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According to Engadget, Alex Ioannou, the first customer to pick up a brand-spanking-new Galaxy Nexus in the UK, received instead a developer model by mistake.

There is controversy over the very existence of the memo.

Lady Gaga released the prelude to her upcoming Marry The Night video on Thursday.

Galaxy Nexus went on sale Nov. 17 in the UK, so many of the mainstream media have gotten loaner models from Google, and now that they've had the phone for a day or so, they've got some first impressions for us.

Chip designer ARM said it was optimistic that reductions in inventory by device makers which is dampening demand for semiconductors would be short-lived, bolstering its confidence in its own outlook for 2012.

Nigeria said on Thursday it was fining airlines British Airways and Virgin Atlantic a total of $235 million, as an ongoing row between Britain and Africa's most populous nation over landing slots and ticket prices escalates.

Five things you didn't know about Syrian President Bashar al-Assad

In what may prove to be the greatest heist since Boston's Gardener Museum theft, designer Marc Jacobs' entire spring/summer 2012 collection has been stolen.

Warner Bros. signed a major film distribution agreement with LOVEFiLM, a major competitor to Netflix, who signed an agreement with Lionsgate earlier this week.

The GAVI international immunizations group has agreed to fund the roll-out of vaccines against cervical cancer in developing countries, offering protection against a disease that kills one woman every two minutes.

Superbugs capable of evading even the most powerful antibiotics are increasing their grip in Europe with rates of drug resistance in one type of bacteria reaching 50 percent in the worst-hit countries, health officials said Thursday.

With defected army soldiers attacking more buildings in Syria, Russia is calling for talks between President Bashar al-Assad and opposition leaders to end what is looking very much like a civil war.

Sergio Ermotti, the suave new boss of UBS AG , could signal the Swiss bank's return to dividend payments later on Thursday as part of plans to slash risky investment banking and re-focus on the core business of managing the assets of the world's wealthy.

George Harrison inadvertently became the greatest promoter of Indian culture and Hinduism to the Western world during the 20th century.

The British government has agreed to sell Northern Rock, the failed mortgage lender it nationalized in 2008, to Virgin Money, the banking arm of Richard Branson's Virgin empire.

The comment by Sepp Blatter, FIFA president that that there is no problem with racism in football has provoked intense furious backlash from anti-racism campaigners and players

According to a new research paper published in the November Journal of Virology, vaccinating children annually against influenza virus could interfere with their development of cross-reactive killer T cells to flu viruses.

A total of 15 unions are now backing the strike against the government’s proposal to make public sector workers pay more and work longer to earn their pensions.

Finnish startup Ovelin is launching a game in the United States and Britain that is designed to help people stick with their music lessons, with the first version of the game playable on Apple's iPad.

Ronnie Biggs is due to launch his new autobiography.

Japan's disgraced Olympus Corp may sell assets to help pay down $3.4 billion in debt under a plan aimed at keeping the support of lenders in its battle to survive an accounting scandal, the Nikkei business daily said on Thursday.