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A military unit from Russia, President Bashar al-Assad's best and last friend, has arrived in Syria, Russian media reported Monday.

Asma al-Assad, the 38-year-old wife of Syrian regime leader Bashir al-Assad and a former investment banker, will likely join 114 other Syrians on a list of sanctioned individuals by the European Union, freezing her assets to preventing shopping, travel and other commerce in foreign countries; meanwhile, reports emerge of Assad's emails to friends where she boasts of the power of the Syrian regime, and that she is the real dictator.

Manohar Aich, the 1952 Mr. Universe international bodybuilding champ, celebrated his 100th birthday with his children, grandchildren and great-great children in Kolkata, India on Sunday.

When it comes to new smartphones and tablets, LTE technology is one of the most up and coming features to hit the mobile market. Rumors and speculations say that devices such as the iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S3 will sport the high-speed Internet connection, but a new smartphone from HTC may bump its way into the competition.

Fabrice Muamba is showing small signs of improvement according to a statement from the midfielder's club Bolton Wanderers. A friend of the soccer star also said that he is speaking minimal words in French and English.

French police officials are now confirming that the same weapon and same scooter were used in all three attacks.

The European Commission is widening its regulatory sweep to include "shadow" banking, heralding new controls over the sprawling and largely unchartered 46 trillion euro ($61 trillion) sector blamed for helping trigger the financial crisis.

The highly anticipated Samsung S2 Ice Cream Sandwich has arrived with updates rolling out in the U.K on Monday.

Despite being under house arrest in England, Wikileaks announced they had found a way for Assange to run, Wikileaks announced via its Twitter page Saturday.

The new and extended trailer shows more of the film's dark moments.

Fabrice Muamba, the young midfielder for England's Bolton Wanderers soccer club, remained in intensive care following a cardiac episode Saturday night.

Samsung Galaxy Nexus and LG Viper are going to be the first LTE smartphones from Sprint. Now the company has planned about the third 4G smartphone - HTC One X, which could hit Sprint shelves under a different name.

The much speculated and highly anticipated third generation iPad from Apple has finally been announced by the company. Though it has been considered as a revolutionary device, it still has to face a tough competition from the other big guns in the arena.

Nicki Minaj has released the tracklist of her upcoming album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (Young Money / Universal) due out for April 3 along with a full list of her UK tour dates.

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart's real-life chemistry may make on-screen love scenes less awkward to perform, but Pattinson has revealed that some episodes of their Twilight romance were scary.

Directors of the U.K. banking-software company accepted a £1.27 billion ($2 billion) cash bid from San Francisco private-equity firm Vista Equity Partners that represents a 6 percent premium to Misys's closing price Friday.

Jason Russell, director of the Invisible Children charity's now-famous video Kony 2012, has become headline fodder after he stripped naked and ran through the busy streets of San Diego screaming You're the devil and other graphic obscenities. With this thrust into the spotlight, everyone wants a peek inside his mind.

The Duchess was in Ipswich on Monday to open a children's hospice.

TNT Express has accepted a higher cash offer of 9.5 euro per share from U.S. rival United Parcel Service, which values the Dutch freight and delivery group at 5.2 billion euros ($6.9 billion).

China has become less dependent on arms imports and, at the same time, has increased the volume of its arms exports, according to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

According to market figures released by research firm IDC, China is bound to overtake the U.S. in smartphone shipments by the end of 2012, becoming the leading market. IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker forecast that China’s smartphone market will climb from 18.2 percent in 2011 to 20.7 percent in 2012, while U.S.’ market would drop from 21.3 to 20.6 percent over the same timeframe.