SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Google’s Android software just dodged a $9 billion bullet. A federal jury found Thursday that Google didn’t need permission to use a rival’s programming tools as it built Android – now the world’s leading smartphone operating software and a key part of Google’s multi-billion dollar Internet …

ISE, Japan (AP) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is urging fellow leaders of the Group of Seven advanced economies to avert another global crisis by acting to rescue the faltering global recovery. Abe and his counterparts got down to business Thursday after strolling through the grounds of Ise (Ee-say) …

CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) – The suffering he endured during World War II still haunts 95-year-old Lester Tenney, who has black lung disease from working as a prisoner of war in a Japanese coal mine. The former Army staff sergeant believes President Barack Obama should keep ex-POWs like him and others …

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) – Dying from soldiers’ bullets, the young protester told her father not to lay her soul to rest until democracy reigned in her homeland. It has taken 28 years, but it is done. The time was finally right to perform a funeral ceremony for 16-year-old Win Maw …

LE HAVRE, France (AP) – Thousands of dock workers poured into a public square in the French port city of Le Havre on Thursday, setting off smoke bombs as part of escalating nationwide protests against a labor bill that would loosen protections for French workers. As union activists disrupted fuel …

CAIRO (AP) – A Muslim mob ransacked and torched seven Christian homes in a province south of the Egyptian capital, Cairo, after rumors spread that a Christian man had an affair with a Muslim woman, according to a statement by the local Orthodox Coptic church. Released late Wednesday, it said …

Native village/Country, parent’s background I was born in Amritsar and raised in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. My father was a successful business man and mother is a Housewife Your early education? I did Bachelors of Business Administration (BBA) and Master in Business Administration (MBA), Sales & Marketing being majors When & …

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – The Afghan Taliban confirmed on Wednesday that their leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour was killed in a U.S. drone strike last week and that they have appointed a successor – a scholar known for extremist views who is unlikely to back a peace process with Kabul. The …

JERUSALEM (AP) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached a deal to expand his coalition government on Wednesday by bringing in the ultranationalist Yisrael Beitenu party and appointing its leader Avigdor Lieberman as his new defense minister. The development caps a tumultuous political week that began with Netanyahu negotiating with the …