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Prices on oil were held steady on Monday, June 16, as traders think over the implications of Saudi Arabia’s plans.

The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. The Prize was established from Alfred Bernhard Nobel's will on 27 November 1895.

About 2.5 million people became infected with HIV-AIDS in 2007. Over two million people died of the incurable disease last year, Ban Ki-Moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations said. He stressed out that almost 70 percent of all HIV-positive people still have no access to the retroviral therapy.

Apple’s founder and chairman Steve Jobs presented the new iPhone 3G at the Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) conference in San Francisco.

US President George bush tries to save the West from the imminent crisis that may result from the growth of prices on energy sources. With this goal in mind, Bush arrived in the capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana, to discuss the problems on an international level.

An American adoptive grandmother has become a parent to two Russian twins. Phyllis Matthey-Johnson adopted them after her own son and daughter-in-law Robert and Brenda Matthey had been indicted for manslaughter of Viktor, the brother of the twins. She testified at court against her son and his wife and did everything possible to deservedly punish them and deprive them of their adopted children. Now her four own grandchildren hate her.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke threw the weight of the central bank behind Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's efforts to strengthen the dollar after its 10 percent drop over the past year.

The rebranding of Google Custom Search Business Edition now offers enhanced index coverage including documents on public sites that otherwise wouldn't be indexed.

Google Inc. signed a 40-year lease agreement to secure space for a very large office complex. The complex will be built on a research center of the federal government near Google’s headquarter in Silicon Valley.

Every big city dweller dreams of going somewhere to forget about traffic jams, hordes of people and buildings of concrete and glass. A well-known portal AskMen.com made a top ten list of most serene places on Earth where people can find peace and calmness.