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Visa Inc, the world's largest credit and debit-card network, beat analysts estimates with a 23 percent increase in adjusted earnings as people spent more with cards.

Celebrities are writing a lot these days.

A touching video of a father surprising his son while dressed as Captain America went viral, but YouTube viewers aren?t the only ones moved by the reunion. Disney stumbled upon the viral home footage and invited the two to walk the red carpet on Saturday in New York City for a recent premier of ?The Avengers.?

Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis International AG / Sandoz (NYSE: NVS) announced Wednesday it would acquire Melville, N.Y.-based Fougera Pharmaceuticals for $1.5 billion in cash.The deal makes Sandoz, Novartis's generics drug division, the world's largest maker of generic dermatological drugs.

The spring art sales got off to a solid start at Christie's on Tuesday, with works by Cezanne and Matisse each selling for $19 million (11 million pounds) as the auction house moved $117 million worth of Impressionist and modern art.

News Corp. board announced 'full confidence' in Murdoch's leadership in response to a Parliamentary rebuke.

Scott Forstall, The Apple senior vice president of iOS software, just scored a $38.7 million payday, according to an SEC filing cited by Fortune Magazine. Forstall, 42, recently cashed in over 64,000 company shares, which netted him close to $40 million.

Newt Gingrich announced he would be ending his presidential candidacy and gave a half-hearted endorsement for Mitt Romney, but vowed his big ideas won't be going anywhere.

The Rangers and Capitals look to take the advantage in their second round playoff series. The two teams are knotted at 1-1 in this Eastern Conference semifinal matchup.

Now that the first anniversary of Osama Bin Laden?s death shed renewed light on the ?needle in the haystack? side of data analysis that helped catch him, investors might wonder how to take advantage of it.

Junior Seau's death has touched the NFL Universe and prompted massive Twitter reaction.

Junior Seau is dead at age 43.

Nik Wallenda announced that he will cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope June 15, even though his great-grandfather Karl Wallenda plunged to his death doing a similar stunt.

The U.S. tabled draft resolution, which seeks to apply economic sanctions on the two warring countries if they fail to de-escalate a growing border conflict, was presented to the five permanent members of the Security Council during a meeting in New York on Monday.

Activists aligned with the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York ended a day of mass street protest Tuesday by being chased out of a public plaza in Lower Manhattan by the police, in an anti-climactic conclusion to what otherwise seemed to have been a successful day for the visibility of their cause.

Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and biographer David Maraniss has dug up love letters and journal entries from President Barack Obama's ex-girlfriends to get an idea of what the president was like during his largely unknown time in New York City in his early 20s.

Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda announced on Wednesday that he would attempt to cross the famed Niagara Falls on June 15.

Though federal and local law enforcement officials said there are no known threats aimed at New York City in light of Osama bin Laden's death anniversary, New York police are beefing up security measures as a precaution.

Aung San Suu Kyi, an important long-time pro-democracy leader in Myanmar, was sworn into parliament on Wednesday -- a historic development and positive sign for democracy in the military-led country.

Here are some predictions for the remaining awards for the 2011-2012 NBA Season.

After passing heart tests conducted at The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., Gregg Allman will begin his postponed book tour, followed by a summer tour with the Allman Brothers Band