Suicide Car Bomber Rams Hospital
A suicide bomber has rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a hospital, killing 11 people in north-west Pakistan, say police. Nearly 20 people were injured by the blast in the Shia Muslim-dominat...
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A suicide bomber has rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a hospital, killing 11 people in north-west Pakistan, say police. Nearly 20 people were injured by the blast in the Shia Muslim-dominat...
Pro-Wikileak activists have abandoned plans to bring down the website of online retailer Amazon, and switched back to targeting PayPal. The group Anonymous had pledged to attack the site at 1600 G...
NASA failed to delete sensitive data on computers and hard drives before selling the equipment as part of its plan to end the Space Shuttle program, an audit released on shows. NASA is getting rid...
A group of former WikiLeaks collaborators who quit the project are to launch a new campaigning site next week to protest against its founder, a Swedish newspaper said. Respected daily Dagens Nyhe...
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has become one of the latest billionaires to pledge to give away the majority of his wealth. He is one of 17 new people to support a group, founded by Bill Gat...
New York may be known as the city that never sleeps, but Tokyo business people get less time in the sack than their New York peers -- and also those in Paris, Stockholm and Shanghai. According to ...
Users of Google's Android phones, such as Samsung's Galaxy S, use more data services than those with other smartphones, threatening to choke wireless network capacity, an industry study showed. Th...
Google has delayed a much anticipated branded laptop powered by its Chrome operating system until next year. Instead of a Chrome OS device for general release, Google announced a pilot programme a...
Google hopes to write itself a substantial chapter in the digital books story with the launch of its own store. Google eBooks, formerly known as Google Editions, launches in the US on 6 December. ...
Researchers studying the health effects of cellphones say they have found evidence that when pregnant women use them regularly, their children are more likely to have behavioral problems. The stud...
Three Russian satellites have failed to enter orbit after they were launched on a rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Russian aerospace experts said the satellites and the upper sta...
Facebook is redesigning the profile pages of its 500 million-plus users to make it more of a reflection of their real lives and emphasize one of the site's most popular features, photos. Facebook...
A critical breakthrough has been made in efforts to save the giant panda, one that could kick-start attempts to reintroduce the animals to the wild. Conservationists say they have perfected the di...
Senior Chinese figures were behind the hacking of Google earlier this year which forced the search engine to quit the country, leaked US cables suggest. One cable, released by whistle-blowing site...
Uncertainty about a diagnosis causes more anxiety and can be more stressful than actually knowing that you have a serious illness, researchers reported here at the 2010 annual meeting of the Radiolo...
The Italian postal police blocked a Facebook page, used by a baby-gang to bully and harass one of their classmates, according to a report by China's Xinhua news agency. The bullies had created a ...
Temperatures reached record levels in several regions during 2010, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says, confirming the year is likely to be among the warmest three on record. Parts of...
Having multiple miscarriages increases the risk of a heart attack later in life, according to researchers. The German study, published in the journal Heart, found that women who had more than thre...
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) said that it is pulling millions of bottles of antacids from shelves because they don't list the alcohol content of flavoring agents, reports China's Xinhua news agency. T...
Google Inc. has acknowledged that it trespassed when it took a photo of a Pittsburgh-area house for its Street View service, but will pay only $1 in damages to a couple who sued. U.S. District Mag...
A surge in demand for the latest smartphones has taken the industry by surprise and left it facing a shortage in the key end-of-year holiday sales season, a chief of Acer's cellphone unit said. "T...
The United Nations urged a global phase-out of old-style lightbulbs and a switch to low-energy lighting that it said would save billions of dollars and combat climate change. About 40 countries a...
U.S. health officials are cautioning new parents about sharing breast milk as a growing number of women are using social networking and other websites to share their milk instead of turning to infan...
Some UFO sightings could be explained by ball lightning and other atmospheric phenomena, claims Australian astrophysicist Stephen Hughes. The scientist has made a detailed study of an unusual even...
The European Commission has launched an investigation into Google after other search engines complained that the firm had abused its dominant position. The body said it would look into whether the...
The World Health Organisation has recently released the results of health surveys on world obesity, and the study showed Pacific Island countries make up most of the top 10 list of the world's fatte...