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Osama Bin Laden's wife, who was in the late Al-Qaeda leader's compound in northern Pakistan on Sunday when U.S. military personnel made a raid, has been identified.

Google's Android platform rose to a dominant position in the smartphone market in the first quarter, research firm Canalys said on Wednesday, increasing its lead over struggling Nokia.

Abbottabad was named after a British army officer named Major James Abbott who founded the city (and the outlying district) in 1853 when British India annexed the vast Punjab region.

Gold sat tight as Silver Prices sank once more in London trade on Wednesday morning, holding above last night's 2-session low of $1528 per ounce while silver dropped to new 3-week lows, flirting with the technical definition of bear market.

Tens of billions of dollars of Chinese investment could flood into the United States in the next decade, creating a multitude of American jobs if officials do not succumb to a political backlash and throw up barriers, according to a report released on Wednesday.

Investors pulled back some of their exposure to equities in April, buying bonds and turning to safe-haven cash amid worries that global economic growth could falter from its rapid pace, Reuters polls showed on Tuesday.

Gold prices hit new all-time Dollar highs at the AM London Fix on Tuesday, but silver traded near a two-week low as world stock markets slipped and commodity prices fell hard.

A day after Osama's death, US President Barak Obama has announced that he will visit Ground Zero in New York to meet the victims of 9/11 terror. Obama marked the anniversary of Sept. 11 at the Pentagon in each of his two years as president until now.

U.S. stocks kicked off May with slim losses, as the energy sector followed the price of oil lower and investors couldn't sustain a morning rally that followed the death of Osama bin Laden.

Pakistan’s security apparatus protected Osama Bin Laden for almost ten years, according to US government documents unearthed by WikiLeaks and first reported by the Daily Telegraph of UK.

Here is a selection of comments from prominent global figures on news of the death of Osama Bin Laden:

U.S. stock index futures advanced on Monday following confirmation that Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed by a U.S.-led operation in Pakistan.

The operation that led to the killing of the world's most-wanted terrorist Osama Bin-Laden was almost nine-month old but surprised many all over the world with its sudden but successful outcome.

The dollar rose from three-year lows, oil fell and world stocks put in gains on Monday after news Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces swept across thinly-traded financial markets.

Crowds in the Libyan capital of Tripoli set fire to the empty British embassy and vandalized the Italian embassy on Sunday, a day after NATO bombed Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi's compound in a suburb of the city.

Central bankers around the world are at different stages when it comes to combating price pressures, but all of them are keeping a close watch on wages for early warning signs of future inflation.

How the 1981 royal wedding was covered by the media

Savitri Devi is largely an unknown (or forgotten) figure from 20th century history; but she is well worth remembering because she lived one of the strangest, most incomprehensible lives that one could imagine.

Ire is mounting the world over after Sony belatedly revealed its online gaming network suffered one of the largest data breaches in history, and has yet to issue a full statement regarding the mater.

Britain's Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, walk together in Buckingham Palace, following their wedding on Friday, in central London April 30, 2011.

Sony Corp's No.2 Kazuo Hirai will brief media on Sunday about a huge security breach of its PlayStation Network, the first time an executive of the Japanese electronics giant will publicly address the case, which could prompt global legal actions.