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Pakistani leaders jousted Wednesday over a multibillion-dollar U.S. humanitarian aid bill that the ruling party praises as a ...

There is no recession for Tiger Woods. Our calculations show that the $10 million bonus Woods earned for the FedEx Cup title nudged him over the $1 billion mark in career earnings. Forbes has been tracking athlete earnings since before Tiger turned pro in 1996.

Under the agency's proposal, institutions would prepay three years' worth of premiums to the fund that insures customer deposits in case of bank failure.

Federal regulators today proposed borrowing $45 billion from the nation's banks to help rebuild the fund that insures customer deposits as an increasing number of failures threaten to drain the fund's reserves.

Apple announced Monday that over 2 billion apps have been downloaded from its App Store since the e-commerce site's launch in July 2008. The company also said that there are now more than 85000 apps available.

Xerox Corp (XRX.N) said it will buy Affiliated Computer Services Inc (ACS.N) in a $6.4 billion cash-and-stock deal that expands the copier company into outsourcing and data management. The deal, priced at a 33.6 percent premium to ...