As expected, Bloomberg, the global financial news and data provider, has won the bidding for BusinessWeek. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but reports say the company is paying up to $5 million and that it has agreed to assume liabilities, including potential severance payments.

The list of 2009 Nobel Prize winners is now complete with Monday’s announcement of Nobel Prize for Economics.Two ceremonies will be conducted in Stockholm and Oslo on December 10 to award the Prizes to the winners of this years Nobel.

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Thousands of people marched on Washington Sunday calling for greater civil rights for gays and lesbians.The National Equality March snaked past the White House and streamed down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol. Many waved rainbow flags or carried signs supporting a wide variety of causes.

United States President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Obama said he was surprised and deeply humbled by the honor, and planned to travel to Oslo to accept the award.

Herta Mueller, a Romanian-born German writer who produced tales of the disenfranchised and fought for free speech, won the 2009 Nobel prize for literature Thursday.

An Italian professor of organic chemistry says he has created a fake Shroud of Turin that indicates the supposed burial cloth of Jesus Christ was also faked.

Shoichi Nakagawa, the former Japanese finance minister who resigned from his post after appearing drunk on TV earlier this year, has been found dead.

At last, South America gets an Olympics! Rio de Janeiro will host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, beating Madrid in the final round of voting after Chicago, backed by a personal visit from President Barack Obama, was eliminated in the first round.

Talk about adding insult to injury. In an untimely turn of events, badly shaken up Philippines will again be hit by another typhoon.

529 people were confirmed dead and 440 were seriously injured as a result of a second devastating earthquake in western Indonesia on Thursday according to The Social Affairs Ministry’s crisis center. A total of 376 deaths occurred in the Padang City, capital of West Sumatra province.

Imaging giant Xerox Corp. has agreed to buy business services provider Affiliated Computer Services Inc. in a cash and stock transaction worth $6.4 billion.