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Qassem Aqlani, a 20-year U.S. Embassy veteran, was shot in a drive-by motorcycle shooting by a masked gunman.

Despite high hopes for Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Windows 8, three new reports show a gloomy financial forecast for the personal computer.

Ryan hits the books for the last time before tonight's VP debate against Biden; Ann Romney campaigns for husband Mitt.

Shares of Sprint-Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) soared on Softbank takeover reports. Here's why they'd make a deal.

Free live streams of the debate, which kicks off at 9 p.m. EDT at Centre College in Danville, Ky., are offered on nearly a dozen websites.

If you think Americans don’t take trains, think again. According to Amtrak, ridership is up a whopping 49 percent since 2000.

Wells Fargo and Co. (NYSE: WFC) may get a substantial boost from the housing recovery.

Search giant Google has turned its Street View coverage more comprehensive than before with the launch of its biggest ever update that doubled special collections and updated over 250,000 miles of roads around the world.

The Labor Dept. said the number of Americans lining up for new jobless benefits fell sharply in the last week to their lowest level since February 2008.

Hindi and English have enjoyed an incestuous relationship ever since the British first landed in India.

Australia is losing jobs to other countries, and the reason may be surprising: China isn't growing as fast as it used to.

Apple has secured the patent for the third version of slide-to-unlock patent, with patent number 8,286, 103 issued Wednesday, The Verge has reported.

Asian stock markets declined Thursday as weak machine orders data from Japan and the Spanish debt downgrade by Standard & Poor’s weighed on the sentiment.

The U.S. stock index futures point to a slightly higher open Thursday ahead of the Labor Department's weekly jobless claims data and the Bureau of Economic Analysis's trade deficit report.

The worldwide PC market experienced sharp decline in the third quarter of 2012 with shipments totaling 87.5 million units during the period, a drop of 8.3 percent compared with the third quarter of 2011, according to latest data from Gartner.

President Barack Obama promised a better debate performance when he faces Mitt Romney again next week, in an interview with ABC News' Diane Sawyer Wednesday night.

Asian shares tracked Wall Street lower Thursday as weak forecasts from U.S. corporate bellwethers underscored concern over global demand.

Fans of the popular BitTorrent site the Pirate Bay had reason to be concerned when two of the site’s most visible employees failed to show up for a scheduled appearance in Malaysia.

It’s no secret that Wall Streeters make a lot more than the average New Yorker. This chart shows that things are likely to stay that way.

Chevron says it still won't cough up the $19 billion demanded by plaintiffs in an Ecuadorean court case involving decades of pollution in the Amazon rainforest.

Health officials in Pakistan’s largest city are investigating the details of a “brain-eating” amoeba that’s killed ten people over a four month span.