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Scottish singer Susan Boyle has been given three different entries in the new Guinness World Records book. Her debut album I Dreamed A Dream was the fastest selling album by a UK female and also had the most successful first week's sales…

LG Electronics, the world's third-biggest mobile phone maker, has replaced its chief executive after record losses at its handset business. Nam Yong will be replaced by Koo Bon-joon, the brother of the chairman of parent company LG…

Google is the undisputed king of search in the United States, but the question remains, who's number two? Yahoo! has long held that position but Microsoft has been creeping up and may even have leapfrogged the Sunnyvale, California,…

A pressure test  on the blown-out BP well in the Gulf of Mexico was set to be finished early Sunday, the last step needed before the runaway well can finally be declared dead. There was no word from company or government officials on…

Facebook has launched its location-based Places service in the UK. It allows people to "check in" wherever they are and see who among their friends and other Facebook users is - or has been - at the same location. The service also lists…

Next month, governments from 193 countries around the world will gather in Nagoya, Japan to make three key decisions that will determine whether current and future generations will continue to benefit from nature’s riches. The 193…

Gold hit a record high on Friday for the third time this week as poor U.S. consumer confidence and market talk of more quantitative easing helped the alternative asset score its biggest weekly gain since May. The metal received a boost…

Toyota Motor Corp. has quietly settled a high-profile lawsuit over a fatal crash near San Diego last year that drew national attention to sudden acceleration in its vehicles and led to massive recalls and an unprecedented apology from its…

The biggest airline in the world will have the United name, Continental's globe logo and potentially far-reaching effects on air travel. Shareholders who approved combining the two companies Friday hope the new airline attracts more…

Consumers are still at least "a couple of years" away from widely using their smartphones to make payments, despite technology that is already available, a MasterCard Inc senior executive told Reuters on Friday. Major banks, mobile phone…