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North Korea has informed its most significant ally, China, that it plans up to two more tests this year. Beijing may find this the last straw.

Samsung's Galaxy S4 may be months away from its release date, but new rumors hint that the company will launch its next flagship for Verizon.

The meteor that rained down on central Russia and injured upwards of 1,000 people was not a celestial object at all, but a U.S. weapons test, claimed Russian lawmaker Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

The automated messages claim that, despite the country's abortion ban, Irish doctors will intervene to save the life of a pregnant woman. But a leaked hospital investigation into Halappanavar's death suggests otherwise.

Anonymous planned a special attack on Goldman Sachs for Valentine's Day, but what was its real goal?

Global growth will still be fairly weak this year, but there’s no denying that industrial conditions have recently improved.

Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly announced on-air she is pregnant with her third child.

A Sumatran tiger gave birth to an apparently healthy cub at the San Francisco Zoo over the weekend in a rare boost to the critically endangered subspecies.

Police in Papua New Guinea have arrested 100 people for last week's witch burning and rescued two more women.

A woman has died of the H5N1 avian flu in China, but there's a worrying twist: She had not been in contact with birds.

Is Malia Obama dating? Political observers are parsing President Obama’s words.

The Dow has vectored toward 14,000, but investors in U.S. stocks would be wise to keep one eye on Washington and one on the price of oil.

Marijuana is now legal for medical treatment in the Czech Republic after Czech President Vaclav Klause signed the measure into law on Friday.

Herbalife Ltd, Delta Air Lines, Zynga, Kinross Gold, Research In Motion, Transocean, Kosmos Energy and France Telecom SA are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Friday.

Here's your handy earnings-report watchlist for this week.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a lower open Friday ahead of the Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization report.

Activities around the new launch pad suggest the possible assistance from Iran, according to a U.S.-based research institute.

Airbus said Thursday night it is dropping lithium-ion batteries from its new A350 airplane after possible defects forced the grounding of Boeing’s 787.

Police in Myanmar used white phosphorous grenades to disperse civilians protesting outside a controversial copper mine in November, a group of U.S. and Burmese lawyers claim in a new report.

The Pirate Bay is suing an Finnish anti-piracy site for trademark infringement, a knowingly ironic move that comes after The Pirate Bay has for years been the prime target of organizations who say the site facilitates illegal media downloading.

U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., announced Thursday that at age 89, this will be his last term. He will not seek re-election in 2014, leaving the seat open for a battle among ambitious Newark Mayor Cory Booker and other New Jersey politicians.