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Liquidnet Inc, a U.S. venue where institutions anonymously trade public stocks, was sued by Wedbush Securities Inc for allegedly stealing trade secrets to start a rival business trading shares of private companies.

A landscape painting by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt that had been stolen by the Nazis is expected to fetch more than $25 million when it is sold at auction next month, Sotheby's said on Thursday.

While it lacks the gory monsters of The Thing and the gotcha scares of Paranormal Activity 3, Martha Marcy May Marlene may be the most terrifying movie opening in theaters this month. It slowly but assuredly packs on the dread and the discomfort in a style that Roman Polanski would admire, resulting in the kind of movie you can feel tensing up the base of your spine.

Charlie Sheen tweeted Tuesday that he will dress as himself for Halloween, releasing this picture as posted on WhoSay. Needless to say, the former Two and a Half Men star sparked heated Twitter responses from fans and from those who think a bit less favorably of the winning star.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Thursday picked a Joseph Lhota, an executive at Madison Square Garden and a former top aide to Mayor Rudy Giuliani, to run one of the biggest transportation agencies in the world.

The New York Yankees have scouted 25-year-old Japanese pitching sensation Yu Darvish and are open to bidding for the 6'5'', 220-pound right-hander if he goes through the posting process that's required for his early entry into Major League Baseball.

The United States, in perhaps its strongest language since the war on terrorism started 10 years ago, warned Pakistan that it would face serious consequences if it continued to tolerate safe havens for extremist organizations that kill Americans.

There's a dark underside to the life of a subway conductor

Hackers who infiltrated the Nasdaq's computer systems installed malicious software on the exchange's computers that allowed them to spy on scores of directors of publicly held companies, according to two people familiar with an investigation into the matter.

The Libyan fighter who captured Moammar Gadhafi on Thursday, Mohammed El Bibi, was wearing a New York Yankees cap, according to multiple reports.

Editorial staff at Rupert Murdoch's remaining upscale London newspapers were informed on Thursday of impending budget and staff cuts, which may include some compulsory layoffs.

Occupy Wall Street has camped out at Zucotti Park in Lower Manhattan for weeks, but it probably isn't reaching as many bankers as it could. Which could have something to do with the fact that finance is no longer the area's biggest tenant.

David Stern has a cold. The NBA commissioner is sick of the NBA lockout and sick of the negotiations and labor talks that have come with it in the past few weeks.

The new couple was first romantically linked in September, after a dinner in New York City.

South Africa's rand tumbled 2.5 percent to a two week low against the dollar on Thursday, falling quickly in the last hour of trading when stop losses were triggered above the 8.15 level by new complications over Europe's debt problems.

If you're a glass-half-empty kind of person, the downside of the technological revolution that put lightweight, inexpensive video cameras in the hands of regular folks would have to include America's Funniest Home Videos, the celebrity sex tape (see Kardashian, Kim; career launch-pad of) and the Paranormal Activity franchise.

Scarlett Johansson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are the latest additions to the rumor mill of celebrity couples. Various sources have claimed to see the two in action, but reps from both actors continue to shoot the rumors down.

Taylor Farms Retail Inc. is recalling 3,265 cases of salad blends because of potential contamination with salmonella, the Salinas, California company said on Thursday.

Alexander Payne's The Descendants, Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life and Sean Durkin's Martha Marcy May Marlene are among the top nominees for the Gotham Independent Film Awards, one of the two major film awards devoted to independent film.

Spirit Day is a day for promoting knowledge of and support for those victims who face anti-homosexual bullying.

The infamous ex-JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater, whose dramatic exit from a plane make him a folk here, is penning a memoir after being sentenced on Wednesday to probation.