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Rebels on the eastern front of Libya's civil war lost 11 men in the past 24 hours fighting to capture the strategic oil terminal and refinery at Brega on the Mediterranean coast, hospital sources said.

Record-low borrowing costs in Great Britain are partly behind a small but scrappy real estate boom.

The number of arrests has reached more than 1,900 and about half have been charged, most of them in London.

A new rumor has the iPhone 5 being released on September 7.

U.S. companies are pouring their cash stockpiles into buying back their own shares, betting on a Wall Street rebound rather than investing in new operations or bumping up dividends.

Companies are pouring their cash stockpiles into buying back their own shares, betting on a Wall Street rebound rather than investing in new operations or bumping up dividends.

The New York police name the head of new social media unit.

European fund managers led a chorus of criticism of a two-week short-selling ban slapped on four euro zone stock markets on Friday, with restrictions seen more likely to nurture erratic trading than eliminate it.

Courts around Britain were struggling on Thursday to cope with a huge influx of people arrested during this week's riots, including a millionaire's daughter, a charity worker and a woman who handed herself in after suffering pangs of guilt.

Rollercoaster financial markets and the worst riots Britain has seen in decades have made it quite a week for a time of year that is usually so dead the newspapers are filled with "silly season" tales of amusing pet antics.

Researchers at a leading European business school are blasting financial regulators in France, Belgium, Italy and Spain for imposing or extending short-selling bans in the wake of renewed market volatility.

Bratton was credited with reducing crime in Los Angeles following the devastating riots of April 1992.

August's Perseid meteor shower has historically been providing the best opportunity for enthusiasts to catch meteor shows, but this year the Internet will let casual observers enjoy the show live online.

There is one thing that the doomsayers have gotten wrong: They aren?t nearly worried enough.

Middle-aged to older women who suffer from depression and are taking antidepressants were found to be associated with a 29 percent higher risk of having a stroke, according to Harvard researchers.

The ruling African National Congress estimated that the initial costs to establish the health care program at 128 billion rand ($18 billion).

Much of the violence has occurred in inner-city neighborhoods populated by the descendants of immigrants from the former British Empire

After hundreds of arrests this week, England and Wales now have 85,324 prison inmates, fewer than 2,000 below capacity.

He suffered head injuries in a brutal attack on Monday evening and was left in a coma.

As London youths rampaged through districts of the UK capital for three nights, British people copied the looters? tactics on Wednesday by starting to clean up shopping streets littered with debris from a night of looting.

Thousands of Chinese took to the streets of a southwestern town on Thursday, with some smashing police vehicles in the latest protest by citizens angered by the rough handling of local officials, according to news reports.