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Cellphones, Cameras, Computers and more. Looking to cut down its main competition and most high profile copycat in the growing market for social gaming, Hasbro has sued the two Indian brothers behind the popular Web game Scrabulous, which has more than half a million regular users on the social network Facebook.

Peanut butter naturally leads to jelly, a 5-year-old with the remote inherently leads to "Hannah Montana" and summer unavoidably leads to shenanigans.

Reuters - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a civil lawsuit on Thursday against UBS AG , accusing the Swiss bank of deceptively steering customers into auction-rate securities that this year became impossible to sell amid the credit crunch.

Caxito, 07/24 - Angola`s Agriculture and Rural Development Minister, Pedro Canga, on Thursday inaugurated in Caxito city, northern Bengo province, the premises of the Institute of Agrarian Development (IDA), under the Public Investments Programme (PIP).

"American Teen" -- Nanette Burstein's documentary doesn't tell you anything you didn't already know about high school. It can be a rough time, even if you're pretty and popular. Kids divide themselves into cliques. They can be mean to each other.

Capsule reviews of films opening this week: "American Teen" - Nanette Burstein's documentary doesn't tell you anything you didn't already know about high school. It can be a rough time, even if you're pretty and popular. Kids divide themselves into cliques. They can be mean to each other. Pressure can come from all sides - from parents, coaches, fellow students and mostly from within. But the ...

AP - A.J. Burnett registered his 11th victory a day after he pitched, and Toronto used a strong performance by its bullpen to beat the Baltimore Orioles 5-1 Thursday in the completion of a suspended game.

AP - With Alison Krauss touring this summer with Robert Plant, the guys in her band, Union Station, had some time to kill, like enough to read biographies of all 43 presidents and maybe paint their houses and their neighbors' houses, too.

Reuters - Microsoft Corp will announce plans to expand its relationship with online social network Facebook to provide web search and search advertising, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday.