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Crude oil prices declined and hovered below $97 a barrel during the Asian trading hours Wednesday.

Wells Fargo has emerged from the collapse of the U.S. housing bubble as the nation’s dominant mortgage lender, grabbing an unprecedented 28.8 percent share

Anonymous claims it has breached a North Korean site, stealing 15,000 passwords.

As the situation in the Korean peninsula continues to deteriorate, China has begun preparing its military as well.

North Korea's Soviet-era Yongbyong power plant produced weapons-grade plutonium. Now the Communist state plans to restart it.

A new survey finds that Pakistani youth are cynical and conservative; they would prefer military rule or Shariah law over democracy.

The General Assembly passed a treaty Tuesday aimed at keeping weapons from conflict zones and those who commit war crimes or genocide.

The Associated Press has removed the term "illegal immigrant" from its AP Stylebook. The New York Times, meanwhile, is "reconsidering" the term.

Nature tends to abhor keeping it in the family, and with good reason.

The new BlackBerry 10 operating system in the BlackBerry Z10 has some sharing features that private users may want to toggle ‘off.’

A judge ruled on Monday to reject a counter-suit by Facebook, allowing Timelines Inc. to proceed with a trademark lawsuit.

If Argentina's creditors accept law bonds, they could sidestep U.S. court.

The EPA has conditionally approved thousands of under-tested pesticides, including clothianidin which has been linked to mass bee deaths, or colony collapse disorder.

Americans shrugged off the Washington political circus and continued to boost auto sales to levels unseen since before the last recession.

As the world runs from one man-caused crisis to another, something in our up-is-the-new-down world has to give.

Here is HTC One release information for AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Radio Shack.

The database, unveiled Thursday, shows Bank of America easily trumping Wells Fargo, which had more than 12,000 complaints against it.

France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK are taking action versus Google over its controversial unified privacy policy.

After weeks of criticism from Chinese media/consumers for being arrogant, Apple CEO Tim Cook apologized to China.

Several "Real Housewives" cast members say they don't believe Adrienne Maloof's claims about her ex-husband, Paul Nassif.

The world's richest man, Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim, is costing his country billions with his monopoly in the industry, officials say.