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A former employee at convicted financier Bernard Madoff's firm admitted to adding fake employees to the payroll and creating fraudulent accounts, part of a plea deal on Monday over bank fraud and other charges.

After a leaked video trailer of the Hollywood/David Fincher version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo spread widely over the Memorial Day weekend before being pulled by Sony, the officially sanctioned preview is now up.

A Goldman Sachs Group Inc shareholder sued Rajat Gupta, a former director of the investment bank, over trades revealed in civil and criminal insider trading cases against Gupta and convicted Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam.

After days of denials, Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-NY on Monday admitted to sending a bulging underpants crotch photo to a Seattle woman and personal photos to six women in total, prompting House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, D-CA to call for an ethics investigation to determine if official resources were used.

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou told his cabinet on Monday it was crucial to accept years of austerity to secure a new international bailout, a challenge for a nation already seething over corruption.

Orphan Sung-bong Choi brings tears to the eyes of 'Korea's Got Talent' judges.

Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs strode back into the spotlight on Monday to unveil the iCloud, a music-streaming service that the company hopes will power its next stage of growth and popularize Web-based consumer services.

General Motors Co expects to sell 1.5 million vehicles a year in South America by 2015, up from 1.03 million last year, the head of the largest U.S. automaker's operations in the region said.

Microsoft launches new features for Xbox Live, including streaming live TV.

Hedge fund manager John Paulson posted fresh losses last month in one of his biggest funds even as other of his portfolios are faring well.

A statement from Ben Ali's France-based lawyer says Ben Ali always worked in the best interest of the Tunisian people.

A restructuring of Greece's public debt, which many analysts say is inevitable, is inappropriate as long as the country follows through on promised reforms, European Central Bank chief Jean-Claude Trichet said Monday.

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping visits Cuba to improve economic times.

Winifred Jiau, who is at the center of a high-profile, insider-trading trial, has much in common with other white-collar defendants. The former expert-network consultant has the benefit of a high-powered legal team and a sophisticated defense strategy.

Rep. Anthony Weiner D-NY admitted to lying about a lewd photo tweet scandal over the past 10 days, saying he had indeed sent the photo to a 21-yaer old woman.

The trustee for Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc's U.S. brokerage is entitled to $4 billion of disputed margin collateral assets in its legal fight with Barclays Plc , a bankruptcy judge ruled on Monday.

After more naked photos of himself were released today, Anthony Weiner called a press conference at 4 p.m. Apologizing to his family and constituents with tears, Weiner said he would not resign.

The U.S. Rep. from New York apologizes, but where's his wife?

Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs strode back into the spotlight on Monday to unveil the iCloud, a music-streaming service that the company hopes will power its next stage of growth and popularize Web-based consumer services.

Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs strode back into the spotlight on Monday to unveil the iCloud, a music-streaming service that the company hopes will power its next stage of growth and popularize Web-based consumer services.

Microsoft Corp is looking to put its popular Kinect motion-sensing device at the heart of its Xbox game console, unveiling plans on Monday to allow users to control live television feeds, search YouTube and play action games with voice commands.

The S&P 500 extended its slide to a fourth day on Monday, hitting its lowest level since March 18, as a spate of recent weak U.S. data lent support to a bearish outlook for the economy.

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At the WWDC Keynote, Steve Jobs made the long-awaited iCloud announcement. Despite all the speculations and rumors, iCloud is much more than a music streaming service, and can possibly threaten all the existing cloud services.

Steve Jobs takes the stage to present Apple's innovations: Lion, the new operating system, iPhone 5, and iCloud, the next step in digital media.

Rep. Anthony Weiner D-NY, on Friday admitted sending a lewd photo recently, six online relationships, and said he won't resign and also didn't deny that graphic photos exist.

Rep. Weiner admitted the photo sent over Twitter was from him, as well as other inappropriate pictures and messages. He says he has no plans to resign.

Apple's CEO Steve Jobs announced and unveiled the new music streaming service called iCloud at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.