Business networking site LinkedIn has acquired Rapportive, a Gmail add-on that provides information about your social contacts as you e-mail them. The deal was reportedly already in place by Dec. 8, but Rapportive confirmed the acquisition on Wednesday on its company blog.
Cherie Blair, the wife of former English Prime Minister Tony Blair, files a lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers Ltd. in relation to the phone hacking scandal that rocked his media empire.
Iran has issued what could be the final execution order for Youcef Nadarkhani, the Christian pastor who was found guilty of renouncing Islam.
Celebrated American war reporter Marie Covlin died in a shelling attack in Syria on Wednesday. Known for her ardent willingness to report from the front lines for Britain's Sunday Times, the 55-year-old reporter had covered conflicts in dangerous war zones. Colvin was killed when a shell attack hit a Syrian army building that had been turned into an impromptu press center in the Baba Amr area of the besieged city of Homs, Syria. Take a look at her last dispatches from Syria.
British utility Centrica, the parent company of British Gas, agreed on Wednesday to acquire France's Total E&P's North Sea oil and gas assets for $388 million.
Zach Avery, 5, is now living as a girl after telling his parents at the age of three that he is trapped inside the wrong body. He is one of the youngest people in Britain to be diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder, or GID, and has tried to cut his genitalia before.
On Ash Wednesday every year, those who celebrate the season of Lent will visit their churches early in the morning. There, a priest uses ashes to mark sign of the cross on their foreheads. The ritual kicks off a 40-day period of fasting.
In the past few weeks, a lot of leaks relating to iPad 3 components and expected release date made their way into the Internet and there's no way of verifying what is true and what is not, as Apple has not made any official announcement yet about its upcoming tablet. The latest leak – a photo of affront glass panel (allegedly of iPad 3) – is the clearest photo leaked yet but it has little new to reveal.
A Syrian shelling of the opposition stronghold Homs has left two war journalists, Marie Colvin of British newspaper - The Sunday Times - and French photographer Rémi Ochlik, dead, and several other journalists injured, according to various reports.
Colvin and Ochlik were apparently in a house being used as a media center by activists when it fell under heavy attack
When is the next generation iPad finally getting released? Amid increasing rumors, latest reports suggest that Apple will launch the highly anticipated tablet in Germany March 23.
iPad 3, Apple's next generation tablet, is expected to debut on March 7 and hence, it's not surprising to find Apple watchers vie with one another in trying to be the first to come out with an authentic leaked photo, that would throw light on what the new tablet will boast of. One such site, Apple.pro, published a photo of an alleged component of iPad 3 though, unfortunately, it had very little new to reveal.
A YouTube video showing a 90-year old grandma dancing to the beat of I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me), the Grammy award-winning song by Whitney Houston, has gone viral, notching over 700,000 downloads since Feb. 12.
Two Western journalists were killed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday when shells hit the house they were staying in, opposition activists and witnesses said.
Archaeologists have discovered ruins of two huts at Kharaneh IV, one of the largest Late Pleistocene sites in southwest Asia, located about 70 km east of Jordan's capital Amman.
Two Western journalists were reported to have been killed in Syria Wednesday after government forces shelled the restive central city of Homs, Associated Press reported.
The climbing oil prices could undermine the U.S. economic recovery and it is an extremely disturbing report for President Barack Obama as it could hurt his re-election chances.
Olympus Corp's main lender Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp denied it was trying to take control of the firm's board by stealth, but said it might well agree to send a former banker to be chairman of the disgraced camera and medical device maker.
A U.S. software industry report on Wednesday chided Brazil, China and India for policies it said threatened the future of cloud computing, but also took aim at developed countries such as Germany that did well on its inaugural scorecard.
Adele, the singer who recently won six Grammy awards last weekend and two prizes at the Brit Awards ceremony in London, found herself in the middle of controversy, after flipping the bird on TV. The 23-year-old singer who certainly made Britain proud with her recent achievements, showed the gesture, after being interrupted while giving the acceptance speech.Wasn't it blurs half hour speech that caused a shortage of time. Shame on ITV cutting Adele, said a fan on Twitter.
Arsene Wenger has major decisions to make this summer.
British pop boy band One Direction, known to their fans as 1D, emerged victorious from the 2012 Brit Awards. Their hit single, What Makes You Beautiful, beat out Adele's Someone Like You, and eight other nominated songs, riling up the group's legions of teenage fans who turned to Twitter to express their excitement, causing the hashtag #proudof1D to trend worldwide.
