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Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social networking site, and NBC will announce deal to collaborate on Olympics coverage, starting July 27, the New York Times reported.

After a two year battle attracting animal activists from all over the world by his owner Carolina Barnes, a seven-year-old dog named Lennox was put to sleep on Wednesday having been deemed as a threat to public safety by the Belfast city council despite an online petition to save the dog. View the slideshow to see photos of Lennox.

In long forgotten days, before most bank profits came from risky speculation and taxpayer bailouts and those institutions still lived or died by their ability to attract depositors, customers who opened new checking accounts were often given toasters as tokens of appreciation.

Crude oil prices advanced slightly in Asian trading Wednesday, after plunging in the previous session.

Rashard Lewis is expected to sign with the Miami Heat just four days after his former teammate Ray Allen committed to joining the defending NBA champions.

In another triumph of digital medial over legacy media, Buzzmedia said Tuesday that it would buy Spin Media LLC, the 27-year-old music magazine that chronicled the rise of alternative rock in the 1990s.

Usher's stepson from his estranged wife,Tameka Foster, was allegedly pronounced brain-dead after he was involved in a watercraft accident on Friday.

It's common knowledge that parking in New York is a miserable experience. Finding spots can be frustrating, parking is expensive, street-side parking notices are inscrutable and you have to move your car often.

Tonee Walker, the 22-year-old Buxom Bandit who held up a gas station in Australia, has turned herself in to police. Walker gained the Buxom Bandit nickname by taking down the gas station while wearing a low-cut top and showing off her larger-than-life breasts.

Should the Magic Trade Dwight Howard for the current package the Nets are offering?

The New Orleans Saints 2012 NFL season will be getting off to a running start - literally. The Sept. 8 matchup between the Saints and the Washington Redskins will be preceded by the Ochsner Back To Football 5K, a 5K race to benefit the 2013 New Orleans Super Bowl XLVII Host Committee.

Some members of a Miami school board said Michelle Obama, who is looking to recruit volunteers Tuesday, isn't supposed to use a school for political gain.

A recently ordained Chinese bishop has been detained after he resigned from his post at the government-run Catholic Patriotic Association, which oversees the state-sanctioned Catholic church in China.

The New York Knicks are entering a new era, having lost and added some key pieces just a few weeks after winning their first playoff game in more than a decade.

The highly anticipated film version of Fifty Shades of Grey now has two notable producers attached.

Pioneering hip-hop group Run-D.M.C. is reuniting after 10 years, choosing Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest to host their reunion in November. The surviving members of the group, Rev. Run and Darryl D.M.C. McDaniels, will headline the Texas festival, which runs from Nov. 2 to Nov. 4.

One major consequence of finding the Higgs boson? Stephen Hawking loses another bet.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York may have known as early as August 2007 that the setting of global benchmark interest rates was flawed. Following an inquiry with British banking group Barclays Plc (NYSE: BSC) in the spring of 2008, it shared proposals for reform of the system with British authorities.

Kris Humphries just cannot stay out of the headlines. The free agent forward has followed up his high profile marriage and divorce with a career year, being bestowed with the ignominious honor as the 'Most Disliked Player In The NBA' and on Monday, he has emerged as the final obstruction to the blockbuster trade of the year.

General Growth Properties (NYSE: GGP), the second-largest public U.S. mall landlord, is living up to its name once again. After exiting bankruptcy in 2010, the Chicago-based company's shares hit a new all-time high of $18.49 on Friday.

The Beatles and Rolling Stones were inadvertently stepping into a vacuum ? the biggest rock star in the world, Elvis Presley, was inducted into the army in 1962.