anniversary of the most decisive battle of World War II which finally turned the tide against Nazi Germany and ultimately paved the way for an Allied Victory in the European Theatre.

More bad days may be in store for stocks in coming weeks, but investors aren't pressing the panic button. Not yet.

Multinationals and governments have succumbed to cyber attacks this week, spotlighting a growing trend for criminals and vigilantes to take to the net to cause havoc.

Regarded as one of the most dangerous militants in the world, Ilyas Kashmiri, a senior al Qaeda operative,was killed by a U.S. drone aircraft missile strike in Pakistan, an intelligence official and local media said on Saturday.

Al-Qaeda terrorist and Mumbai terror attack mastermind Ilyas Kashmiri were among nine militants killed in a US drone strike, BBC reported today, quoting residents of South Waziristan tribal region.

The United States is seriously concerned about cyber-attacks and is prepared to use force against those it considers acts of war, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said at a security meeting in Asia on Saturday.

The president of Toyota Motors <7203.T> said on Saturday he expects the automaker to resume full production globally in November and its Japanese output is expected this month to recover to 90 percent of levels seen before a March earthquake.

There is a possibility of political talks between the U.S. and the Afghan Taliban by the end of this year, if the U.S-led NATO alliance continued to make military advances on the ground, said U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Saturday.

In an apparent protest against the NATO and Obama administration, the LulzSec group announced the breach of FBI affiliate website, the Atlanta chapter of Infragard. The group raised claims that they have taken “complete control” over the website and has “defaced it”. They also announced that the data including passwords obtained from infragardatlanta.org would prove useful for them to hack into other FBI affiliates, since a lot of users tend to reuse their passwords even though the practice is ...

President Barack Obama should clarify the U.S. role in the conflict in Libya, demanded the House of Representatives on Friday. However, it rebuffed an attempt to force him to end America's military involvement in the country.

Still unidentified individuals or groups have been perpetrating scams to gain access to e-mail accounts held by government officials on the three major U.S.-based e-mail platforms.

Boeing Co will lay off about 510 employees in its Space Exploration division as the United States' space shuttle program draws to a close.

At one time, he seemingly had it all: A political career to boast of, a name everyone - or at least most Democrats - respected, a wife that loved him for 32 long years, and four children to show for it. But, oh, how easy it is to fall; one faulty move and the king is in check. It is this position John Edwards now finds himself.

NEW YORK - Just days ahead of its planned unveiling of its iCloud service, Apple has succeeded in securing licensing deals from all four major labels and music publishers.

Groupon CEO Andrew Mason once thought of the hundreds of companies copying his business plan as plagiarists.