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Switzerland's Adecco , the world's largest staffing company, said on Tuesday it would acquire U.S. rival MPS Group Inc for $1.3 billion in a cash transaction.

Rod Stewart brings a splash of color to the staid surroundings of the Beverly Hills Hotel. He's wearing a blue striped shirt, a white business suit jacket with thick red trim and blue Converse slip-ons -- a look that combines nautical and vaudeville, which seems perfectly fitting for Stewart, the perpetual showman.

Jaclyn Elisse Torrealba, a freshman at Florida International University was murdered Sunday by her 30-year old boyfriend Juan Carlos Portieles following a verbal altercation, police said, according to CBS News.

Within weeks of taking office, U.S. President Barack Obama rode to the rescue of homeowners resigned to financial ruin.

On the surface, a glimmer of confidence is returning to the battered U.S. housing market, after more than three years of gut-wrenching defaults, price slumps and foreclosures.

Home buyers in much of the United States paid thousands of dollars below the asking price, but had slightly less negotiating power in August than in July, real estate website Zillow.com said on Thursday.

Every 13 seconds in America, there is another foreclosure filing.

Home buyers in much of the United States paid thousands of dollars below the asking price, but had slightly less negotiating power in August than in July, real estate website Zillow.com said on Thursday.

Every 13 seconds in America, there is another foreclosure filing. That's the rhythm of a crisis that threatens to choke off hopes for a recovery in the U.S. housing market as it destroys hundreds of billions of dollars in property values a year.

A U.S. trade panel that hears patent disputes said it would investigate allegations that Toyota Motor Corp, the world's largest automaker, infringed patented technology to make its popular hybrid vehicles.

A U.S. trade panel that hears patent disputes said it would investigate allegations that Toyota Motor Corp infringed patented technology owned by Paice LLC to make hybrid cars.

Police have one person in custody following a report of a possible gunman on the University of South Florida campus.

A U.S. and Canada tour by Kanye West and Lady Gaga has been canceled with no reason given just weeks after the rap star came under public fire for humiliating country star Taylor Swift at an awards ceremony.

U.S. stocks dipped more than 1 percent on Thursday after the latest jobs and manufacturing data sparked worries about the pace of economic recovery, with technology shares leading losses.

Actor John Travolta testified in a Bahamian extortion trial on Wednesday that he was told that unless he paid $25 million, stories would be sold to the news media implying his son's death was intentional and he was to blame.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded an $81 million contract to a Florida company to build a road bridge that will help restore fresh water flows in Everglades National Park, nourishing its ecosystem.

As the lone surviving founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd still in the band, guitarist Gary Rossington says he's profoundly moved by the release of God & Guns, the Southern rock icons' first set of new material in six years.

This year you're not going to get a more exciting or thought-provoking movie filled with memorable characters and dramatic events than More Than a Game. This film from hitherto unknown documentarian Kristopher Belman is a sports movie only in the sense that Errol Morris' The Fog of War is a war movie.

Fidelity National Financial Inc, which controls one of the largest U.S. title insurers, said it will sell Fidelity National Capital Inc to Winthrop Resources Corp, a unit of TCF Financial Corp, to lower debt

A common, nonmalignant tumor of the breast called ductal carcinoma in-situ or DCIS may need a name change because the word carcinoma scares so many women, a U.S. panel of experts said on Thursday.

The U.S. car market should see a modest recovery in 2010, with sales possibly reaching between 11.5 million and 12 million vehicles, General Motors Co Chief Executive Fritz Henderson said on Thursday.