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Here is a compilation of some most outstanding and unforgettable live performances at the Academy Awards through the years. Check them out.

The Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority (MIMRA) has seized over 60,000 lb of shark carcasses and more than 1,500 lb of shark fins from a Japanese fishing vessel.

Anyone looking for more evidence of a strengthening U.S. economic recovery needs only to consider conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, where businesses ranging from railroads and electric utilities to furniture and candy stores are racking up record profits.

World-renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has been spotted on multiple occasions at Freedom Acres, a sex club in Dover, California, according to radaronline.com. That's right, Stephen William Hawking, author of the bestseller A Brief History of Time, frequents a South California sex club where he pays strippers to grind on his body, according to RadarOnline's source.

March 7 is the expected date for iPad 3 to be unveiled by Apple at a press conference in San Francisco. However, the debut date is in danger of getting delayed because Apple is locked in a dispute with Proview, a Chinese firm, over iPad trademark rights, in the U.S.

Gerard Butler, one of Hollywood's hottest hunks, has returned home in good health after completing a successful course of treatment for substance-abuse issue.

Proview Electronics, the firm trying to stop Apple Inc from using the iPad name in China, has a plausible claim over the unusual methods Apple used to conceal its identity when attempting to acquire Proview's trademarks, according to several legal experts.

The Supreme Court will weigh next week whether corporations can be sued in the United States for suspected complicity in human rights abuses abroad, in a case being closely watched by businesses concerned about long and costly litigation.

First, Mitt Romney gaffed in admitting he was not worried about the very poor. Then, he admitted he only paid about a 15 percent tax rate. Now, his ad-libbing in Detroit led him to a flub about his wife Ann's Cadillacs.

If the Best Picture Oscar was chosen by Twitter, Woody Allen would take the trophy home.

Arizona and Florida were ground zero for the housing boom and subsequent crash, but the multifamily sector is finally showing signs of life, with developers again planning new projects.

Researchers have discovered rare fossilized footprints in the Arabian Desert that are revealed to be of the oldest elephant herd.

Terminal One at San Francisco International Airport reopened after an earlier scare when a TSA officer spotted a suspicious package.

Proview Technology, the bankrupt electronics maker that uses the iPad name on several of its products such as computer monitors, has reportedly brought its lawsuit against Apple to the U.S. Will this jeopardize the release of the iPad 3?

Former New York City Mayor and 2008 Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani said in a television interview Thursday that the Republican Party's stances on some social issues, gay rights in particular, make it look like it isn't a modern party.

Apple has acquired Chomp, an app search and discovery platform, in order to revamp the iTunes and App Store search and discovery tools. There's a good chance that the new version of iTunes will release alongside the new iPad 3.

Shares of Apple rose more than $6 Friday to $522.41 despite a lawsuit by a Chinese company alleging it had used “false statements” to obtain rights to the name iPad.

Three diet drug makers will be looking for a second review from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in an effort to get approval for their weight-loss pills.

The prestigious California-based Pacific Institute climate research group has launched an investigation of its president and founder, Peter Gleick, after he admitted fraudulently obtaining documents from global warming skeptics challenging his work.

A Chinese firm trying to stop Apple Inc from using the iPad name in China has launched an attack on the consumer electronics giant's home turf, filing a lawsuit in California that accuses it of employing deception when it bought the trademark.

California law enforcement officers can continue collecting DNA samples from adults arrested for felonies, a federal appeals court ruled.