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The Casey Anthony murder trial on Wednesday will be a shortened session.

Police layoffs in New Jersey will result in more crimes and increased costs to the residents, says a report, confirming media reports of a rise in crime rates in certain cities of the state.

The evidence of double-dip recession in the US economy is growing, with the latest indicators reflecting deteriorated economic conditions not seen in the past three decades.

Nokia expects to begin selling its first smartphone that runs on Microsoft’s Windows 7 later this year, said Stephen Elop, chief executive of Nokia.

The June Bootids, a meteor shower occurring roughly between June 22 and July 2 every year, is predicted to be less active this year.

Eurozone will probably cease to exist by 2013, according to a new study published on Monday.

Google’s Android will continue to lose its market share in the US after the launch of Apple's iPhone 5 later this year, an analyst said on Monday.

Apple has come under the scanner of Competition Commission of India (CCI) following a complaint filed by an user against the company for following anti-competitive practices in selling its products and for abusing its dominant position in the market.

Celebrity bloggers, especially of the Hollywood variety, evoke a lot of skepticism in the lay public. When a famous website like Huffington Post offers concierge services to its busy celebrity bloggers, the question over authenticity also comes into picture.

Apple Inc, failed to find a place in a latest ranking list of top 20 corporate brands in India, though it topped similar surveys in the US and UK.

A global internet body on Monday approved a plan to allow the creation of new website domain suffixes, the biggest change to internet's domain name system in years.

A supercomputer made by Japan tops the latest ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers, pushing China to the second place.

The 2011 MuchMusic Video Awards, MMVA, on Sunday, the biggest music awards in Canada, will be co-hosted by Selena Gomez, the star of Wizards of Waverly Place and current girlfriend of the sensation of the soil, Justin Bieber. The other presenter Is Colin Farrell.

Juneteenth, or June 19 in lay terms, sees celebrations in the form of community events, gatherings and festivities to mark the commemoration of the end of slavery on June 19, 1865 in Texas. It is a sort of an alternative Independence Day as 39 states now formally observe Juneteenth as the end of slavery in America.

Cameron Diaz, Jason Segal and Justin Timberlake talked about hot teachers, being teased in school and films on teachers in an interview with YoungHollywood.com. The movie is set for release on June 24 in the US. Cameron Diaz’s role as a raunchy teacher is the talk of the town.

Colton Harris-Moore, the bare-foot bandit, thief and burglar whose notoriety will be soon seen on celluloid, has pleaded guilty to seven federal felonies and will serve up to six and a half years in prison.

Social networking site Facebook lost a significant number of its users in the US in May, raising fears over the site’s user base reaching saturation levels in the country.

The ongoing sovereign crisis in the eurozone countries has renewed concerns over the fate of the euro, the second largest reserve currency as well as the second most traded currency in the world.

Jean-Claude Juncker, head of eurozone finance ministers, on Saturday cautioned that the debt crisis of Greece and other countries in the region could hit Italy and Belgium.

A recent report from comScore showed that Facebook had reached its all-time high in audience size in the US in May, in contrast to other reports which said the social networking site lost a significant number of users in the month.

The reconciliation plan mooted by the Afghanistan government and the Taliban needs more explanation and has to be further defined, U.S. Senator John Kerry has said.

The Hamaoka nuclear plant, located in the southwest of Tokyo, finally shut down all its reactors for about two years on Saturday to avoid any further mishap in the future due to natural calamities, a report said.

The number of malware that aim the Android mobile operating system has gone up by 400 per cent since summer of last year, according to a report by Juniper Networks.

Pakistani Parliament have urged a ban on Nato transit convoys in Afganistan by cutting off facilities used by them unless the US ends drone attacks.

George Mitchell, the special emissary to the Middle East has decided to resign after two years of effort to achieve peace in the Middle East.

A contract worker, 60, died after a fall at the facility’s waste disposal building, the operator of Japan's tsunami-wrecked nuclear power plant said.

Sixteen payloads have been selected by NASA for flights in the commercial Zero-G parabolic aircraft and two suborbital reusable launch vehicles as part of the Flight Opportunities Program.

Suzanne Mubarak, wife of former President Hosni Mubarak, was hospitalized Friday, hours after she was detained on corruption charges for 15 days.

The Libyan rebels met with U.S. officials at the White House on Friday, but the delegation failed to get recognition as the sole council to take over power.