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Oil fell below $82 a barrel on Friday, extending the previous day's losses, as the U.S. dollar held onto gains against the euro amid worries over Greece's debt woes, and a rise in OPEC exports loomed. The dollar's safe-haven status grew…

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc fired new allegations at Barclays Capital Inc on Thursday, saying the British investment bank got a $13 billion "windfall" profit from its deal to buy Lehman's U.S. brokerage in September 2008. In documents…

Mining giant Rio Tinto and China's Chinalco Friday signed a 1.35 billion US dollar deal to develop a huge African iron ore field, renewing close ties after a major deal collapsed last year. Rio said state-owned Chinalco will acquire an…

US Internet giant Google will close its business in China next month and may announce its plans in the coming days, Chinese media reported on Friday, after rows over censorship and hacking. The China Business News quoted an official with…

Asian stocks rose on Friday, led by Japanese exporters and consumer-related shares, with investor expectations of a steady economic recovery helping markets close in on a sixth straight week of gains. U.S. labor and inflation reports…

Google, Intel and Sony are working on Google TV, a platform and service that will funnel search, video, Twitter and other Web applications through set-top boxes and onto televisions. Google TV will leverage a version of the Google Chrome…

Japanese fish dealers on Friday welcomed the rejection of a proposed trade ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna — a prized ingredient of sushi — while urging that existing quotas be more strictly enforced to protect the species from overfishing.…

Hackers have flooded the Internet with virus-tainted spam that targets Facebook's estimated 400 million users in an effort to steal banking passwords and gather other sensitive information. The emails tell recipients that the passwords on…

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) Special Taskforce has embarked on an operation to confiscate musical instruments from some recalcitrant churches and drinking bars whose activities create a high level of noise above the permissible…

IEPER city in Belgium is to establish a waste recycling plant in Wa under its sister city relationship with the Wa Municipality. A representative from the Belgian city would visit Wa in April this year to finalize arrangements and…