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Elin Nordegren is reportedly dating Jamie Dingman, a marketing executive in New York and the son a wealthy investor Michael Dingman.

Italy has pledged support -- and Euros -- to the rebels fighting in Libya.

The United States and the European Union slammed China's partial easing of export control of the rare earth minerals on Thursday.

The chorus of voices warning against a US debt ceiling induced default is growing.

In one of the most blatant cyber attacks carried out against the United States by a foreign government, as many as 24,000 Pentagon files were stolen in March, US Deputy Secretary of Defense revealed on Thursday.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned on Thursday that overzealous cuts to government spending in the short term could derail a shaky recovery and said a debt default could wreak financial havoc.

The Pentagon suffered the most significant breach yet of its cyber security system, underscoring fears that secret defense files and networks are vulnerable to cyber attacks and lending a sense of urgency to the institution's push to bolster its cyber security.

Everyday consumer products from canned food containers to baby bottles are full of a potentially lethal chemical known as bisphenol A (BPA) that can lead to numerous health defects, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. said in an op-ed column.

America's defense agency is having trouble defending itself, as the largest-ever cyber attack on the Pentagon lent a sense of urgency to the institution's push to safeguard defense secrets and networks by bolstering cyber security.

China Thursday called on the United States to adopt responsible policies and measures to guarantee the interests of investors -- a communique that highlights the rising concern about a possible U.S. Government default. Meanwhile, modest debt talk progress was noted on Day 5, with bipartisan agreement on at least $1.5 trillion in spending cuts over 10 years.

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned Congress on Thursday that overzealous cuts to government spending in the short term could derail an already fragile recovery and said a U.S. debt default may wreak financial havoc.

The Pentagon suffered the most significant breach yet of its cyber security system, underscoring fears that secret defense files and networks are vulnerable to cyber attacks.

China on Thursday issued a second batch of quotas for exports of rare earths this year -- virtually making up for previous cuts -- after its commerce minister met with his EU counterpart to discuss this and other thorny issues between the two trading partners.

China eased export curbs for rare earths on Thursday, restoring it to near-2010 levels in a bid to appease its trading partners, but the European Union said the measure did not go far enough to address concerns of stable supplies.

The much-speculated July 14 launch of Mac OS X Lion turned out to be a non-event.Though Lion didn't roar as of yet, its snoring may not last so long anyway - the next rumors in line suggest Lion's launch as early as tomorrow, or all the way pushed back to July 26th.

Stocks were little changed on Thursday as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke delivered congressional testimony for the second day and worries about hitting the U.S. debt ceiling dogged investors.

A new rumor circulating the web sphere says that Apple will be launching the next generation of iPhone, the iPhone 5, on both T-Mobile and Sprint networks.

According to one report, consumers will have to wait one more day for the Mac OS X Lion

For two years, academic experts from the United States and China have quietly held talks on cyber-security, straining to establish rules of the road in a realm that has proven a persistent irritant between the world's two largest economies.

George Clooney's watchdog group has discovered evidence of ethnic murders in Sudan.

Wall Street stocks rose on Thursday as higher profit from JPMorgan offset concern after Moody's threatened to downgrade the United States' top credit rating if the federal borrowing limit is not raised.