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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.

There aren't many reality TV shows that stage their own world premiere.

The royal wedding of Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton this spring was one for the history books -- and the record books, too.

Intel, the world’s biggest chipmaker, introduced new low-power and multi-core chips specifically designed for cloud computing applications. Some could have as many as 50 core processor.

Nicolas Sarkozy and David Cameron landed in Libya to a heroes' welcome on Wednesday, promising help for the new rulers that French and British air power helped to install and being told the favour may be repaid in business contracts.

Colleagues at UBS called Kweku Adoboli, the trader arrested in connected with a $2 billion loss due to unauthorized trading at the bank, up and coming and someone who worked hard...played quite hard too. Adoboli, 31, was arrested on Thursday by London police on suspicion of fraud by abuse of position and being held in custody at Bishopsgate police station. A graduate of Nottingham University who was born in Ghana, Adoboli studied computer science in college and went to work at UB...

Prince Harry turns 27 Thursday, but the Royal ginger won't be partying it up too hard. Instead, he'll be working.

At the Toronto International Film Festival Wednesday, IFC Films acquired North American and Latin American rights to Lynn Shelton's Your Sister's Sister.

Gadhafi told the world that his four-year-old girl died during the Regan-era bombing raids on Libya in 1986. But is she alive, living in Tripoli as a doctor?

The new loan offers will be conducted in October, November and December.

Adobe Flash has finally come to Apple Inc.'s iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, not directly supported but just that the new app tools will be able to export Flash content as an HTML5-supporting format.

Kweku Adoboli, the 31-year-old London man accused as the rogue trader who cost Swiss banking giant UBS an estimated loss of $2 billion, is a "well-dressed quiet man" of African origin who wasn't the "tidiest" but is very "well spoken," according to a former landlord.

The Scandinavian country of Denmark is staging a fascinating general election in which the nation’s faltering economy is expected to serve as the principal issue facing voters.

Breast cancer is rising at an alarming rate as reported by researchers in the first global review of breast and cervical cancer.

The two politicians had strong words for Moammar Gadhafi, wherever he is hiding, saying that is it time to give up.

UBS has 65,000 employees. The Swiss bank has global operations, serving approximately 50 countries. The company has been around for nearly 150 years. But one rogue trader -- reportedly a 31-year-old living and working in London -- has apparently brought the company to its knees in embarrassment and financial loss.