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NEW YORK (Reuters) - While James Cameron’s 3D sci-fi epic “Avatar” took the box office by storm instantly, the road to success will be much longer for Best Buy Co Inc, which is making a big bet on 3D televisions this year.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - OnLive is set to launch its “cloud-based” video game service in June, as the closely watched start-up looks to challenge home console heavyweights with the promise of on-demand gaming.

The new standards, which experts said could well be adopted by a majority of states, would replace the nation’s checkerboard of locally written standards.

A blonde, blue-eyed, diminutive American woman using the nom de guerre ‘Jihad Jane’ has been revealed as an alleged terrorist who plotted to murder the Swedish artist vilified by Muslims because of his drawings of the Prophet Muhammad.

Hamtramck, Mich., settled a long-running housing discrimination suit by offering homes to the descendants of black residents forced off their property in the 1950s and ’60s.

ABU DHABI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google expects an outcome soon from its talks with China over a censorship and hacking dispute, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday.

Carla Bruni, the singer-wife of President Sarkozy, vouched for the fidelity of her husband today after some foreign media reported French internet gossip suggesting that their marriage was in difficulty.

A Swedish cartoonist whose controversial image of the Prophet Muhammad led to a series of death threats said today that he had secured his property with a homemade panic room and booby-trapped artwork.

The UN Secretary-General asks the world’s leading science academies to review the UN’s climate science body.

Israel comes under growing international pressure following its approval of new building in occupied East Jerusalem.