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Current and former BP executives and directors won dismissal on Thursday of one of several U.S.-shareholder lawsuits filed over last year's Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Research In Motion's BlackBerry Messenger service was disrupted by an apparent service outage on Friday, adding a further headache as the company reels from a dismal earnings report.

Whether you call them a restroom, loo, lavatory, toilet, or the facilities, they are always an important part of being on the go. With this in mind the members and editors of travel website VirtualTourist.com (www.virtualtourist.com) have compiled this list of the World's Top 10 Toilets.

Photos of the final phase of the Libyan revolution

Kweku Adoboli has been charged with fraud and false accounting by London police in connection with unauthorized trades at UBS that caused the bank a $2 billion loss. Adoboli has also reportedly admitted to the bank he caused the losses. His father, a retired United Nations employee living in Ghana, said his son made a mistake.

Former Beatle Paul McCartney posted wedding banns this week at Westminster Register Office in Marylebone, central London.

Research In Motion is losing market share much faster than expected to rivals Apple and Google, amid mounting concerns over its cash flow and ability to meet its outlook, analysts warned on Friday.

The miners became trapped almost 300 feet underground when a tunnel collapsed and flooded the Gleision Colliery near Pontardawe on Thursday morning.

Researchers say breast and cervical cancers are rising at an alarming rate and the number of new breast cancer cases has increased from about 641,000 cases in 1980 to 1.6 million cases in 2010.

Arrested at his UBS trading desk, rogue trader Kweku Adoboli allegedly told the bank about his unauthorized trading that resulted in a nearly $2 billion loss.

Research In Motion is losing market share much faster than expected to rivals Apple and Google, amid mounting concerns over its cash flow and ability to meet its outlook, analysts warned on Friday.

Air France-KLM has split a $12 billion order for long-range jets following a year-long competition, announcing plans to buy 25 Boeing 787 Dreamliners and 25 Airbus A350s.

UK’s royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton has set a world record of the most watched online event ever, according to the latest edition of the Guinness Book of World Records.

Europe and the United States could face 10 years of slow growth and high unemployment if a global solution for the euro zone debt crisis is not implemented soon, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Friday.

Research In Motion is losing market share much faster than expected, warned analysts on Friday, a day after the BlackBerry maker gave a weak outlook in further proof that the company was not gaining ground on rivals Apple Inc and Google Inc.

Air France-KLM split a $12 billion deal to buy long-range jets between rival manufacturers, announcing firm orders on Friday for 25 Boeing 787 Dreamliners and 25 Airbus A350s.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner pressed euro zone ministers on Friday to leverage their 440 billion euro bailout fund and free up more resources to tackle a two-year-old debt crisis, a senior euro zone official said.

World shares rose half a percent to one-week highs on Friday while the euro clung to gains from the previous session on hopes that European policymakers would finally come up with a bold plan to combat a deepening debt crisis.

Miss Angola, Leila Lopes, made history after she became the new Miss Universe. Leila is the first Miss Universe from her country in 60 years.

Breast and cervical cancers kill 625,000 women worldwide every year, reported researchers in the first global review of breast and cervical cancer.

BlackBerry said on Thursday it would work with mobile operators to switch off its popular messenger service if they were ordered by authorities to do so during civil unrest, after police singled out the system as a key tool used in last month's riots.