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With the ruling, Google may begin to feel the sclerosis that sets in when the antitrust lawyers arrive.

It is already the longest tennis match in history, and it is still not done. John Isner of the United States and Nicolas Mahut of France fought to a fifth-set standoff, 59-59, after 10 hours of record-setting play in their first-round match at the 2010 Wimbledon championships.

South Africa went out with heads high on Tuesday, despite being the only hosts ever to exit the World Cup's first round, but France headed home in shame and Latin American giants Argentina cruised into the second round.

Germany, France and the UK said Tuesday that they will introduce bank levies to offset the cost of future financial crisis and will urge their counterparts from the Group of 20 industrial and developing nations to do the ...

But with the deflating euro and a rapidly aging population, they may have to make some concessions.

Baby-faced Javier Hernandez and ageless Cuauhtemoc Blanco came off the bench early in the second half and combined for two goals, giving Mexico a clutch 2-0 win over punchless France on Thursday in chilly Polokwane, moving El Tri a giant step closer to a berth in the the second round of the World Cup.

French workers will soon have to stay on the job -- for all of 35 hours a week -- until they are 62.

Thieves steal a work by Picasso and other pictures - a day after a major art theft from a gallery in Paris.

Five paintings, reportedly including a Matisse and a Picasso, were stolen overnight from a Paris museum, the Paris mayor's office said Thursday.

The United States, Russia, Britain, France and China on Wednesday voiced support for making the Middle East a nuclear-arms-free zone, which would mean Israel would have to scrap any atomic bombs it has.