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Shares of Talbots slumped Friday as the women's retailer was left looking for a new suitor after Sycamore Partners opted not to pursue a takeover.

The "American Idol" finale audience slumped to a record low, but the show's newly crowned champion Phillip Phillips hit No 1 on iTunes.

The ‘American Idol’ finale audience slumped to a record low, but the show’s newly crowned champion Phillip Phillips hit No.1 on iTunes with his first single.  

Dairy Crest has slumped to its first loss since it was privatised more than two decades ago, as it wrote off the value of its dairies.

Police say the child was found drunk and near-unconscious last Friday night by officers on patrol, before being taken to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, pictured.

The Indian rupee slumped to a new record low of 56 to the dollar on Wednesday weighed down by global risk aversion.

In the three days since his wedding – held the day after Facebook’s £65billion flotation on the stock market – the firm’s value has slumped by more than £12billion.

First time accepted submitter gtirloni writes "Just days after wrapping up the biggest initial public offering in Silicon Valley history, shares of Facebook slumped 6% and tumbled below their issue price on Monday, a troubling signal for the newly-public social network. Facebook broke below its $38-a-share issue IPO price in the wake of a highly-anticipated offering that raised more than $16 bi...

FACEBOOK shares slumped more than 10 per cent in early action today, well below the IPO price of $38 a share.

Maybe you’re among the millions who’ve watched and forwarded this video of an unresponsive 94-year-old with dementia, slumped in his wheelchair at a nursing home in Brooklyn. But when a staff member puts earphones in place and clicks on an iPod loaded with favorite hymns, he awakens, moving to the music, humming along.Read More...

BRITISH No 1 slumped out of the Rome Masters — and said he had a back problem to fix

The rupee slumped to a record low against the dollar on Wednesday as risk aversion in global markets added pressure on a currency already under fire from the country's current account and fiscal deficits.

Binge drinking has reached crisis levels in Britain, health experts say, costing the cash-strapped National Health Service US$4.4 billion a year, including the cost of hospital admissions related to booze-fueled violence and longer-term health problems.

LONDON (AP) -- The girls slumped in wheelchairs look barely conscious, their blond heads lolling above the plastic vomit bags tied like bibs around their necks....

A year after Los Indignados first occupied plazas across Spain, the group returned to revive its protests as Spain slumped into a second recession and unemployment threatened to rise beyond a staggering 25 per cent.

Between 1405 and 1433, Ming emperor Zhu Di despatched Admiral Zheng He on seven naval expeditions with the largest ships then known to mankind. These ranged far and wide and brought back treasure, strange animals and knowledge of the world’s peripheries to the Middle Kingdom. But Chinese court politics, a twisted battle between palace eunuchs and court mandarins, discontinued these voyages and,...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Shares in Sony Corp slumped more than 7 percent to near 32-year lows, as investors doubted the Japanese consumer electronics giant has a strategy to fix its loss-making TV business and compete in the smartphone market against Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics.

WEEKLY magazine sales slumped again in the March quarter and readership of weekly and monthly titles also declined, new data shows.

China's overseas steel orders slumped in April, and the situation will worsen further this month because of the gloomy global economy, analysts said.

Outside of Chicago, nearly 800 very vocal Caterpillar workers are on strike. Meanwhile, U.S. job growth slumped in April as employers slowed hiring.

Ashley Robinson’s slumped shoulders told the story better than any words she was able to muster. A day removed from going through Navy SEAL-style workouts as a team-building exercise, one of the newest Mystics was in the midst of her first two-a-day practice with Washington and the eight-year veteran could tell that her body had broken down. Read full article >>

WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. job growth slumped in April for a second straight month. It pointed to a steadily growing but still sluggish economy that could tighten the presidential race....

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Research In Motion Ltd stock slumped again on Wednesday, even as the company said it was close to hiring a marketing boss to fashion a unified message for the next-generation BlackBerry that will likely determine its future.

SILVER-medallist found slumped on the floor after finishing a pool session with teammates. Attempts to revive him failed.

Liverpool, who made nine changes to the team in their last game before the FA Cup final with Chelsea at the weekend, slumped to a 1-0 home defeat by Fulham in the Premier League on Tuesday.

(Reuters) - Chinese solar firm LDK Solar Co Ltd slumped to a third consecutive quarterly loss as weak demand and rapidly declining average selling prices hurt the company's revenue and margins.

Property prices in Abu Dhabi have slumped and the biggest real estate company has had to be bailed out by the government.

Sterling retreated from a seven-month high against the dollar and fell against the euro after official data showed the UK economy had slumped back into recession.

(Reuters) - Kansas City's inability to win at home was exposed further by the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday as the hapless Royals slumped to an 11th straight defeat with a 4-1 loss to the visitors.

Support for Labour in Britain has reached its highest level in nine years as backing for the Conservatives has slumped dramatically, according to a poll published last night.

The Reds have won the League Cup and will contest the FA Cup final in May after beating Everton but have slumped below their Merseyside rivals in the Premier League table.

BUENOS AIRES, April 18 (Reuters) - Shares of Argentina's leading energy company YPF slumped 23 percent on Wednesday after officials said the government would not pay majority holder Repsol what it...

