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Militants launched a string of attacks in the Pakistani heartland and in the troubled northwest on Thursday, killing 31 people after a week of violence in which more than 100 people died.

The war crimes trial of Radovan Karadzic, who led Bosnian Serbs into a 1992-1995 war that killed 100,000 people, will start on October 26 in The Hague, judges ordered on Thursday.

Lockheed Martin Corp on Thursday said its board had elected Christopher Kubasik as the company's president and chief operating officer, a reorganization aimed at strengthening program oversight in an increasingly difficult environment for U.S. defense spending.

NATO's top defense officials will examine proposals Saturday for a big troop surge to contain Afghanistan's escalating insurgency but any such move hinges on a decision by the U.S. president, NATO military officials said.

Southwest Airlines reported a third-quarter net loss on Thursday on charges for its employee buyout program and the shrinking value of its fuel hedge portfolio.

U.S. mortgage foreclosure filings fell for a second straight month in September, but remained near a record high, amid ongoing and sweeping efforts to keep borrowers in their homes, a report released on Thursday showed.

Citigroup Inc posted a quarterly per-share loss as it suffered $8 billion of credit losses, raising questions about when the bank can return to sustained profitability.

U.S. mortgage foreclosure filings fell for a second straight month in September, but remained near a record high, amid ongoing and sweeping efforts to keep borrowers in their homes, a report released on Thursday showed.

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Google plans to launch an online store for electronic books in the first half of next year, offering about half a million books initially in partnership with publishers with whom it already cooperates.

Oil fell back from a year high on Thursday but stayed above $75 a barrel, reversing its sixth straight positive session after European shares pared gains and the euro fell on disappointing Q3 earnings reports, traders said.

One American industry is booming amid the slump and job losses: mortgage rescue scams that prey on homeowners in financial straits.

Oops, Britney Spears has done it again, with the U.S. pop singer cementing her comeback with a new single, 3, rocketing to No. 1 in its debut week.

U.S. consumer prices rose marginally in September and the number of workers filing new claims for jobless insurance hit a nine-month low last week, more proof the economy was healing after a protracted recession.

U.S. consumer prices rose marginally in September and the number of workers filing new claims for jobless insurance hit a nine-month low last week, more proof the economy was healing after a protracted recession.

Advance sales for This Is It look set to make the concert movie starring the late Michael Jackson into one of the hottest tickets of the year.

The seven-bedroom, three-bath house in this city's West Garfield Park neighborhood had once been someone's American Dream.

Director Roman Polanski is finishing work on his latest film from a Swiss jail where he is fighting extradition to the United States on a 1977 sex charge, writer Robert Harris was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless insurance unexpectedly fell last week to the lowest level since January, according to a government report on Thursday that hinted at stabilization in the labor market.

A new Janet Jackson greatest hits album, Number Ones, will hit U.S. stores November 17.

Capital One Financial Corp's U.S. credit-card defaults rose in September as more Americans lost their jobs, in another sign that consumers remain under stress.