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Wal-Mart Stores Inc’s quarterly profit growth missed Wall Street’s expectations on Tuesday, as the economy continues to weigh on customers at Walmart U.S., by...

So, we should be grateful for the monopoly they hold on wealth, the poisoning of our environment, the way they find a way to...

The movement that started from Spain has reached New York, London, Rome, Brussels, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Seoul and all other parts of the world. It...

After the "Arab Spring" and unrest in Europe, New York's "Occupy Wall Street" movement may be the latest sign of a global, popular backlash...

Anti-Wall Street protests that took shape in New York weeks ago, prompting hundreds of arrests, have spread across the United States with one organizer...

More than 700 anti-Wall Street activists were arrested Saturday in New York amid chaotic scenes on Brooklyn Bridge after the protest movement’s march against...

Stocks skidded 3 percent on Thursday, extending losses for a fourth day as a gloomy outlook from the Federal Reserve and weak data from...

In a bid to force the government for recruiting his son in his place, a retired employee of Education Department has illegally constructed a...

India's democratic credentials do not impress Francis Fukuyama, who two decades ago prophesied the "end of history", as being a catalyst for the country's...

India’s democratic credentials do not impress Francis Fukuyama, who two decades ago prophesied the “end of history,” as being a catalyst for the country’s...

Multi-million dollar plans to reintegrate Taliban fighters into society to help end a decade of war have hit a stalemate in one of Afghanistan’s...

QUETTA - At least seven people, including a woman and children, were wounded in Dera Allayar area of Jaffarabad district when a boundary wall of a house collapsed owing to a heavy downpour on Saturday.
Reportedly, torrential rains hit different parts of Jaffarabad including Dera Allayar area where the boundary wall of a house located at Gott Muhalla Bhutti fell down causing injuries to seven people including a woman and children.
The injured were shifted to a nearby hospital

NEW YORK - US stocks gained after a week of heightened volatility on Friday, but investors were reluctant to make big bets due to turmoil in the Middle East and Japan's nuclear crisis. The S&P and Dow ended lower for the second straight week as volatility spiked.
The two-day rally that ended the week wasn't enough to offset losses early in the week that briefly erased the indexes' 2011 gains. About 9.61 billion shares traded in composite action on Friday, more than average but

JERUSALEM - Israel has removed scaffolding which was limiting access to the Little Western Wall, a key Jewish site in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, residents and officials said on Friday. News of the move was first revealed in the Haaretz newspaper, which said it was geared towards improving access for worshippers to the site, which is considered holy by Jews.
The site is part of the same ancient wall that used to surround the Second Temple, and lies several

JERUSALEM: Israel's cabinet on Sunday approved plans to invest millions of shekels in a five-year project to expand the plaza next to the Western Wall, one of Judaism's holiest sites in Jerusalem's Old City.
The plans to improve access to the site were outlined in a statement from the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu which said it would invest 85 million shekels (23 million dollars, 17 million euros) in the project.
"The aim of the plan is to improve

LAHORE: A low intensity bomb exploded along the wall of Chowki Nawab Town on Raiwind Road in the Sattukatla Police precincts late on Sunday night. Unknown suspects are speculated to have planted a low intensity bomb along the wall of Chowki Nawab Town which went off at about 8:30 pm with a loud sound. No casualties were suffered due to the explosion.
The explosion damaged the wall of the police chowki, located about half kilometer inside from the Main Raiwind Road. Locals

SAN FRANCISCO: Google Inc eased fears that big spending would erode margins as its results blew past Wall Street's targets, and the Web search leader revealed for the first time the strength of its fast developing mobile and online display ad businesses.
Analysts said strong growth across Google's core advertising business led to a 25-percent surge in net revenue in the third quarter, sending its shares 9 percent higher.
"This is the best performance they've had in three