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Shanghai and parts of eastern China are preparing to face one of the biggest typhoons in recent years called Muifa, which is expected to bring torrential rains and heavy winds as it passes by.

A series of solar flares that erupted in the Sun over the last three days are heading towards Earth and could disrupt power grids and satellites.

Gold edged up more than half a percent on Friday as investors used bullion to shelter from the storm engulfing financial markets on concerns that the United States may be facing another recession and Europe's debt crisis is spreading to some of its largest economies.

World stock markets fell for the eighth straight session on Friday to the lowest since late 2010, with more losses feared if policymakers do not come to the rescue soon to stabilize the euro zone's debt crisis and prevent the U.S. economy from sliding back into recession.

NASA spacecraft will launch a five-year journey on Friday to conduct a deep examination of the interior of the largest planet in the solar system to see if there is actually a hidden core below the thick atmosphere.

Tropical Storm Emily broke apart over the mountains of Haiti and Dominican Republic on Thursday but its remnants still packed rains threatening flash floods and mudslides in the neighboring Caribbean countries.

Los Angeles' restless and ever-changing food scene is hard to define, but it has forced U.S. diners to rethink their concept of what a restaurant is.

The NOAA has increased the number of hurricanes it expects in a new updated forecast for the 2011 hurricane season as Tropical Storm Emily barrels through Haiti.

GM Chevrolet Volt's key competitor in the electric-vehicle market Nissan has launched an app for Android and BlackBerry phones for its all-electric car Leaf.

NASA is tracking the tropical storm Emily as it approaches Haiti and other nations.

According to reports, more than 600,000 homeless Haitians ? driven out of their residences by last year?s devastating earthquake -- are in makeshift camps ahead of Emily?s arrival.

AptiQuant, the company behind a study that claimed people who used Internet Explorer had low IQs, confirmed in a post on its Web site that the report was "indeed a hoax."

The global economy is more sluggish than first thought, government bonds offer no real return, gold is super expensive and stock markets sell off at the slightest setback.

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion introduced five new handsets that run on its new BlackBerry 7 mobile OS, in a bid to regain ground against rivals like Apple.

A woman claiming to be the niece of the mysterious skyjacker dubbed D.B. Cooper, who bailed out of a jetliner with $200,000 in ransom, says she recalls her uncle plotting the sensational caper at a family gathering in 1971.

The world's largest economy was headed toward an unprecedented default, and all Washington wanted to talk about was the manner in which the president had left a room.

A New Orleans jury began deliberating Wednesday after shootings occurred when a dozen officers responded to a radio call that police had been fired on and that the shooters were headed toward the Danziger Bridge, just days after the Hurricane Katrina storm.

RIM released new BlackBerry Bold and BlackBerry Torch smartphone models on Wednesday after a year since its last smartphone release.

As of 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Emily was located at about 145 miles southeast of Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic with maximum sustained winds of 50 miles per hour, or 85 kilometers per hour. Emily is still on a westward movement at a speed of 14 miles per hour, according to the National Weather Service.

The furore over consumer group Choice's mortgage switching campaign may be a "storm in a teacup" according to one broker.

A strengthening Tropical Storm Emily is continues to move westward through the Caribbean inching closer to the islands of Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti where watches and warnings are in effect. The National Hurricane Center said as of 2 p.m. Emily about 215 miles southeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico, moving at 12 miles per hour with maximum sustained winds of 45 miles per hour.