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Invesco Ltd. said Monday it would acquire the retail asset management business of Wall Street giant Morgan Stanley, including Van Kampen Investments, for cash and stock valued at $1.5 billion. (IVZ) (MS)

Apple's profits and sales streaked past Wall Street forecasts as iPhone and Mac sales hit quarterly records, sending its shares rocketing to all-time highs on Monday.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay -- Uruguay's Supreme Court on Monday declared unconstitutional a law that has provided amnesty to military officials accused of murders, disappearances and other human rights violations during the country's dictatorship.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc's profits and sales streaked past Wall Street forecasts as iPhone and Mac sales hit quarterly records, sending its shares rocketing to all-time highs on Monday.

. California company posts $1.67bn (£1bn) quarterly profits. Sales near $10bn (£6bn)Apple surprised Wall Street today by announcing record-breaking sales and profits, as the Californian technology company continues to defy the recession.Thanks to the highest ever sales of its iPhone handsets and Mac computers, Apple posted profit of $1.67bn (£1bn) for the last three months based on sales of almost $10bn (£6bn). That marks a 46% increase in profit over the same period last year, when the company made $1.14bn (£695m) on revenues of $7.9bn (£4.8bn).Chief executive Steve Jobs - who returned to the company earlier this summer after a six-month break to undergo a liver transplant - said he was 'thrilled' with the results and had more plans to wow customers in the near future.'We've got a very strong lineup for the holiday season and some really great new products in the pipeline for 2010,' he said. Those products are rumoured to include a new touchscreen computer that the company hopes can c

Joe Saenz -- wanted in connection with four murders, a kidnapping and a rape -- had eluded authorities for so long, they thought he might be dead. But the emergence of a videotaped killing in California, they said, proved that he was still out there. Saenz is the newest addition to the FBI's Most Wanted list, after three fugitives on the list were recently caught.

An ordinance passed 25 years ago was designed to outlaw barkers. But until recently it's been thinly enforced.

ATLANTA, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Narconon of Georgia has, for the past several years, seen a rapidly rising trend in prescription drug abuse. According to the 2006 National Survey on Drug Use and Health conducted by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, every day 2,500 youngsters age 12 to 17 try a painkiller for the first time and prescription drugs are more abused by teens than any illicit street drug, except for marijuana.

Police and rescuer workers remove bodies from the apartment in Rishon LeZion, Israel. Photo: JTA JERUSALEM — The six members of an Israeli family murdered in their Rishon LeZion home on the week...

Three people have now died after attending a new age, spiritual retreat in Sedona, Arizona. As Ben Tracy reports, authorities have labeled their deaths 'homicides.'