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U.S. stocks fell modestly on Friday, snapping a five-day streak of gains, as declining crude oil prices offset positive economic data and a rosy outlook from shipping company FedEx Corp .

U.S. antitrust regulators have requested more documents in their probe of Microsoft Corp's deal to provide search engine technology to rival Yahoo Inc, the two companies said on Friday.

A U.S. court of appeals on Friday overturned a $358 million damages award against software maker Microsoft Corp in a long-running patent dispute with French telecoms equipment firm Alcatel-Lucent.

Canadian retailer Dollarama Inc filed a preliminary prospectus with the country's securities regulatory authorities for an initial public offering.

U.S. lawmakers should not let climate change legislation delays hold up proposals to overhaul the nation's outdated electricity grid, a top energy regulator said Friday.

If there is anything Oscar voters love, it is a good drama. But as a key festival stop on the road to Hollywood awards got down to business on Friday, dramas were less on movie screens and more behind the scenes where the film genre is troubled.

U.S. private equity firm TPG plans to list Myer, Australia's largest department store chain, on the local stock exchange this year in a deal that could be worth up to $2.6 billion and test the market's faith in recovery.

U.S. investigators are probing the former head of American International Group Inc's Financial Products unit, Joseph Cassano, and other executives for securities fraud, a law enforcement source familiar with the case said on Friday.

U.S. investigators are probing the former head of American International Group Inc's Financial Products unit, Joseph Cassano, and other executives for securities fraud, a law enforcement source familiar with the case said on Friday.

Dealmakers are not known for their patience. Yet that's what's needed more than anything else a year after Lehman's collapse.

Motorola Inc shares rose 6.5 percent on Friday on hopes the company could turn around its loss-making handset business with the new cellphone it developed with Google Inc.

Russia's Vladimir Putin on Friday gave his strongest indication yet that he may run again for the presidency at the next election in 2012.

President Barack Obama sought to rally Americans behind the war in Afghanistan on the eighth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States as opinion polls show faltering public support for the conflict.

Improving U.S. consumer sentiment and a big drawdown in wholesale inventories on Friday built on recent evidence that an economic recovery was picking up speed.

The U.S. economy is tentatively emerging from severe recession and inflation, as well as inflation expectations, are under control, Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Evans said on Friday.

Stocks dipped toward session lows on Friday, weighed down by a pullback in shares of energy companies that followed oil futures lower.

On September 11, 2001, hijacked passenger airplanes destroyed the World Trade Center in New York City and damaged the Pentagon in Washington D.C. killing near 3,000 people.Following is a brief timeline of the events of the day.

There is little support in Congress for sending more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, the top Democrat in the House of Representatives said on Thursday, indicating possible trouble ahead for President Barack Obama.

Vice president Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden visited the World Trade Center at Ground Zero on Friday marking the eighth anniversary commemoration of the 9/11 attacks.

Prisoners started a fire during a riot at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, U.S. and Iraqi officials said, resulting in some injuries at the jail that became synonymous with U.S. detainee abuse.

Social networking site Facebook has rolled out a new slim down version of Facebook aimed at people with slow net connections.