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There's some good news for all modders out there as Samsung has released the source code for its coveted smartphone, Galaxy Note 2.

The largest health insurer in the U.S. announces 90 percent purchase of Amil Participações SA in Latin America's largest insurance market.

The two companies, which provide equipment to most of the world's telecom companies, should be blocked from merging and acquiring U.S. firms, a report concluded.

Asian stock markets declined Monday despite the better-than-expected U.S. jobs data as concerns over the global economic growth and corporate earnings outlook weighed on the sentiment.

Asian markets fell Monday as investors remained watchful having concerns about the revival of the global economic growth in spite of the stimulus measures announced last month by policy maker in the U.S. and Europe.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez won the presidential elections Sunday with a comfortable margin beating his young challenger Henrique Capriles and extending his 14 years of rule to another six-year term.

The 2012 U.S. presidential race roughly one month before Election Day remains where it was on Memorial Day: advantage Obama.

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney appears to have stolen lead from Democratic President Barack Obama at this point, Rasmussen reports.

Jon Hubbard claims his controversial racial comments were taken out of context by "liberals" who offer no solutions to Arkansas' problems.

T-Mobile USA stores has taken the first shipment of nano-SIM cards capable of working on unlocked iPhone 5 handsets, TmoNews, T-Mobile blog has reported.

Amazon.com Inc announced Friday that it will buy its Seattle corporate headquarters for over $1 billion from Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen's investment firm, Vulcan Inc. This is highlighted to be the biggest commercial real estate deal for a single property this year.

Two U.S. soldiers were killed in eastern Afghanistan in an insurgent attack Saturday, news agencies reported citing U.S. military officials.

About 1,400 churches with tax-exempt status will make political endorsements on Sunday in violation of a decades-old IRS rule.

Arkansas state rep. Jon Hubbard claims that slavery may have been "a blessing in disguise" for black Americans in his new book “Letters to the Editor: Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative."

Barack Obama's campaign and the Democratic National Committee raked in $181 million last month.

Jose Antonio Vargas has asked the New York Times and the Associated Press to stop using the term "illegal immigrant" in their news stories.

Corporate CEOs are getting behind a campaign that seeks to influence discussions of spending cuts and tax hikes after the November general elections.

Stock markets in Asia are expected to begin the week on a positive note after official data Friday showed that the U.S. unemployment rate unexpectedly fell to a near four-year low in September.

North Korea’s state-run news agency published sinister warnings of a new war in the Korean peninsula even as South Korean media reported Saturday that Seoul and Washington had reached an agreement on extending the range of South Korean ballistic missiles to counter defense threat from Pyongyang.

The U.S. lawmakers are considering expanding the economic sanctions on Iran in the wake of the near-collapse of the Iranian currency, which senior Iranian clerics called a consequence of an American-led conspiracy to wage an economic war on Tehran.

With the Bank of Japan deciding to keep its monetary policy unchanged, investors feel that there is an urgent need to take measures for enhancing the growth potential of the economy.