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European markets saw the largest intraday swings in over two years on Friday. The US experienced the largest weekly decline and recovery since 2011 last week.

Wall Street analysts continue to believe Apple stock will rise beyond $100 per share despite the lack of investor excitement over new iPads.

A growing number of restaurants in Australia are limiting the time that patrons could dine in their establishments to just 90 to 120 minutes. The restaurants would only accept the diners if they are to vacating their table after a specified time.

Global property portal Lamudi has listed 5 top tourists destinations in the Philippines which are also known as being close to nature spots which it recommends to people seeking properties in the country.

A Canadian man found dead mouse in McDonald's cup of coffee.

Global markets finished mixed overnight with investors shrugging off earnings results from Google, Goldman Sachs and Netflix together with better than expected economic news on jobless claims and industrial production. Investors paid more attention to comments by James Bullard (non-voting member of the FOMC). He said the Fed should consider delaying the end of its stimulus program with recent sharpmarket moves and falling inflation two main reasons.

France will build at least eight nuclear reactors in South Africa.

An outbreak of the Ebola virus in the U.S. in deemed unlikely unless it mutates.

The Fed can't stay out of the market at the moment. St Louis President Jamie Bullard has done a complete about-face by calling for the Fed to hold off on unwinding the asset purchase program at the end of the month.

In US economic data, the Philadelphia Fed business activity index fell from 22.5 to 20.7 in October. Across the sub-indices new orders and prices paid lifted while employment eased. The NAHB Housing market index fell from 59 to 54 in October - the first decline in five months and suggested moderation in the pace of new construction. US industrial production rose by 1% in September, well above forecasts. Strength in mining and utilities drove the result. US jobless claims fell 23,000 to 264,000 l...

The CDC may need to rework some of its guidelines after the dreaded west African Ebola virus has successfully infected its second American victim right inside the U.S. homeland.

It seems Catholic bishops arent softening their stand yet towards gays.

Never step into a foreign country without knowing these phrases.

Heidi Montag's ad was dumped after Facebook users complained.

Having started Wednesday on the front foot, trading higher from the opening bell Australian shares consolidated early gains by finishing off the best levels of the day. The ASX 200 finished the session ahead by 38 points or 0.73%. At the best levels of the day the index was ahead by 46 points. The lows of the Wednesday were seen in opening trade when the market was down by 1 point.

Germany is one of the biggest economies in Europe and new data suggests that the country is at the risk of diving into a recession.

Canada has started the human clinical trials of the vaccine it developed against Ebola.

Two technology giants have upped the game insofar as retaining their employees are concerned. Apple and Facebook are offering their female workers up to $20,000 to have their eggs frozen so they could keep their engagement with their companies while tapping science to ensure they could still bear children when they decide to later.

Guerrilla groups in Syria are pouncing on the ISIS jihadi fighters.

US equities remained choppy as investors juggled various factors, including a raft of key earnings. JP Morgan, Citigroup and Wells Fargo reported, with the dominant theme a pick-up in trading revenue. Earnings were mixed and didn't really give a good picture of what to expect from Q3 earnings. Earnings that enjoyed the biggest positive reaction were Citigroup and Intel. Intel reported after-market and impressed, resulting in a 2.8% rise in its shares.

After hitting record-low iron ore prices in the international market, there are indicators that the market has bottomed out. On late Monday, price of the key steelmaking ingredient went up 4 per cent, logging its largest one-day gain in seven months.

A new model of a Japanese love doll is the toast of bachelor parties because the plaything also doubles as a drink dispenser. It comes, however, with a high price tag of $5,000.

China has developed a vaccine that could potentially save and cure Ebola-stricken patients.

Rating agency Standard & Poor's downgraded on Monday Finland's credit rating to AA+ from AAA over concerns that the pace of its economic growth is slower. The next day, Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb blamed American tech giant Apple for the economic woes of the nation.

European shares recovered in late trade on Tuesday, after hitting an eight-month low earlier in the session. The better earnings results out of the US and rally in US equities prompted the turnaround. Earlier concerns about euro zone growth weighed on markets. The German ZEW monthly survey of economic sentiment fell for a 10th straight month to minus 3.6, the weakest result in almost two years. The FTSEurofirst 300 index rose by 0.1% while the UK FTSE gained 0.4% and the German Dax lifted by 0.2...

Hong Kong and Singapore are the top two countries in this year's annual index of the world's freest economies.

Local shares posted one of their better gains of the year today with the All Ordinaries Index (XAO) rising by 1 per cent or 50.9pts to 5204. Despite the improvement, the market's downtrend remains firmly in place with losses of over 8 per cent recorded since the start of September. The next support level for the ASX 200 is around 5070.0.

Caltex Australia finally closed on Tuesday its 58-year-old oil refinery in Kurnell, Sydney. The oil and gas giant now runs the facility as a fuel import terminal. It spend $270 million over two years to convert the plant.

The new Apple Pay system will launch in at least 18 retail outlets on Saturday, said a leaked memo from Walgreens and posted by MacRumors.