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In a panel Friday, three startup founders discussed how their companies will challenge the large financial institutions.

David Prend is one of the most respected investors in green technology - but even he picks some losers.

Fernandez trounced her opponents, gaining almost 54 percent of the electorate – her closest challenger, Socialist Hermes Binner polled only 17 percent.

Sixty-two percent of Americans -- including a majority of Democrats and Republicans -- said they would support a constitutional amendment to replace the Electoral College with a popular vote system, according to a recent Gallup poll.

Arizona had claimed that the U.S. abdicated its responsibility in enforcing immigration laws.

Although Ford is leaving Syria, the U.S. embassy in Damascus will remain open. Additionally, the Syrian ambassador to the United States will stay in Washington D.C

Within two hours of the initial tremor, ten more aftershocks hammered the region.

Tensions grow in protests as allegations of financial mismanagement surface.

Mitt Romney may face even more scrutiny for Romneycare.

According to police, about 470 cars in total – including BMWs, Mercedes and Audis - have been burnt this year in Berlin.

“WikiLeaks has published the biggest leaks in journalistic history. This has triggered aggressive retaliation from powerful groups.”

President Barack Obama will unveil new measures to help struggling homeowners on Monday in the first leg of a campaign-style swing through western states that may be crucial to his re-election in 2012.

Swiss banks will likely settle an extensive U.S. probe of offshore tax evasion by paying billions of dollars and handing over names of thousands of Americans who have secret accounts, according to people familiar with the situation.

China urged the European Union on Monday to deal with its debt crisis as soon as possible and prevent contagion from spreading, as the country's number four-ranked leader arrived for a visit of the continent, including Greece.

For Libya, it is a form of liberation and rebirth, following the death of former dictator, Col. Moammar Gadhafi. The new rulers have made a statement, by leaving Gadhafi's body, for the third day, in Misrata. The whole scene looked quite like a carnival, as people lined up to look at the decomposing bodies of Gadhafi, his son and an army chief.

LU anticipates the operational changes will result in savings of nearly £1.8 billion ($2.9 billion).

Following the Earthquake Sunday, Israel offered aid and anything from food, medicine, medical staff and equipment to search-and-rescue teams, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said, according to Reuters.

Consider that higher education isn't the ticket to a guaranteed job like it once was. Consider also that education costs have been rising far above and beyond core economic inflation, making it arguably less valuable. Consider also that student loans are the one debt that Americans can't get out of.

Col. Moammar Gadhafi, the longest-ruling Arab leader in history died on Thursday a humiliating and gory end when he was executed by rebel fighters.

President Barack Obama announced the withdrawal of U.S. troops (by the end of 2011), in the briefing room of the White House, on Oct. 21. He further said that the United States would fulfill its promise of pulling troops out of Iraq.

Muammar Gaddafi's son Saadi is shocked and outraged by the vicious brutality shown towards his father and brother Mo'tassim and said it showed no one connected to the former government would receive a fair trial in Libya, Saadi's lawyer said on Sunday.

At a time when confusions loom over what to do with Libyan ex-leader Moammar Gadhafi's body, a will has emerged on his Web site, Seven Days News, indicating that the autocrat's last will was to be buried in his birthplace Sirte according to Muslim rituals.

Argentina's center-leftist president, Cristina Fernandez, won a landslide re-election victory Sunday as voters credited her unconventional policies for a long economic boom.

President Barack Obama this week will announce a series of actions to help the economy that will not require congressional approval, including an initiative to make it easier for homeowners to refinance their mortgages, a White House official said.

A New Jersey mayor is facing a sex scandal after someone claiming to be a disgruntled male prostitute posted pictures of him sleeping in his underpants to the Internet.

Police made arrests of 130 demonstrators of Occupy Chicago movement for being presented in city's downtown park Park after hours, authorities reported Sunday.

A grenade attack on a bar in the center of Nairobi early Monday wounded 12 people, Kenyan police said, an incident that comes as Nairobi battles al-Qaida-linked militants in neighboring Somalia.

Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain now says he supports a federal constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage across the United States, reversing an earioer position.

Argentina's fiery center-leftist president, Cristina Fernandez, swept to a landslide re-election victory Sunday, crowning a comeback that seemed unthinkable for much of her turbulent first term.