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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles said on Saturday that it had named a successor to its chief executive, Sergio Marchionne, who will step down early as a result of complications from recent shoulder surgery.

Facebook said Friday that it has suspended Boston-based analytics firm Crimson Hexagon while it investigates how it collects and shares Facebook and Instagram's user data.

Over 20 Indian-origin people have been sentenced up to 20 years in prison in the US for their involvement in a multimillion-dollar, India-based call centre scam which defrauded thousands of American citizens of hundreds of millions of dollars.

It was the subject of some excitement among the corridors of Number 10, a star-studded reception to thank some of the biggest names in show business for supporting Margaret Thatcher in her election victory.

Jailed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's daughter Maryam has refused to shift to the Sihala Rest House, saying she would prefer staying at the high-security Adiala Jail with her father and husband, according to a media report.

Nasa is preparing to send a probe closer to the Sun than any other spacecraft has ventured, enduring wicked heat while zooming through the solar corona to study this outermost part of the stellar atmosphere that gives rise to the solar wind.

General elections in Pakistan are just three days away. Two successive democratically elected governments have completed their tenures since the 2008 general elections. A third election should have consolidated Pakistan's fragile democratic process. Instead, it is in a shambles: pre-poll rigging, coercion, intimidation and much more. Whatever the results, the outcome of these elections has already been tainted. They have lost all credibility due to the open manipulation by Pakistan's all-powerful military establishment.

Gaza's militant Hamas rulers said on Saturday they had accepted a cease-fire ending a massive Israeli onslaught on militant positions after a soldier was shot dead, once again pulling the sides back from the brink of a full-fledged war.

Pakistan's election authorities have granted broad judicial powers to the powerful military at polling stations during next week's general election, a rare move that has fanned concern among political parties and human rights groups.

At least 14 people were wounded, two of them seriously, in a suspected knife attack on a bus in the northern German city of Luebeck on Friday, the local Luebecker Nachrichten newspaper reported, adding that the attacker had been arrested by the police.