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©REUTERS/Brendan McDermid Apple is most valuable company ever at $622 bn Apple on Monday dethroned longtime rival Microsoft as the most valuable company in history based on the value of its stock, which climbed to around $622 billion.
22 August 2012
©REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque FBI probes Republicans' drunken Israel trip The FBI has investigated an incident that saw at least one Republican congressman swim naked at a drinking party in Israel last year attended by top leadership staff, Politico reported Sunday.
21 August 2012
Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak. ©REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun Israeli media buzz on attacking Iran aims to pressure US A high-volume public debate in Israel over a possible imminent military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities is designed to pressure Washington to back its ally more firmly.
21 August 2012
Todd Akin. Photo courtesy of rawstory.com Furor over Republican's 'legitimate rape' comment A Republican senatorial candidate triggered a firestorm of criticism Sunday, including a rebuff from Mitt Romney's campaign, after he suggested that "legitimate rape" rarely causes pregnancy.
21 August 2012
'Top Gun' director Tony Scott jumps to his death Prominent Hollywood film director Tony Scott, whose signature works included "Top Gun," jumped to his death from a bridge in San Pedro, California.
20 August 2012
Holed-up Assange tells Obama to end WikiLeaks 'witchhunt' WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange urged President Barack Obama to end the US "witchhunt" against his whistleblowing website, speaking from Ecuador's London embassy.
20 August 2012
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Martin Dempsey. ©REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque Insiders focus of US military chief's Afghan trip The top US military officer Martin Dempsey flew Sunday to Afghanistan to hold talks with senior commanders amid a spate of attacks by Afghan soldiers on their NATO counterparts.
20 August 2012
Nyad braves night of jellyfish on Cuba-Florida swim US endurance swimmer Diana Nyad pressed on Sunday in her bid to swim from Cuba to Florida after a night of being swarmed and stung by jellyfish as she paddling through choppy seas.
20 August 2012
Arizona's Governor Janet Brewer. Photo courtesy of vnnforum.com Arizona governor limits immigrant benefits On the day undocumented migrants lined up across the US to apply for deportation deferrals, Arizona's governor ordered state agencies to deny them driver's licenses and other benefits.
20 August 2012
Photo courtesy of wallpapers.brothersoft.com 'Expendables 2' guns to top of N. America box office All-star action romp "The Expendables 2" opened on top at the North American box office this week, pushing another sequel, "The Bourne Legacy," off the summit.
20 August 2012
Nidal Hasan, charged with killing 13 people and wounding 31. ©REUTERS US army judge declines Fort Hood shooter's guilty plea A US soldier accused of killing 13 people at a Texas army base on Wednesday tried to plead guilty, but the judge refused to accept it and the trial was unexpectedly adjourned until next week.
20 August 2012
Limbless Frenchman swims between US, Russian islands Quadruple amputee Philippe Croizon swam between islands in the icy Bering Strait Friday to cross from America to Asia in the final part of a quest to link all continents.
19 August 2012
A new family of spiders, named Trogloaptor. Photo courtesy focus-fen.net  New spider family found in US caves A team of amateur cave explorers and arachnologists has found a new family of spiders in caves and old-growth redwood forests in Oregon and California.
19 August 2012
Photo courtesy of phoeniciafoods.com US men prefer beer, women love wine US men like to drink beer, though wine is the beverage of choice for women and older adults, a poll showed Friday.
19 August 2012
Australia 'preparing' for Assange extradition to US Australia confirmed Saturday that its diplomatic post in Washington had been preparing for Julian Assange's possible extradition to the US but played it down as "contingency planning".
19 August 2012
Arrests, breasts, chainsaws: Punk world backs Pussy Riot A topless Ukrainian feminist felled a cross with a chainsaw, balaclava-clad New Yorkers braved arrest to picket an Orthodox church and Bulgarian punks re-decorated a war memorial.
18 August 2012
Floyd Lee Corkins. Photo courtesy of myfoxdc.com US Christian lobby blames law center over shooting A US Christian conservative lobbying group on Thursday accused a civil rights organization of provoking the man who allegedly shot a security guard in its Washington headquarters.
18 August 2012
Mars rover takes 'cool' detour: NASA The US space agency NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will make a wide detour to explore a geographical hot spot on Mars because "it looks cool".
18 August 2012
Photo courtesy of navajocountydrugproject.com Well-wishers donate $4.4 mn to US cinema shooting victims Well-wishers from the US and around the world have donated $4.4 million to a fund for the victims of a mass shooting at a US movie theater.
18 August 2012
Photo courtesy of fanpop.com 'Hunger Games' dethrone Potter at Amazon.com Amazon.com on Friday announced that "The Hunger Games" trilogy has replaced the "Harry Potter" saga as the online retail giant's best-selling series of books.
18 August 2012

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