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The United States accused Iran in the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday of illicit arms deliveries to Lebanese guerrillas, endorsing charges by Israel after it seized a ship in the Mediterranean last week.

A day after the protest by the members of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Lakhowal), the farmers belonging to Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ekta) staged a massive protest dharna and blocked vehicular traffic in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office in Phase I here on Tuesday.

We were led through a door that is usually forbiddingly closed, past a clutch of burly secret service agents, around a corner, and there he was, in a corridor leading to the Oval Office.

Christopher Steiner, Forbes.com
When Andrew Yang launched Manhattan GMAT, a standardized-test preparatory service, he wanted to differentiate himself by snaring experienced instructors who themselves had scored above 700 (out of a possible 800) on the test. The Princeton Review and Kaplan require their coaches to crack just 680 or better.

Maureen Farrell, Forbes.com
Survival is the new success, so the line goes. Many struggling business owners aim merely to make payroll and plug gaps in working capital.

Susan Adams, Forbes.com
If you are anybody's boss, you've probably given out a lot of bad news lately. Layoffs are coming. Anyone who doesn't lose their job will have a much heavier workload. The fourth-quarter numbers are looking bad. Did someone say holiday party? Since there's no budget this year, forget the annual blowout at that upscale restaurant.

THE GLOBALPOST Apologizing for a father's sin When Colombian druglord Pablo Escobar was gunned down in 1993, his teenaged son Juan Pablo declared.

About 9 am Thursday, Maj Nidal M Hasan walked over to see a neighbour in his aging apartment building here on the edge of downtown.

THE CLAIM:A person can pay off a sleep debt by sleeping late on weekendsTHE FACTS:Chronic sleep deprivation is a given for most people.

Investigators today began piecing together how and why they think an Army psychiatrist facing deployment to Afghanistan gunned down dozens of people yesterday at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas, in one of the worst mass shootings ever on an American military base.

Poor air quality, lack of clean water and a high rate of superfund sites make these metros most contaminated.

Meghan Casserly, Forbes.com
Charlie Graham, founder and CEO of Shop It To Me, an online sale-alert e-mail service and Web site, wants to help you make better use of your time, particularly time spent shopping online.

Hana R. Alberts, Forbes.com
Harvard's endowment may have lost 30% of its value, but the university is still on top of the world.

U.S. President Barack Obama was voted in as America's 44th President one year ago, on a balmy evening on Nov 4th, a decision that was hailed by world leaders, global citizens and a country that was reeling under the after effects of the Bush administration.

Twenty-five years after the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in India, the US-based Sikh organisations have moved away from demonstrations to a ?justice awareness campaign?.

Since Sept. 1, there have been nearly 3,000 deaths and 29,000 hospitalizations across America mostly due to the H1N1 virus, better known as the swine flu. The pandemic has been declared a national emergency, with millions of people in search of a potentially life-saving vaccine--and few able to find it.

A group of about 20 armed attackers stole 5,000 children's bicycles from a manufacturing company in Mexico City, after threatening and locking up company workers.

Product placement is old hat. Try weaving Windows 7 into the plot of ''Family Guy'' or Bud Light into an SNL sketch.

Andrea D. Murphy and John J. Ray, Forbes.com
Our 25th annual survey of America’s largest private companies reflects the same turbulence that is rocking the publicly traded firms that make all the headlines.

A former consultant to the FBI believes you can overcome any problem with any supervisor by asking the right questions.