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

Oracle shares leaped nearly 7 percent Wednesday after the database giant assuaged investor fears that lagging hardware sales might slow it down. The company reported first-quarter earnings that exceeded analyst expectations.

While Georgia officials are planning to execute death row inmate Troy Davis for a 1989 murder, the U.S. Supreme Court for the second time this week granted a stay of execution in a Texas case involving an Army recruiter convicted of raping and killing a woman he met at a bar.

You will not find Maria Sharapova moaning about crowded schedules after a year in which the Russian has returned to within sight of the summit of women's tennis.

Several hundred South African former miners have launched court proceedings against Anglo American Plc in London, the latest in a wave of lawsuits and compensation claims over lung disease that could cost the gold industry billions.

For the second time in a week's duration, the Supreme Court halted a planned execution in Texas by intervening in the final hours of the execution.

With the hours before Troy Davis' scheduled execution dwindling rapidly, the Georgia death row inmate's defenders made a last ditch attempt to delay his execution by demanding that prison officials let him take a polygraph test.

Death row inmate Troy Davis has been in familiar situations before, but this time it looks like his chances of clinging on to life are slimmer than all times before. After the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles denied his clemency plea and said his execution will take place as per schedule at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, observers are giving slim chances for the judicial system to give him another chance.

If the pardon board shows no mercy to his plea for polygraph test on Wednesday, Troy Davis will be executed on Wednesday for a murder that he claims he did not commit.

It seems that Samsung is not only continuing on its Galaxy S II to battle against the fifth generation Apple iPhone as the South Korean tech giant is reportedly preparing to make iPhone 5 illegal in Korea and Europe.

After waiting for days to get one signature needed for the release of two U.S. hikers in Iran, lawyer Masoud Shafiei said he has finally succeeded in his mission on Wednesday.

Iran is expected to free two American men convicted of espionage on bail Wednesday and turn them over to the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, their lawyer told Reuters.

Namibia's Mineworkers Union of Namibia (MUN) on Wednesday served Rio Tinto's Rossing uranium mine with a strike notice after failing to reach a deal in talks over output incentives, with a stoppage expected to start on Friday.

So how comfortable are we going to be using public rest rooms after getting to know about something like this? Starbucks might soon be paying a heavy price once again for another hidden camera affair. William Yockey, from Virginia is suing Starbucks after his 5-year-old daughter found a spy cam in one of its bathrooms in Washington, D.C. This is at least the third such incident reported this year for the coffee chain, ABC news reported.

The board was the only thing standing between Davis, 42, and execution. It convened on Monday to hear hours of testimonies from supporters and prosecutors.

Tom Sizemore, an American film actor on Tuesday spent several hours behind bars as Los Angeles police arrested him on an outstanding battery warrant.

Actor Tom Sizemore spent several hours behind bars in Los Angeles on Tuesday for apparently missing a court date last month, police and judicial officials said.

Protesters associated with the Occupy Wall Street movement have sworn to remain in Lower Manhattan's financial district until they see change, but on Tuesday afternoon they grappled with the possibility that they would not be allowed to stay in the small park that has served as a base camp.

Database giant Oracle reported its first quarter net income jumped 36 percent to $1.8 billion, exceeding analyst estimates, as revenue rose a more modest 12 percent to $8.4 billion.

New York appeals court has lifted a ban on the $18bn judgment against the oil giant, Chevron for environment damage in Ecuador.

Convicted cop killer Troy Davis is set to be killed in Georgia Wednesday. Davis was denied clemency Tuesday morning by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, the only authority in the state with the power to commute a death sentence.