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British boy band One Direction has gone from obscurity to playing Madison Square Garden in over a year. The tickets will be flying fast, but use this link around 5 p.m. Friday to get your shot to see Niall, Liam, Zayne, Harry and Louis at Madison Square Garden Dec. 3. A lot of refreshing may be necessary due to high demand.

Amazon.com Inc is trying to grab some of the billions of advertising dollars spent each year by consumer packaged goods companies including Kimberly-Clark Corp, as the world's largest Internet retailer seeks new sources of revenue growth.

Shell is moving closer to the date when it can start drilling for oil in Arctic waters off Alaska. The company may soon get the Department of the Interior's approval and could begin operations by year's end.

The 37-year-old former front man has been in an LA hospital since Thursday.

Thein Sein, whose military regime has had the democracy activist under house arrest for almost two decades, said the weekend balloting had been conducted in a very successful manner.

Saudi Arabia is likely to maintain high oil production in the event consumer countries release emergency stocks, but it will not seek to lure buyers for more oil by discounting its crude, industry sources said.

Sunday's historic elections in Myanmar and the planned North Korean missile launch dominated the agenda at the annual Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or Asean, summit in Cambodia on Tuesday.

She yearned for what she describes as a “lost nation.”

Syrian opposition groups have declared Rifaat should be also be subjected to western sanctions since he committed crimes during his reign in Syria.

As Prince William and Kate Middleton will celebrate their first wedding anniversary on April 29, 2012, here’s a look back at some of the best, stolen moments of the royal couple.

Banking and keeping track of finances, shopping and searching for jobs are the main tasks of Internet users around the globe, according to a new international survey.

Britain must sell its Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds stakes as soon as possible because keeping them is allowing politicians to gamble with people's money on bank shares, according to a lobby group representing taxpayers.

LONDON, APRIL 3 - Whitbread PLC said on Tuesday that Chris Rogers, currently group finance director, would take over as chief executive of its rapidly expanding coffee shop chain Costa Coffee in August, with a remit to drive international growth.

Wii U, the next addition to the long-running line of Nintendo consoles, will be available on Nov. 18th according to Wii U Daily. A Japanese retailer emailed the website revealing the launch date, which almost directly matches up to its predecessor’s Nov. 19th release in 2006.

In an effort to keep Russia-Chechnya conflicts from erupting on British soil, U.K. intelligence is pushing for the deportation of a Chechen man who was allegedly planning to assassinate Akhmed Zakayev, a political rival of Chechnya's President Ramzan Kadyrov.

Watch video highlights of Blackburn Rovers Vs. Manchester United in the Barclays Premier League.

Kentucky and Kansas face off in New Orleans in the National Championship Game.

A whole host of release date rumors surround the highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S3 phone, but the device is not expected to launch until the majority of Galaxy S2 phones receive their Android Ice Cream Sandwich update, according to the Pop Herald.

Andy Fields, a businessman in England, claims he found Pop Art sketch drawn by a young Andy Warhol at a garage sale and purchased it for $5. Fields purchased the sketch in 2010 in Las Vegas for $5 from a man who claims his aunt cared for Warhol as a child. The drawing of Rudy Vallee in Pop Art style is signed by Warhol and dates back to the 1930's, when the infamous pop artist was just 10 or 11-years-old and is worth more than $2 million today.

The chief of the junta in Mali had promised to restore civilian rule and call new elections, but has so far not done so.

PepsiCo Inc. (NYSE:PEP), the world's second-largest food and beverage company, claimed the No.784 spot on the IBTimes 1000 list by expanding aggressively in emerging markets and catering to consumers' demand for healthier food and beverages.