According to a report, the National Research Council concluded that subsidies towards greenhouse gases reduction had little to no effect.

"R.I.P.D" is the latest movie to suffer terrible ticket sales in the box office, reports said.

A Samsung-FBI deal was coming to an emminent close, said sources. Samsung neared the closing of a deal with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

A limited number of Palestinian prisoners were released by Israel today. According to a minister from Israel, the country agreed to release a limited number of Palestinian prisoners as a gesture of goodwill to Palestine.

Police started the investigation against Kanye West's alleged battery of a camera man. "You're trying to get me in trouble, so I'll have to pay you, like, $250,000," said rapper Kanye West to a camera man before lunging at him outside the Los Angeles Airport last July 12.

US federal prosecutors revive a 30 year old law to prosecute Wall Street banks that sold toxic loans in 2008.

SEC's persistence to pursue the case against Fabrice Tourre, Goldman Sachs' junior salesman, may backfire.

In a radio interview, actress Rae Dawn Chong called the self-made multimillionaire Oprah Winfrey "a total b----."

The production of next-gen Chevrolet Cruze will be delayed by a year after sources familiar with the deal said that it's more likely to start in December 2015.

The shares of General Electric have reached its highest level since the financial crisis of 2008. General Electric (GE) shares were at their highest level since 2008.

Analysts predict a bad performance from Apple in its third quarter earnings report. With a new product cycle currently in Apple's pipeline, strengthened expectations by consumers will push the company's stocks to even greater lengths, analysts speculated.

Greek workers took to the streets their opposition over the proposed plan to retrench state workers.

The credit rating of “AAA” of the US was affirmed by Moody. Moody's Investor Services affirmed the United States' credit rating of AAA. The main reason for the affirmation was a shrinking budget deficit.

Consumer inflation was recorded at 0.5% last June, a figure that exceeded economists projections to reach about 0.3%.

Spanish lender BBVA agrees to sell its Panama unit for US $646 million in favor of Colombia’s second biggest banking conglomerate.

Police said that a woman died while riding the Texas Giant roller coaster at Six Flags over Texas. A woman died yesterday after falling from the Texas Giant roller coaster at the Six Flags Over Texas in the city of Arlington, the theme park officials said in a statement.

Visco of ECB stressed the importance of communication in an exit strategy. Ignazio Visco, a member of the European Central Bank Governing Council, stated that central banks needed to work on improving communication when it comes to exiting from an unprecedented monetary policy.

After reports of Apple's buyout of HopStop.com, another startup was acquired by the tech giant.

Phone snatching reports have increased in major cities such as London, San Francisco and New York. Increased incidents of phone snatching and thievery in key cities of London, New York and San Francisco prompted the cities' officials to pressure Apple to create a "kill switch".

Batista's worth went down 74% after losing more than US$30 billion. The richest man in Brazil, Eike Batista, saw his worth go down 74% this year.

Amidst the fall of their city, Detroit's sports teams have a positive outlook. Despite the city of Detroit's filing for bankruptcy, the Detroit Red Wings are looking optimistic.

Passengers of Asiana Airlines that crashed while landing on July 6 in San Francisco have filed a petition against Boeing Co.

Apple bought HopStop.com today. HopStop. com, an upstart application, was bought by tech giant Apple today. A spokesperson from Apple confirmed the acquisition, according to Tech Crunch's Anthony Ha.

Fannie and Freddie are not making much progress The revamp of Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FMCC) was not making much, or any, progress.

Japan was a winner when it came to how its stocks performed on the market. Japanese stocks were performing well. In fact, it topped in terms of gains this year in comparison to 24 major developed equity markets.

The Conjuring is set to earn almost US$30 million after a successful first week of showing in the theaters.

Financial firms' physical commodity trading may come to an halt as the Fed reconsiders its policy on this.

European government bonds advanced after Fed Chairman subdued issues concerning the US stimulus. Government bonds in Europe rose after US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S.

Swedbank's rating outlook was raised to stable by S&P. Standard & Poor's Ratings Services (S&P) raised the credit rating outlook of Swedbank AB to stable.

Hutchison Whampoa Limited conducts strategic review for the ParknShop sale. Hutchison Whampoa Limited announced that they are in the midst of conducting a strategic review on the possible sale of its Hong Kong supermarket chain ParknShop.