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The release of Samsung’s Galaxy S3, its flagship smartphone for 2012, has sparked excitement throughout the mobile device industry. In addition to impressive hardware specs, it seems the Korean manufacturer is seeking to please with its aesthetic features as well. According to Pocket Lint, Samsung has hinted that the Galaxy S3 will be available in an array of new colors, in addition to those already announced.

A photo from a New Jersey gay couple's engagement party has landed an anti-gay union organization in hot water, after it used the photo without permission in a political attack ad against a pro-civil union Republican in Colorado.

Rahm Emanuel and Karl Rove somehow agree on what the Romney campaign needs to do. Meanwhile, chief Romney campaign strategist Ed Gillespie ignores both of them.

Consider: at New York’s Stuyvesant H.S., one of the best in the country, more than 80 students are ensnared in a cheating probe of a city language exam administered last month. Cellphone accounts are intercepted by cops. Is anything electronic immune?

Saudi Arabia Saturday slammed the comments by Russia's human rights envoy, who had expressed great concern about the situation in the Gulf Kingdom, and condemned an unjustified interference in the Kingdom's internal affairs, state media Saudi Press Agency reported.

Even as the embers of the fire engulfing her parent's divorce gradually die down, Suri Cruise has begun to take the first steps towards resuming normal life with Katie Holmes, away from the over-protective glare of Tom Cruise.

Asian markets breathed a sigh of relief Friday as the Chinese GDP figures improved, contrary to what some had feared, and eased concerns of a sharper slowdown in the world's second largest economy. The second quarter economic data showed a sequential acceleration and pointed to a pick-up in growth in the second half of the year.

Israel is faced with a major water deficit, and it's investing in desalination to solve the problem -- but the country's big push for getting water from the sea is not without risks.

Brazil has risen to number six among the world's economies. As it finds itself caught between prosperity and a past of poverty, it's dealing with a pervasive problem: lots of household debt

The settlement, which lawyers are calling the largest antitrust settlement in U.S. history, would resolve dozens of lawsuits filed by retailers in 2005 that accused the card companies of fixing fees for processing credit and debit card payments and prohibiting stores from steering their customers to cheaper forms of payment.

China's aging and diminishing population is not a surprise, but experts lament that little is being done to prepare society for its effects.

Verizon Wireless announced Friday that it would expand its 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in the San Francisco Bay Area in the coming weeks.

At a time when the fight between Apple and Samsung over the sales ban on Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the U.S. is creating much buzz around the tech world, FOSS Patents has stumbled upon some documents, which reveal just how aggressively forthright the iPhone-maker has been even with retailers selling the objectionable devices in the country.

South Korea's announcement of the unexpected interest rate cut this week has given an indication to market players that policymakers are unnerved by the country's economic condition.

The top after-market NYSE gainers Friday were Saks Inc, MasterCard, EXCO Resources, Visa and Yanzhou Coal Mining. The top after-market NYSE losers were New York & Co, Omega Healthcare Investors, Bonanza Creek Energy, VimpelCom and Accuride Corp.

Luxury homeowners are panicking at the prospect of paying millions of dollars more in capital gains taxes from next year. Their soaring desperation could eventually cripple housing prices.

For 223 years and running, France has celebrated the destruction of a prison with a massive bash called La Fête Nationale (French National Celebration) or quatorze juillet (July 14) -- better known to most of us as Bastille Day.

Liverpool have completed their first signing of the Brendan Rodgers era and more could soon be on the way.

Saeed, who has a $10-million bounty on his head care of the U.S. government, commended Cameron, as well as the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, for their frugal lifestyles.

Clint Dempsey looks set for a move to one of the Premier League's big clubs this summer.

MI6 Chief John Sawers said that Iran is now two years away from developing nuclear weapons, and that his spy agency had prevented this from happening in 2008.