NBC topped Monday, despite new lows for The Voice and Smash.The Voice dropped 10 percent, drawing 9.9 million and a 3.6 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, to hit a season low, while Smash (5.9 million, 1.9) slumped to a series low

Cassandra Raymond (pictured) from Penzance in Cornwall was found slumped in a car by her partner of eight years Daniel Parr after their relationship broke down following her cheating revelation, an inquest in Truro heard.

  The slayings of two USC graduate students early Wednesday about a mile from the campus has shaken the university as police swarmed the area looking for the killer. One of the victims, a man in his 20s, attempted to run for help after being shot but never made it. He was found collapsed on a porch, police said. The other victim, a woman in her 20s, wa...

Audio recordings have revealed how an 80-year-old grandmother without a pilot's licence calmly and cool-headedly landed a light aircraft with one engine and virtually no fuel as her husband lay slumped from a fatal heart attack next to her.

Shares are now half off, but no one seems to be buying.

EUROPEAN stockmarkets slumped overnight, hit by yet more signs of recession in Europe as the ECB kept interest rates at an historic low.

APPROVALS for new homes slumped by 8 per cent in February, dragged down by a collapse in planned construction in NSW.

Zinc has slumped 20% from last year's highs, under pressure from ample mine supply and a slowing Chinese economy. But a sea change is brewing.

Credit Suisse says it cut the total compensation for its chief executive, Brady Dougan, by 55% in 2011 after the bank's profit slumped.

New Zealand's batting woes against South Africa continued as they slumped to 65 for four at stumps on day two of the second Test in Hamilton.

Once synonymous with the British night out, sales of lager have slumped. Why is the UK going off its favourite beer?

India's economic growth slumped to a near 3-year low of 6.1 percent in the quarter ended December.

NEW YORK, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Fortress Investment Group's quarterly profit slumped as its hedge funds struggled to make gains in last year's volatile global markets, though in some good news for...

The largest Swiss bank said fourth-quarter profit slumped as its wealth management unit failed to make up for a loss in investment banking.

The number of paperback books sold in the UK has slumped dramatically since Christmas thanks to the increasing popularity of e-readers such as the Kindle.

Tells court several colleagues manipulated records on mortgage-backed securities when real estate market slumped

LIVERPOOL slumped to a humiliating defeat at relegation strugglers Bolton

HOMETOWN hero Samantha Stosur has slumped to a stunning first-round exit from the Australian Open.

China's economic growth slowed at the end of last year, as exports slumped and government restraints took some steam out of the booming real estate market.

Bath's disappointing Heineken Cup campaign continues as they slumped to their fourth defeat in five matches.

Soccer:Mark Hughes was today confirmed as QPR’s new manager after signing a two-and-a-half-year contract with the west London club. The 48-year-old succeeded Neil Warnock, who lost his job on Sunday night after Rangers slumped to within a point of the Premier League relegation zone.

German industrial orders slumped in November by the most since the height of the financial crisis nearly three years ago, prompted by a sharp drop in demand from outside the euro zone.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China remained the world's biggest IPO market in 2011, even as total funds raised slumped from the previous year due to global economic uncertainty, undercoring the shift of...

Shares and the euro will likely face more turmoil in 2012, after a year in which markets and the currency slumped on fears over the debt crisis.

Europe's market in carbon emissions is hoping for outside help after a year in which prices slumped to record lows, savaging claims that trading in CO2 brakes the rise of dangerous greenhouse gases.

At the dawn of 2011, things weren’t looking so good for Chuck Berry. He was in Chicago, playing a New Year’s Day show that concertgoers described as rambling and out of tune. About an hour into the event, Berry slumped forward onto a keyboard and was . . . (Subscription required.)

CAIRO — The housewives and breadwinners stepping out of a Cairo supermarket with bags of groceries agreed on one thing. “The prices are very high,” said Sabah Fehmi, 58. “The economy has been very bad after the revolution.” One after another, her fellow shoppers one afternoon this month in Nasr City complained about how food prices have risen since the 18-day winter uprising that toppled presid...

AUCKLAND (AFP) - Pakistan slumped to their fourth Champions Trophy loss in five matches with a 5-0 mauling from Germany Saturday, leaving the Green Shirts in a fight with South Korea to avoid the wooden spoon. In the other Pool D match, the Koreans squandered a 2-0 lead to go… Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story

PARIS (AFP) - English Premier League superpowers Manchester United and Manchester City crashed out of the Champions League on Wednesday as French side Lyon achieved a seven-goal miracle to reach the last 16.United, the European champions in 1968, 1999 and 2008, slumped to a shock 2-1 defeat at Basel, a defeat which allowed the Swiss champions to go through from Group C with Benfica.City defeate...

World stocks hit their lowest in six weeks today and crude prices fell after and manufacturing in regional heavyweight Germany contracted for a second straight month in November, and at a faster rate, as export demand slumped.

BUS ÉIREANN is investigating an incident on a Limerick-Dublin bus last week in which it is claimed a passenger brought the vehicle to a stop after the driver went unconscious at the steering wheel.