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Joining a club of countries like Canada, Germany, Israel and the UK, the United States on Tuesday has become the 30th country to allow open military service. After a long period of 18 years, the controversial don't ask, don't tell policy banning homosexuals on serving in the U.S. military has been repealed.

The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles on Monday delayed a decision on the Troy Davis execution after hearing pleas from the families of both the inmate and the victim.

A U.S. appeals court reversed an order freezing enforcement outside of Ecuador of an $18 billion damages award against Chevron Corp over pollution in the Amazonian rain forest.

Charlie Sheen and Warner Bros are close to a settlement on the actor's $100 million lawsuit against the studio over his firing from Two and a Half Men, a source with knowledge of the situation said on Monday.

A badly decomposed body, which is suspected as the missing nursing student Michelle Le's remains by the authority, was found in a bushy area of Alameda County of the San Francisco Bay Area late Saturday morning.

NASA has announced that it is currently testing an element of the sunshield that will be used to protect the James Webb Space Telescope's mirrors and instruments when it embarks on its mission to observe the most distant objects in the universe.

Death of trainer Dawn Brancheau leads to charges against SeaWorld.

Database giant Oracle is scheduled to announce first quarter results Tuesday. If they maintain the recent pattern, they’ll likely beat analyst estimates of 44 cents a share carried by Zacks.

None of India's 20 nuclear power plants were disturbed by the earthquake, officials said Monday. The nuclear facility closest to the quake's epicenter is the Narora Power Station, some 800 miles to the west. The quake hit Sunday night, and the death toll has reached 74 people.

Madagascar will arrest exiled former president Marc Ravalomanana if he returns to the Indian Ocean island, a senior cabinet minister said a day after signing a road map aimed at holding elections within a year.

Samsung, the South Korean electronics giant, is planning to take strong legal actions to ban iPhone 5, expected sometime in October, in Korean market, according to a new report.

Thousands of people have protested against the scheduled execution of Troy Davis, a Georgia inmate who is scheduled to die by lethal injection Wednesday.

The five-member Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles will meet on Monday to consider whether to grant clemency to Troy Davis, a death row inmate scheduled to be executed on Sept. 21 for the 1989 murder of a Savannah police officer.

International lenders told Greece on Monday it must shrink its public sector and improve tax collection to avoid default within weeks as investors spooked by political setbacks in Europe dumped risky euro zone assets.

The row between consumer electronics giants Apple and Samsung escalated on Monday as reports surfaced that the Korean company would file suit against the iPhone 5.

The death toll has risen to 53 people in Sikkim, India, where a 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit Sunday night. About ten of the deaths occurred in Nepal, primarily in the capital of Katmandu, where a series of building collapses trapped people under debris.

Greece must implement reforms agreed under an EU/IMF bailout plan and improve tax collection to qualify for further rescue payments, the IMF said on Monday.

A low-intensity blast at a hospital in the tourist city of Agra injured at least three people on Saturday, a local police official said.

The Los Angeles Dodgers have proposed an auction of the right to broadcast the baseball team's games in a bid to bring in billions of dollars to stabilize its finances and end its bankruptcy.

Searchers found unidentified remains Saturday while looking for Michelle Le off a dirt trail in Sunol, Calif., about 50 miles (80km) southeast of San Francisco.

Samsung Electronics Co. has accused Apple of patent infringement in Australia, widening a growing dispute between the two companies over smartphone technologies. Samsung is also appealing a German court's ruling to ban the sale of its Galaxy Tab in Germany.