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U.S. grain and soybean futures rose over 1 percent on Monday in a broad commodities rally as investors bet that European leaders would reach a deal to tackle a euro-zone debt crisis and took heart from an improved manufacturing indicator in China.

In its opening weekend, Paranormal Activity 3 shatters the fall box-office record, while other films under performed.

Diversified, industrial giant General Electric (GE) continues to show impressive order growth in emerging markets -- and that bodes well for the global economy in 2012 and for GE's stock.

NASA has released a series of new satellite data visualizations that show tens of millions of fires detected worldwide from space since 2002.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is set for a Nov. 8 release.

The third installment of the horror film franchise, Paranormal Activity 3, scored the highest domestic box office opening since July, grossing a whopping $26.2 million on Friday, its opening day.

Almost 60 years after the end of the Korean War, the U.S. and North Korea have reached an agreement to resume searching for the bodies of American soldiers who died during that war.

General Electric Co reported earnings that met Wall Street expectations, but its shares slipped 1.4 percent as investors worried about declining profit margins at its energy equipment division.

Libya's National Oil Corporation has summoned Russia's Gazprom to a meeting in Tripoli to discuss what the Libyans said was a breach of investment obligations -- the first sign the new leaders are prepared to renegotiate Gaddafi-era contracts.

Experts speculate that the country, with ithe biggest reserves in Africa, can return to normal production by the second quarter of next year.

Kaspersky Lab has found the first known instance of QR code tampering. Infected QR codes may be used for hacking and phishing scams.

Although the former dictator's rule has come to an unceremonious end, his physical remains present a complicated situation, echoing the deaths of previous dictators and leaders

An estimated 2,000 sharks have been slaughtered in waters off Malpelo Island, located near Colombia's Pacific coast, according to Colombian environmental authorities.

Overthrown Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi was captured in the battle of Sirte and died in rebel control, the National Transitional Council said Thursday. The news hasn't been confirmed by independent sources, but if it were true, it would make Sirte the place of Gadhafi's birth and his death.

Pakistan hopes to win a seat on the U.N. Security Council as a temporary member alongside archrival India when the United Nations holds annual elections to the 15-nation body on Friday.

Such a union, Putin indicated, would be designed to help member states in coordinating currency and economic policies.

The United States is still crafting a legal framework to guide any offensive moves in cyberspace, months after the Pentagon unveiled a broad cyber strategy, the head of the military command responsible for such operations said on Tuesday.

Human activity in melting regions.

Working around Russian import bans, U.S. cowboys ship live steers

Mining companies would be banned from investing in Eritrea's potentially booming minerals sector under a draft U.N. resolution that Security Council members are due to start negotiating on Tuesday.

Kazakhstan, the second-largest ex-Soviet economy and oil producer after Russia, has enough reserves to weather a new wave of financial crisis and keep its currency stable, the National Bank governor told Reuters Insider TV.