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The couple of convicted kidnappers and rapists of Jaycee Dugard, who in 1991 was a girl abducted at age 11 that was held for the next 18 years in a San Francisco suburb, were sentenced on Thursday before a scolding judge, prosecutor and mother of the victim.

Shaquille O’Neal, who announced his retirement yesterday after a stellar 19 years in the NBA, earned almost $300-million in salary over his career.

The French foreign minister Alain Juppe plans to invite his Israeli and Palestinian counterparts this month to Paris for re-starting peace talks.

The number of people killed or left homeless in last year’s earthquake in Haiti was much lower than claimed by the country’s leaders, according to a draft report commissioned by the US government.

Hacker group LulzSec, previously in the news for posting hoax Tupac story on PBS’s website, has announced they will continue to attack Sony’s online networks.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi finally agreed to a ceasefire call in talks with South African President Jacob Zuma.

The civil war that has raged in Colombia over the past quarter-century has resulted in the illegal seizure of at least 17-million acres of land by armed groups, according to the Bogota government.

ChronoPay, a Russian payment service company, has vehemently denied accusations that Mac Defender, the first scamware ever to strike Apple computers, is its “brainchild.”

Palestinians are not seeking to isolate Israel, but will pursue the unilateral demand for UN recognition of statehood, President Mahmoud Abbas said on Friday.

Google launched its much awaited NFC-enabled mobile payment platform, Google Wallet, which enables users to make payments at the point-of-sale (POS) by merely waving the phone.

Google launched its much awaited NFC-enabled mobile payment platform, Google Wallet, which enables users to make payments at the point-of-sale (POS) by merely waving the phone.

Apple has settled a lawsuit with a New York City teenager who sold more than $130,000 worth of unauthorized white iPhone conversion kits.

Sony Corp. missed analysts profit estimates for the next fiscal year, largely due to the record earthquake that hit Japan and a string of attacks from hackers.

Google's long awaited mobile wallet or Near Field Communication (NFC) enabled smartphones which will make processing payments with a mere wave of the phone near a point-of-sale a reality is due to be unveiled on Thursday.

Obituaries for wealthy recluse Huguette Clark have reignited questions about the final resting place of Clark's fortunes, estimated at around half a billion dollars.

Apple steps up to defend app developers from a patent suit, saying that the license it bought should cover developers also.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Sify Technologies, China Techfaith Wireless Communication Technology, GT Solar International, United Community Banks, Pharmasset, Perfect World, and TiVo. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Identive Group, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, and Research In Motion.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bluntly told President Barack Obama on Friday his vision of how to achieve Middle East peace was unrealistic, exposing a deep divide that could doom any U.S. bid to revive peace talks.

European officials largely endorsed US President Barack Obama’s call for a reshaping of the Israel-Palestine map by reverting to the borders in place before the Six Day War of 1967.

The peace-deal between Israel and Palestine will be achieved only if the 1967 borders are taken into consideration, says a report published by Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy in February 2010.

Some prominent Israeli reporters who are accompanying the Egyptian Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his trip to Washington, has predicted a stormy meeting between him and the US President. Netanyahu and Obama are scheduled for talks at the White House on Friday.