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Home Depot also raises its full year forecast

American actor and film producer Leonardo DiCaprio turns 38 today.

Sir Elton John and his partner David Furnish are expecting their second surrogate child.

Grand Theft Auto V, according to Game Informer will feature three playable characters, their unique perspectives colouring Rockstar's fictional LA

Having won £230m in damages earlier this week, American tech firm VirnetX has filed a second lawsuit against Apple, this time regarding the iPhone 5 and iPad mini.

The supermodel says she is head-over-heels in love with her minder, Martin Kristen.

As Athena and Brutus batter the US in superstorm Sandy's wake, it has emerged that extreme weather caused the downfall of ancient Maya.

United and American Airlines in and out of New York have cancelled flights as blizzards warnings are put in place on Eastern seaboard and the west of the country.

Conviction unrelated to film which sparked widespread rioting and led to death of US ambassador Chris Stevens in Libya.

Legal action on behalf of 23 Hyundai and Kia car owners filed in US District Court for Central California.

Apple has been ordered to pay £230m to technology firm VirnetX, after a Texas court ruled against the iPhone maker, saying FaceTime infringed VirnetX's patents.

Jones shot two people before killing himself at Valley Protein processing plant in California.

IB Times looks back at the decisive moments from last night, as Barack Obama comes from behind to take the election.

Kristen Stewart looked radiant and colorful as she made an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in Burbank, California.

Grand Theft Auto V will feature two protagonists according to details leaked from an upcoming edition of Game Informer.

Apple paid 1.9% tax in the UK last year, and today Google, Starbucks and Amazon are to explain their tax payments to a government committee.

China still in full control over some of world’s most important yet limited supply of raw materials and rare minerals.

Lab rats showed signs of resisting effects of meth intoxication, say Scripps Research Institute scientists

Bill Gross, chairman of the world's biggest bond fund, excoriates US politics and policy as he warns of "financial repression"

Suspect in custody after shooting at the Tutor Campus Center on the Southern California University Park leaves one person critically injured in Los Angeles.

With banks being blighted by a number of scandals, will the manipulation of the power markets be the next to break?

Another surfer was was seriously injured by a shark in California after Francisco Javier Solorio was killed by a great white last week.

Californian boy faces 11 years in state custody if judged responsible, but lawyer says defendant 'conditioned to violence' by far-right father.

BBC3 documentary follows gay men in US who say they are being treated to become heterosexual.

The USGS records two aftershocks of 5.8 and 4.8 after the powerful earthquake of 7.7 which hit the coasts of western Canada.

Fossil of a 3.3 million-year-old child shows humans abandoned climbing much later than previously thought.

The San Juan Hills Golf Club course staff believe the leopard shark was plucked from the Pacific Ocean by a sea bird and then dropped as it headed inland with its feast.

Solorio was bitten in his upper torso off the coast of Surf Beach in Lompoc, where Lucas Ransom was killed two years ago.

14-year-old Anais Farnier said to have died after drinking two cans of Monster in 24 hours.

Iron Man confronts his greatest foe, The Mandarin, in third instalment of Marvel comic book superhero movie franchise.