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Stock index futures were higher on Thursday, following three days of market losses and ahead of a batch of data including industrial production, jobless claims and New York manufacturing.

Crude oil prices advanced in Europe trade on Thursday, after plunging to their lowest level in more than five weeks in the previous session.

Anna Chlumsky, who co-starred with Macaulay Culkin in the 1991 hit film My Girl, stepped out for The Iron Lady premiere Tuesday night looking gorgeous in a red dress and black heels.

The Los Angeles Clippers and New Orleans Hornets have resubmitted a multiplayer deal that would send Chris Paul to the Clippers, according multiple reports.

Regus specializes in short-term, flexible office leasing. The company has expanded to over 92 countries with 1,200 locations, and with the soft economy, it is poised to continue growth.

Lana Del Rey debuted her first professional music video Born to Die Wednesday, featuring tigers, a tattooed man, and lots of blood.

Militants are also charged with making threats against Riccardo Pacifici, the head of Rome’s Jewish community.

Newt Gingrich has risen like the proverbial phoenix from the ashes to become a front-runner for the 2012 Republican Party nomination for president. But is he too old to serve in the most demanding, elected office in the world?

Ford will begin production of the 2012 Focus Electric, the first five-passenger electric car to average more than 100 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) on the fuel efficiency scale.

Sixteen top technology leaders – including the founders of Google, Netscape, Yahoo and eBay – published full-page advertisements Wednesday opposing the pending Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in Congress.

Suzanne Hart, 41, was crushed in a freak elevator accident at 285 Madison Ave. in mid-town Manhattan this morning

Demi Moore won't be changing her Twitter handle anytime soon. After much speculation over whether the actress will change her Twitter handle from @mrskutcher to something more fitting now that she will divorce 'Two and a Half Men' actor Ashton Kutcher after a six-year marriage, Moore said she has more important things to worry about.

A three-page contract, which resulted in the creation of Apple Computer Co. and was signed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne on April 1, 1976, was sold at an auction for $1,594,500 on Tuesday. At a Sotheby’s auction in New York City on Tuesday, about 20 people attended the bidding of the document. Six bidders were on telephone and online. Finally, it went to a telephone bidder Eduardo Cisneros, the CEO of Cisneros Corp.

Universal Pictures has acquired the worldwide rights to the young adult-fantasy novel Daughter of Smoke & Bone, the studio announced Wednesday.

Task outsourcing startup TaskRabbit has closed a new $17.8 million round of funding, the company announced today.

JumpTime, a Los-Angeles based technology company, has hired media veteran Elizabeth Osder as SVP of Strategy & Business Development.

Police in Baltimore evicted anti-Wall Street protesters on Tuesday and operations returned to normal at West Coast ports a day after a series of marches that disrupted operations at several terminals.

Coca-Cola Co (KO.N) is buying a stake in Saudi Arabia-based beverage company Aujan Industries for $980 million in what is seen as a bid to catch up with rival PepsiCo Inc (PEP.N) in the Middle East.

George Clooney isn't exactly synonymous with theater, but for one night, he'll be the biggest star on stage in Los Angeles.

At this time of year Hollywood brings out big-budget movies like Mission: Impossible with Tom Cruise and the new Sherlock Holmes film starring Robert Downey, Jr.

When Tyra Batts, the only black student on a girls' high school basketball team in Kenmore East, N.Y. heard the chant 1-2-3-N****r, she couldn't believe it had been a team tradition for years. When Batts confronted her teammates about the racial slur, they shrugged it off as a joke. Now Batts has gone public, her team is suspended, and tensions are high.