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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addressed the UN General Assembly on September 22 to make a plea for Palestinian statehood.

The bank’s operations were suspended last Saturday by the government due to suspected irregularities

Still burdened by an ongoing phone-hacking scandal at its British subsidiaries, Rupert Murdoch's company is aggressively buying back shares in an effort to buttress its share price. Assuming the shares remain at about $17, one analyst estimates News Corp. will have repurchased almost $2.2 billion in shares by as early as Nov. 7.

Davis was killed by lethal injection on Wednesday after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to order a stay of execution.

The 10-minute footage reportedly shows the five young men laughing and joking as they take turns abusing the woman.

Israel has never confirmed nor denied the existence of a nuclear weapons program

Famed rocker Ted Nugent is a close friend of Republican Presidential candidate Rick Perry, but said he will not take a close role in the Texas governor’s campaign since he might be viewed with distaste by much of the electorate.

Mullen testified before a Senate panel that: The Haqqani network... acts as a veritable arm of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Agency.

Sata has long complained about undue Chinese influence upon the Zambian economy and political life.

Top ten most surprising things said by President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinehad, during his speech to the UN on Sept. 22, 2011.

The Dow has lost 6.74 percent over the past four days.

China's defense ministry warned that the deal with Taiwan has caused serious damage to Sino-US military relations.

Insisting that the United Kingdom is still a top-tier military power, West decried the aforementioned European countries as “second rate.”

U.S. stocks are suffering a massive sell-off, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeting more than 400 points, in the wake of a grim outlook from the Federal Reserve. Treasuries are rallying, the yield on the 10-Year note is at 1.76 percent, an all-time low.

Whitman, who failed to become Republican Governor of California last year after spending tens of millions of dollars in the campaign, is a highly controversial choice to lead the troubled HP.

The company said that about 75 percent of the acquisition will be financed by debt, with the remaining facilitated by stock issuance (amounting to $4.6-billion in new shares).

Not everyone is convinced that Perry will actually come out ahead at the end of this long race.

Since mid-February, HP stock has lost more than half its value.

U.S. stocks have opened sharply lower in Thursday morning trading following an overnight plunge in global markets. Equities have tumbled largely in response to the Federal Reserve’s grim warning about the state of the U.S. economy and the establishment bond swap program.

Foreign equities tumbled largely in response to the Federal Reserve’s grim warning about the state of the U.S. economy.

Almost one-third (31 percent) of Americans prefer texting their friends and family to calling them on their mobile phones.

During his brief stay at HP, Apotheker decided to dramatically shift the company’s strategy.

Davis was tried and convicted for the 1989 murder of Mark MacPhail, a police officer in Savannah, Ga.

Analysts are widely expecting the device to deliver record-shattering sales numbers.

The crowded streets of every major West Bank city indicates that many Palestinians are throwing their support behind the initiative.

More U.S. women are drinking booze and becoming alcoholics, according to a study by Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. About one-fifth of women have at least three drinks per day, versus a figure of about 42 percent for men.

Facebook’s management may view an IPO as a kind of “distraction” for its employees while the company is busy ramping up several new product lines and other projects.

Turner noted that, at age 72, he is too old to run a corporation while Murdoch is even older.

The stock price has been languishing for more than two years -- shares have lost almost half their value year-to-date.