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Millions of BlackBerry users around the world were left without text communication services for a third day on Wednesday as Research in Motion struggled to fix what it said was a switching failure in its private network.

Stock index futures pointed to a slightly lower open on Wall Street on Wednesday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.26 percent, Dow Jones futures down 0.14 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 0.22 percent at 0740 GMT.

RIM said it had resolved its Blackberry outage late Monday, but Tuesday morning, millions of subscribers woke up to find service still disrupted. With problems like RIM's not happening with Apple's iPhone or Google's Android devices, it seems as if the Blackberry's popularity continues to plummet to the point where it will become close to completely stifled by its competition.

The semifinals of the 2011 Rugby World Cup are set - and it features the same four teams as the inaugural version.

World number one Novak Djokovic will miss the Shanghai Masters this week, following his withdrawal from the China Open last week, after aggravating his back injury in the recently concluded Davis Cup.

New Zealand stepped one step closer to a World Cup victory at home after crushing Argentina in the quarterfinals at Eden Park in Auckland.

Defending champions South Africa were knocked out of the Rugby World Cup 2011 after Australia came out top in the quarterfinals at Wellington.

Two weeks into the Occupy Wall Street protests, one of America’s most respected polling firms released an astonishing survey on economic divisions showing that a majority of Americans don’t think their society is divided between haves and have-nots.

Top seed Rafa Nadal had to dig deep after coming under heavy fire from Colombia's Santiago Giraldo in a brutal 7-6 6-3 quarter-final victory at the Japan Open on Friday.

Just as the Ranger rides into the sunset in the United States, the importance of Ford Motor Co's compact pickup truck is rising in the rest of the world.

Top seed Rafa Nadal ran hard-serving Canadian Milos Raonic ragged in a 7-5 6-3 victory to secure a place in the quarter-finals of the Japan Open on Thursday.

Former Big Brother contestant gets completely naked on Bailando por un Sueño, Argentina's version of Dancing With the Stars

Fans have taken to twitter to urge Justin Bieber to stay out of Peru after death threats popped up on Facebook.

Justin Bieber began his My World South America Tour in Mexico where he serenaded a hysterical crying fan who was unable to get tickets to his show.

U.S. carmaker Ford is confident sales growth in Russia will hold up amid tough economic conditions and that the government will support Western involvement in the industry long after upcoming elections, its new Russia chief said on Saturday.

A look at the friendly match in Belem.

European insurers Allianz and AXA SA are among the potential bidders for HSBC Holdings Plc's sale of its general insurance business, which could fetch more than $1 billion, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

For the first time, a map of the salinity of the ocean surface, which is a key component of the earth's surface, has been produced by NASA's new Aquarius instrument. This has provided an early glimpse of the mission's anticipated discoveries.

Leila Lopes, the Angolan beauty who was crowned Miss Universe 2011 just a week ago has become a subject of malicious allegations which could strip her of the coveted title.

With their third pool B game against Romania nearing, England have a mounting injury list and will hope no more players join the sick bay.

Rafa Nadal proved he had put his exertions at the U.S. Open firmly behind him when he thrashed France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-0 6-2 6-4 to put Spain through to the Davis Cup final on Sunday.