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Iranian-American filmmaker Hossein Keshavarz's directorial debut, Dog Sweat, has won recognition at world film festivals, but it will never be seen in his homeland.

China-based Qihoo 360 Technology Co (QIHU.N) posted better-than-expected quarterly results and forecast strong revenue for the current quarter as the provider of antivirus software draws more money from online advertising.

Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent won more of the emerging market for LTE wireless network technology in the third quarter, helped by their strong position in the United States, researcher Dell'Oro said.

Threats of money problems continue to hang over U.S. local governments, but most cities and counties will still be able to pay their debts in the near future, Janney Capital Markets said in a special report on Wednesday.

Bradley Cooper is the latest Hollywood heartthrob to be named People's sexiest man alive, the magazine announced on Wednesday.

The woman who claimed teen singer Justin Bieber fathered a baby with her has dropped her paternity lawsuit.

Rambus Inc lost and was awarded no damages in an antitrust trial in which it accused Micron Technology Inc and Hynix Semiconductor Inc of conspiring to prevent Rambus's computer memory technology from becoming the industry standard.

Chip technology developer Tessera Technologies Inc said Korean consumer electronics maker Samsung Electronics Co renewed a license agreement for another five years.

Chipmaker InvenSense Inc opened 11 percent above its offering price of $7.50 per unit on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday.

Energy Secretary Steven Chu has said it may take similar skills to navigate Washington politics as it does to make advances in physics research, a field in which he won a Nobel Prize in 1997.

A prominent forensic pathologist said a woman found hanged, bound and nude at the mansion of her wealthy boyfriend was less likely a victim of suicide, as police concluded, than of murder, and he urged a reopening of the case.

The headboard from Michael Jackson's deathbed was withdrawn from auction on Tuesday at the request of the singer's family.

A handwritten letter from Paul McCartney on August 12, 1960 inviting an unnamed drummer to audition for a place in the Beatles has sold at Christie's for 34,850 pounds ($55,000).

British singer Adele said she was on the mend after undergoing microsurgery in Boston to treat a benign polyp on her vocal cords.

Jersey Shore star Michael The Situation Sorrentino on Tuesday sued retailer Abercrombie & Fitch over what he claims was a publicity stunt to sell clothes using phrases associated with the reality TV actor.

Actor Jason Segel is best known for starring on the hit TV show How I Met Your Mother, and for comedies like Bad Teacher and Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

Apple Inc moved to shore up its board after the death of Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs, appointing Walt Disney Co chief executive Bob Iger to its board to propel its media ambitions.

Dell Inc's quarterly revenue just missed Wall Street estimates, and the world's No. 3 personal computer maker warned that full-year revenue could be hurt by an industrywide shortage of hard drives.

Julian Barnes, who won this year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and Carol Ann Duffy, Britain's poet laureate, were among the nominees for the 2011 Costa Book Awards announced on Tuesday.

The decibel level in the small, bunker-like rehearsal room is ear-shattering and every loose item in the space is shaking as if an earthquake struck.

Turning 60 and celebrating 25 years as a solo performer, Sting has done what no other musician has done before -- he made an appumentary for the iPad.

In March 2010, Elliott Vanskike and his wife bought a 2,000 square-foot home in Madison, Wisconsin for $375,000, pondering the quality of life for their kids as well as the quirks that come with thousands of college kids literally on your doorstep.

Thanksgiving, the U.S. holiday that anyone who likes to eat loves to celebrate, is just a week away and experts agree there is not one perfect wine to accompany the feast, but many.

A fire broke out and was quickly extinguished Monday night in a crude distillation unit at Chevron Corp's 245,271 barrel-per-day (bpd) Richmond, California, refinery, according to notices the refinery filed with state and federal pollution regulators.

Tinseltown is set to take on the Time Lord, with Harry Potter director David Yates planning to build a movie franchise based on Britain's hugely popular Dr. Who series.

Despite the success of his hit debut album Thank Me Later, rapper Drake feels the record never showed his best work. The follow-up Take Care, available in stores and online Tuesday, is another story.

As Twilight fans gear up for the emotional rollercoaster of weddings, babies and battles that is Breaking Dawn - Part 1, the movie's three stars are beginning to look to new horizons.

Teenagers who spend a lot of time on video-games have different structures and activity levels in areas of the brain that are linked to reward, scientists have found, suggesting they get more out of gaming than people who tend to play less.

Research In Motion Ltd (RIM), the maker of Blackberry smartphones, said its subscriber base in the UK had passed the 8 million milestone as it unveiled a new cloud-based music service in the country