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Saudi women activists, bloggers and academicians on Monday dashed off a letter to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday seeking her support for their 'right to drive' in the country.

Montreal's Bombardier announced their new buyer, a major network carrier for their Cseries aircraft on the first day of the Paris Air Show.

The number of food allergies in children in United States is much more serious than government thinks, according to a new study.

Average price of 4-bedroom home in Newport Beach is $2.5 million

Online purchases of consumer packaged goods from disposable diapers to processed food will more than double to $25 billion by 2014, information and measurement company Nielsen said on Monday.

A look at the schedule of the First Lady's good-will tour to southern Africa.

Miss California has model good looks and supports the teaching of evolution

Pittsburg based PNC, a Financial Services Group Inc. confirmed its acquisition of Royal Bank of Canada's U.S. South eastern retail operation for $3.45 billion.

Norwegian scientists have devised an efficient and inexpensive means to measure drug use in cities by sampling municipal wastewater, according to the Environmental Science & Technology Journal.

Miss America, Miss USA was hosted by Bravo's Andy Cohen and E!'s Giuliana Rancic. Miss California, Alyssa Campanella, was crowned Miss USA.

The First Lady is landing in South Africa Monday to start a week-long good-will tour.

Miss California Alyssa Campanella, 21, was crowned with the title of Miss USA 2011 Sunday night, beating 50 other beauties at the annual beauty pageant held at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip.

Apple's iPad 2 challenger Samsung's sleek 10.1-inch Galaxy Tab, which is now available with US retailers, is probably the best android tablet on the market.

Stock index futures pointed to a lower open on Wall Street on Monday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.7 percent, Dow Jones futures down 0.7 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 0.7 percent at 0758 GMT (3:58 a.m. ET).

Apple Inc, failed to find a place in a latest ranking list of top 20 corporate brands in India, though it topped similar surveys in the US and UK.

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. Lindsey Graham sharply questioned a broadening push, including by Republican presidential hopefuls, to more rapidly withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Monday are: CF Industries Holdings, Peabody Energy, CONSOL Energy, Sprint Nextel, PNC Financial Services, Nabors Industries, Akamai Technologies, Carnival Corp, Nike and Sandisk Corp.

The British Library in UK has finalized a deal with Google, under which the search engine will digitize works dating between 1700 and 1870.

Stock index futures fell on Monday as a delay in emergency loans to Greece and a possible downgrade of Italy's credit rating rekindled fears about the euro zone debt crisis, pushing investors out of riskier assets.

Stock index futures fell on Monday after euro zone finance ministers postponed a final decision on extending emergency loans to debt-stricken Greece.

Thousands of Historic books and papers from the British Library’s collection will be available online through a new partnership with Google.