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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.

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.

In what looks like a concerted attack on Apple from every corner, Samsung is going in for the kill by unleashing fury like never before.

Researchers have unearthed a pair of fossilized teeth on the BLM land in northeast Oregon, which suggest that the American Beaver has changed very little in the last 7 million years.

Beaver Teeth More Than 7 Million Years Old

Germany's Social Democrats beat Angela Merkel's conservatives in a regional vote in Berlin on Sunday, handing the chancellor her sixth election defeat this year ahead of a key euro zone vote in parliament in two weeks.

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.

Oktoberfest 2011 runs from Sept. 17 to Oct. 3, the most important days being each of the three weekends. The festival opens when Munich Mayor Christian Ude taps the first keg at the Spaten tent,

Apple’s Dilemma of Introducing iPhone 5: Is it Samsung Galaxy S2 and Android OS?

Samsung on Friday filed a countersuit against Apple in Australia, where the sales of Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet may be banned later this month.

Simply suggesting that a treatment will ease chest pain may not only dampen the pain, but directly alter heart arteries, a small study concludes.

Oktoberfest festival is held annually in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. And this year the mayor of Munich Christian Ude has tapped the first keg to kick off the 178th traditional German folk festival.

According to the journal Science, a total of 11 specimens of colored feathers of dinosaur dating back to late Cretaceous were found in ambers in Canada and the colors divide gradually from black to brown.

Major sports events like the Olympics and soccer World Cup should retain tight security to counter terrorist threats, but policing should be less visible and more flexible, a top international security expert said on Friday.

Heidi Jones is hardly the first TV weatherman (or weatherwoman) to run afoul of the law.

At a meeting with E.U. finance ministers, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner made the case for a leveraged E.U. buyout fund ala the U.S.'s successful 2008 TALF, to help address Europe’s banking crisis, but the structure and size of any beefed-up intervention mechanism remained undetermined as of Friday night in Europe.

The cost to install solar power in the United States fell by 17 percent in 2010 and is on pace to drop even faster this year, according to a new report issued by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Speculation is growing in markets that Greece will be unable to avoid a full-blown default, despite two international bailouts and pledges of support from the eurozone's biggest economies.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told EU finance ministers on Friday they should end loose talk about a euro zone break-up and work more closely with the European Central Bank to tackle the debt crisis.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt is set to become Denmark's first woman prime minister after her leftist alliance defeated the coalition led by current Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen in Thursday's election.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner pressed euro zone ministers on Friday to leverage their 440 billion euro bailout fund and free up more resources to tackle a two-year-old debt crisis, a senior euro zone official said.