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J.C. Penney Co Inc's February sales are down from last year, its chief executive said on Friday, as the retailer tries to get shoppers used to a new pricing strategy that does not include the discounts that hurt margins.

Sri Lanka chased down 280 with four balls to spare to clinch a confidence-boosting three-wicket win over Australia in their one-day match in Hobart on Friday and take top spot in the tri-series tournament.

The BSE Sensex was headed for a second day of decline on Thursday as investors booked profits from recent rallies as concerns mounted over the state of the global economy, including rising oil prices.

Wall Street stocks were poised for a modestly lower open on Wednesday, putting the three-day winning streak for the S&P 500 in jeopardy after weaker-than-expected euro zone economic data and ahead of a report on the U.S. housing market.

Johnson & Johnson Chief Executive William Weldon will step down from his post in April after a series of recalls called into question the quality of the healthcare giant's products, from artificial hips to infant Tylenol.

Anonymous took down the Greek Ministry of Justice site under #OpGreece on Tuesday, replacing it with an ominous call to arms.

Barnes & Noble Inc posted a lower holiday-quarter profit as investments to keep its Nook e-reader competitive with Amazon.com Inc's Kindle continued to hurt its results.

Advocacy groups and news sources alike are calling on the Heart Attack Grill to close its doors after one of its patrons suffered an actual heart attack while eating the restaurant's Triple Bypass Burger. Should the grill be shut down, or does the Las Vegas restaurant have the right to stay open? Vote here.

Westbound lanes on the Bay Bridge, connecting Oakland to San Francisco, will shut down over Presidents' Day Weekend to allow for seismic retrofitting.

Stock index futures fell on Thursday as a Moody's warning of a possible downgrade of global banks and a further holdup in a bailout for debt-laden Greece kept investors nervous.

Societe Generale SA said fourth-quarter profit fell 89 percent as the investment bank was badly affected by Greek debt write down and toxic assets.

Telemarketers will have to get written consent before placing automated calls to consumers under new rules U.S. communications regulators voted to adopt on Wednesday.

A customer eating at the grease-fest known as the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas was rushed to a hospital on Saturday after suffering from, you guessed it, a heart attack.

Applications for home mortgages slipped last week, pulled lower by a steep drop in demand for home purchases, an industry group said on Wednesday.

The precious metals market followed Wall Street's skid today, as gold and companies that peddle it were driven down by underwhelming retail figures in the U.S., and ongoing concerns over Greece and the Eurozone.

The ratings for Oprah's OWN channel have been dismal since the channel went on air in January 2001 and Winfrey's attempt to seemingly finagle higher ratings using Twitter did not sit well with Nielsen.

Hacker collective Anonymous has taken down a number of Web sites on Tuesday, including that of the Bahrain government and the U.S. maker of teargas used on protesters in Bahrain last month.

Microsoft India's retail website was down on Monday after being hacked, with a purportedly Chinese group called Evil Shadow Team posting screenshots the hackers said were customers' obscured usernames and passwords found unencrypted on the site.

Just a week after the Greek Ministry of Justice Web site was defaced by Anonymous in a protest against the signing of the controversial ACTA treaty by the Greek government, the online activist group has reportedly taken down a number of Greece government run Web sites in response to the people powered uprising in Athens.

Gautam Gambhir's 92 at the top and some smart batting by captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni at the finish helped India chase down a 270-run target against Australia in Adelaide on Sunday for their second win in the triangular series.

The S&P posted its biggest percentage decline so far in 2012 on Friday after an about-face on Greece's long-awaited debt deal ended a five-week streak of gains for equities.