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Gold prices fell Thursday around the world as investor fears of a Euro zone collapse gave way to hope that coordinated intervention by global monetary authorities could contain and even cure the continent's sovereign debt crisis.

While public schools have focused their energy on training students in math and reading since the passage of No Child Left Behind, the College Board announced SAT scores in combined reading and math this year have dropped to their lowest point since 1995.

HTC Bliss, the long-rumored Android phone designed for women, was allegedly renamed to HTC Rhyme, according to a newly leaked press shot.

Continuing the strengthening of its intellectual property, Google acquired 1,023 patents from International Business Machines Crop. (IBM). The patents range from signature verification system for documents to display system with image scanning apparatus.

NASA has disclosed the plans for a rocket successor to the space shuttle on Wednesday. This rocket would be the most powerful so far to take off from Earth. The design would cost $18 billion and is aimed at a 2017 unmanned test flight of the most powerful rocket since the moon race's Saturn V rockets.

Spraying insulin twice daily in the nose can control early Alzheimer's disease, a study published online in the Archives of Neurology suggests.

Nobel Prize winning physicist Ivar Giaever resigned as a Fellow from the American Physical Society (APS) on Tuesday, condemning the group's official stand on global warming. In 2007, APS adopted an official statement on global warming, which said that the emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are changing the atmosphere in ways that affect the Earth's climate.

Groupon seeks to go public in October or November, people familiar with the matter told the New York Times on Wednesday, a week after the daily deals website put its IPO on hold for a few weeks as it waited to ride out global market turmoil.

With fingernails nearly 20 feet long, Chris The Dutchess Walton set the record for the world's longest nails, which took 18 years to grow. That must be one expensive manicure.

Yankees great Mariano Rivera has solidified himself as one of the top closers of all-time, becoming the only other person in MLB history with 600 saves. He is one save away from tying the all-time saves record.

The iPhone 5 could be on the way to Sprint (T) this autumn, and if that is the case, that will likely mean good things for other sector players, including existing iPhone provider AT&T (T).

Kirstie Alley underwent a dramatic weight loss, a long battle she has dealt with over the years. I've lost 100 pounds! a svelte 60-year-old Kirstie Alley told Entertainment Tonight on Tuesday.

Hollywood executive John Calley, who held high-level positions at three studios and later produced The Da Vinci Code movie among many others, died on Tuesday at age 81, his representatives said.

MPI Media Group said on Wednesday it has acquired Yelling to the Sky, a film drama starring two of the best young actresses working today: Gabourey Sidibe and Zoe Kravitz.

Jamba Juice is offering $2 smoothies for a limited time. Starting Wednesday until Sept. 27, Jamba Juice is offering sixteen ounce fruit smoothies for $2, along with $2 slow-cooked oatmeal and $1 backed goods with any purchase.

Three senior Goldman Sachs Private Wealth Management advisers left the bank earlier this month to form an independent San Francisco boutique, Seven Post Investment Office LP.

Sempra Energy said it will group its power generation, pipelines, storage and LNG businesses into two new operating units, Sempra International and Sempra U.S. Gas & Power to realign operations.

Two people were murdered in Mexico for what they said on Twitter. It is a shocking crime, but not the first time such an event has happened.

The Salahis have a history of publicity stunts

New York City is set to announce a bike sharing program that will encompass much of Manhattan and Brooklyn by 2012, broadening the city's focus on facilitating bicycle transportation.

After sparking an extensive investigation, a former New York TV meteorologist admitted Wednesday that she invented claims of being assaulted by a stranger in Central Park.