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The football magician Lionel Messi arrived in Kolkata early Wednesday to take part in the FIFA international friendly match against Venezuela, which will be played at the Salt Lake Stadium on Sept. 2.

National Guard soldiers on Tuesday began airlifting food and water to about a dozen Vermont towns that have been cut off by the raging waters that remained after Hurricane Irene. At least three deaths have been reported in that state, which was somewhat reshaped by the flood waters from Irene.

Hong Kong-listed shares of China Construction Bank Corp rose more than 4 percent on Tuesday after Bank of America Corp said it will sell about half of its 10 percent stake in the Chinese lender, providing relief to investors by removing uncertainty surrounding the stake.

China Mengniu Dairy Co Ltd , the country's top dairy product maker in which China private equity firm Hopu Investment Management owns a stake, on Tuesday posted a 27.6 percent rise in first-half net profit on solid sales growth, pledging to ensure product quality after a series of scandals tainted the industry's reputation.

National Guard and firefighters rescued hundreds people from record flooding in New Jersey on Tuesday and Vermont planned to airlift food and water to inland towns cut off by Hurricane Irene after its paralyzing rampage through the U.S. northeast.

The initial reaction to Steve Jobs' resignation as Apple's CEO was speculation on just how far Apple's stock price would drop the next day. So just how far could another company, like Berkshire Hathaway, drop when Warren Buffett finally retires?

Federal Emergency Management Agency's disaster aid money is swiftly running out as it faces a daunting Hurricane Irene cleanup that could cost billions of dollars.

Sprint schedules an event for October 7, which has already been rumored as the iPhone 5 release date. Is this a mere coincidence or not?

The federal government will distribute emergency supplies across Vermont to people and communities still feeling the effects of Hurricane Irene, which is threatening to become the state's worst natural disaster since the historic 1927 flood.

Firefighters battling a forest fire near Yosemite National Park since last week have manage to encircle about a third of the blaze, but a main road into the park remained cut off, officials said on Monday.

Massive flooding and widespread power outages continued to bother Vermont on Tuesday after Hurricane Irene hit the small Northern state on Sunday.

As states along the East Coast begin to clear away Hurricane Irene's wreckage, Washington began a fresh round of budget sparring over how to help pay for the cleanup.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Universal Display, Limelight Networks, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Dendreon, and NetApp. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: NuPathe, Central European Distribution, Hercules Offshore, LM Ericsson Telephone, and ASML Holding.

Even PIMCO's Bill Gross makes a wrong call every now and then. Gross, manager of the world's largest bond fund noted for calling the housing bubble early on that burst several years ago, feels like crying in his beer for betting so heavily against U.S. government related debt this year.

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Universal Display, Cninsure, Leap Wireless International, Exide Technologies, and Sify Technologies. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Nara Bancorp, Winn-Dixie Stores, Oclaro, Insight Enterprises, and Stratasys.

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc will ask a bankruptcy judge on Tuesday to let creditors vote on its $65 billion payout plan, a key step toward ending the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history.

Hong Kong-listed shares of China Construction Bank Corp, the world's No.2 lender, rose more than 4 percent on Tuesday after news that Bank of America Corp will sell about half of its stake in the Chinese lender.

Three people are confirmed dead in Vermont on Monday after flood waters from Hurricane Irene somewhat reshaped parts of that state ? and upstate New York ? in what is said to be the worst natural disaster since an epic flood in 1927.

Star bond fund manager Jeffrey Gundlach was in discussions to leave Trust Company of the West and succeed Bill Gross at Pacific Investment Management in 2009, according to court testimony.

Irene ran through 10 states on the East Coast, damaging several communities, including some in New York and New Jersey, with winds and floods. It is believed that Irene claimed 25 lives as of Monday and caused between $7 billion and $13 billion in damages.

Cuban hurdler Dayron Robles was stripped of gold and glory at the world athletics championships on Monday in a twist every bit as dramatic as Usain Bolt's disqualification from the blue riband 100 meters sprint the night before.