Apple’s iPad 2 is one of the most attractive gifts this Christmas and New Year shopping season, but it needs to be equipped with some essential apps to show its full potential.

Some of the most fabulous and essential apps available for the second-generation iPad ar as follows:

Heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar Inc. has announced its plans to move some of its production from Japan to North America, where it will open a new manufacturing facility.

Caterpillar, the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, said it decided to move production to bring it closer to its customers.

Omentum which is a layer of fat cells inside the abdomen can play a major role in fuelling the spread of ovarian cancer, according to a laboratory-based research by US scientists.

In the UK ovarian cancer is the fourth leading cause of deaths among women and researchers from the University of Chicago believe the fat cells that make up the omentum provide nutrients that fuel ovarian cancer's growth and spread.

Recent reports from the tinsel town reveal that Kirsten Dunst has received German citizenship. This now makes this beautiful Spiderman actress, the holder of citizenship from two countries, U. S. and Germany.

She is originally from Germany and is 29 years old. She would now be able to shoot in Europe with ease. She is getting closer to her roots, as she revealed in a famous magazine.

It seems that if the internal issues of the European Union were not enough, now America has started a war of words with the EU over the ongoing crisis of euro zone. It was being reported that as President Barack Obama lashed out at the EU to have failed in to warding off the debt crisis, the German Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schauble, didn't spare any harsh words in the same regard.

US's decision on execution of Troy Davis, an Afro-American who had been convicted of killing an off-duty policeman in 1989 i. e. almost two decades ago, has been recently interrupted by Germany.

Germany has called US to stop execution of Troy Davis despite seeing that his case stands weak with so many holes in the case against him. Mark MacPhail was a father-of-two. He was working as a night security guard in Savannah, Georgia, when suddenly a brawl occurred and Davis shot him in his heart and head at point-blank range.

Yesterday, the Chief Financial Markets Regulator approved merging of Deutsche Boerse as well as NYSE Euronext (NYX).

World Bank President Robert Zoellick has notified that the US will continue to witness sluggish economic growth, but the condition of recession will not touch the economy.

He said that the debt crisis in Eurozone will continue to intimidate the positive approach of the investors and will adversely affect the already feeble economic growth.

He said that however, volatility will prevail in the market, but it will not end into recession as it will keep bothering the world economies, and will certainly lower the faith of consumers and the investors.