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Luxury goods maker Pierre Cardin took a plunge into the tablet landscape with a 7-inch Android tablet under the moniker PC-7006.

A look at the upcoming Grand Slam tennis tournament.

Marvel Comics on Wednesday unveiled a new Spider-Man for the Obama-age -- a half-black, half-Latino nerd named Miles Morales.

When Charles Berry started his career as a bonds trader in 1993, he used to draw "point and figure" charts on pieces of paper. He checked his old charts recently to remind himself how calm markets were in those days. Back then, it took three months for a price to move 200 ticks -- the measure traders use to show changes in futures or currency markets. Now the market moves 400 ticks in a week.

British actor Rowan Atkinson, best known for his Mr. Bean character, crashed his supercar Thursday night, but suffered only a minor shoulder injury, according to media reports.

When Charles Berry started his career as a bonds trader in 1993, he used to draw point and figure charts on pieces of paper. He checked his old charts recently to remind himself how calm markets were in those days. Back then, it took three months for a price to move 200 ticks -- the measure traders use to show changes in futures or currency markets. Now the market moves 400 ticks in a week.

Overseas stocks are plunging following the devastating sell-off in the U.S. Thursday, ahead of a crucial July jobs report out of Washington.

British actor Rowan Atkinson, who got international fame as ?Mr. Bean?, was injured in a car crash on Thursday.

Britain and the United States poke fun at incompetent, arrogant middle managers in the television comedy "The Office," but in Afghanistan the target is a fictional minister of garbage in a new series called "The Ministry."

"My Week with Marilyn," starring Oscar-nominated actress Michelle Williams as 1950s sex symbol Marilyn Monroe, will see its world premiere at the New York Film Festival in October, organizers said on Thursday.

Former Beatle Paul McCartney said on Thursday that he appears to be a victim of the newspaper phone hacking scandal in Britain and will be talking to police when he finishes a U.S. tour.

British lawmakers called on Thursday for CNN talk show host and former tabloid editor Piers Morgan to return to his native Britain to answer questions about phone-hacking after allegations made by the ex-wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney.

?The damage this week is more than last week ? translation, more damage from economic fears than debt fears.?

Kelly Osbourne appeared on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" Wednesday with words for Kate Middleton regarding the praise the Duchess of Cambridge is receiving for recycling her clothes.

U.S. stocks plummeted Thursday, following a similarly huge sell-off in Europe, on growing fears that the global economy is sinking into a recession, ahead of worries about tomorrow?s July jobs report.

Nokia Siemens Networks will cut as many as 1,500 jobs from assets acquired from Motorola, a spokesman announced on Thursday.

Kelly Osbourne dished on Christina Aguilera calling her fat, while lamenting that Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, is no style queen, recycling many of her outfits.

Days earlier, Osbourne called Christina Aguilera a 'fat b**ch'

Nokia Siemens Networks has begun cutting 1,500 jobs from the 6,900 staff it acquired with its $1.2 billion acquisition of Motorola's telecoms network unit in April, a spokesman said on Thursday.

The U.S. sell-off follows even greater declines in Europe.

Kraft Foods Inc Chief Executive Irene Rosenfeld is breaking up the food giant, just 18 months after driving through the controversial acquisition of UK chocolate maker Cadbury.