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Boeing Co on Wednesday put some finishing touches on a make-over of its popular 737 aircraft as the U.S. planemaker battles with European arch-rival Airbus to deliver fuel savings to airlines hammered by near-record oil prices.

George Zimmerman's lawyers announced on Tuesday that they are stepping down from representing him in the shooting case of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager. They said at a Florida news conference that they are dropping Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch captain, as a client after they lost contact with him and he spoke with a television talk show host and contacted a prosecutor. The lawyers had expressly told Zimmerman not to have contact with anyone, the Washington Post reported....

Wall Street felt tremors Tuesday afternoon as the S&P 500 Index, Nasdaq Composite Index and Dow Jones Industrial Average both dropped precipitously following declines in European equity markets.

Iran says reports of an Internet shutdown are a hoax from the propaganda wing of the West.

Iran Tuesday rejected reports that it planned to permanently cut access to the Internet in August and launch a national intranet within five months and said multiple online reports surfaced Monday about Tehran's plan to do so were a hoax.

Freddie Mac , the No. 2 U.S. home funding company, said on Monday it sold $2 billion of reference bills at higher rates and weaker demand compared with the last week's sale of similar maturities.

U.S. 30-year fixed-rate mortgages declined slightly to 3.98 percent in the week ending April 5 as recent economic indicators were mixed, mortgage finance giant Freddie Mac said Thursday.

Stock index futures fell on Thursday as a rise in Spanish bond yields renewed concerns about the euro zone's financial health, and as investors awaited report on jobless claims.

Stock index futures fell on Thursday as a rise in Spanish bond yields renewed concerns about the euro zone's financial health, and as investors awaited report on jobless claims.

Stocks fell for a second day on Wednesday as investors contemplated a world without monetary stimulus and a poorly received bond auction in Spain suggested the effects of Europe's funding operations were waning.

Stocks fell for a second day on Wednesday as investors contemplated a world without monetary stimulus and a poorly received bond auction in Spain suggested the effects of Europe's funding operations were waning.

European new car sales will decline for the fifth year in a row in 2012 to 13 million vehicles, Fiat Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne said on Wednesday, as the group moved a step closer towards a full-blown merger with U.S. automaker Chrysler.

Stocks and commodities plunged Wednesday after the head of the European Central Bank -- a lynchpin in the euro zone's effort to contain the effects of its sovereign debt crisis -- suggested that some Greek banks will be left to collapse.

American Honda Motor Co. Inc. lost ground as its sales dropped an adjusted 8.4 percent in March, compared to the year before, but the company did not provide any statement about the drop.

Stock index futures fell on Tuesday after the S&P 500 climbed to a 4-year high in the previous session as investors awaited factory orders data and minutes of the latest Federal Reserve meeting.

Chinese authorities have shut down 16 websites and arrested six people after rumors of an attempted coup in Beijing spread over the Internet last week, China's state media reported.

Anonymous, the notorious hacktivist group is planning to shut down Internet worldwide on March 31, reported the Interpol. However, the group has denied the news on its Twitter account.

The unions argued that the law violated the U.S. Constitution by taking away workers' rights to bargain and organize, and discriminated against certain public-sector employees while exempting others, such as firefighters and police officers.

Anne Hathaway is reportedly on a 500 calories a day crash diet to drop 16lb in less than 20 days. She is on this drastic weight loss diet for her role of the dying prostitute, Fantine, in the movie adaptation of Les Miserables.

The collapse of an ice sheet in Antarctica up to 14,650 years ago might have caused sea levels to rise between 14 and 18 meters (46-60 feet), a study showed on Wednesday, data which could help make more accurate climate change predictions.

A lawyer discovered how far the U.S. Supreme Court will go to close itself off from the public when it hears a case, no matter how many people on Twitter may be interested.