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At least 48 chemical and defense companies were victims of a coordinated cyber attack that has been traced to a man in China, according to a new report from security firm Symantec Corp.

The United States announced to stop financial contribution to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation after the UN body voted to admit Palestine as its full member, which the Obama administration termed as regrettable and premature.

Ministers, tech executives and Internet activists from around the world gather in London on Tuesday to discuss how to tackle security threats and crime on the Internet without stifling economic opportunities or freedom of speech.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. The wrath of jilted women has often resulted in gruesome killings of partners. Now, in a freakish case, a UK woman has gone on trial for killing her husband by pulling the handbrake of the car he was driving at 60 miles per hour and causing a fatal crash.

At year-end, Brazil’s GDP is expected to hit $2.44 trillion, just a hair above the $2.43 trillion figure for the UK.

We have a lot of Halloween traditions, but what is the history of Halloween and why do we dress up, carve jack-o-lanterns, and go trick-or-treating?

Canadian pop star Justin Bieber has been added to the line-up for the MTV Europe Music Awards in Belfast on Sunday, when he will join his girlfriend and host for the night, actress and singer Selena Gomez.

Adele has a hemorrhaged vocal chord -- not a life-threatening condition

Investors were so concerned that euro zone leaders would not reach agreement on solving the debt crisis in October that they cut equity holdings to the second lowest level in 12 months, Reuters polls showed on Monday.

According to reports, of the 54 nations of the Commonwealth, three-fourths (41) have laws which ban homosexuality.

The New York Fed suspended MF Global from conducting new business with the central bank on Monday and its shares were suspended, as the troubled brokerage nears a deal on its future.

To augment his stature, Sarkozy has stood on boxes, foot-stools, even on his tippy-toes and reportedly even demanded to be photographed only among other short (or shorter) people

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been named in the U.S. State Department's Trafficking in Persons 2011 report, for his alleged sexual exploits with an underage girl.

British government and industry computer systems are facing a disturbing number of cyber attacks, including a recent serious assault on the Foreign Office's network, the head of Britain's communications spy agency said on Monday.

Harry Redknapp is currently pursuing two of United’s most experienced players.

Barclays Plc's underlying quarterly profit rose 5 percent from a year ago as lower charges for bad debt at the British bank offset a third consecutive sharp fall in investment banking revenue.

Ask senior European Union policymakers in private what can stop the euro zone's festering sovereign debt crisis and the answer is the European Central Bank.

Troubled brokerage MF Global Holdings Ltd was nearing a deal late on Sunday night to file for bankruptcy protection and sell assets to Interactive Brokers Group , media reports said.

Pippa Middleton reportedly to sign book deal on party planning.

Mohsen Shahinpoor, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Maine, and a team at Seoul National University in South Korea led by Seung-Won Kim have both independently invented prototypes of robots that snap shut in response to stimuli and trap insects in the manner of the carnivorous Venus flytrap plant (Dionaea muscipula).

The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, Steven Spielberg's 3-D take on Georges Remi's treasured comic books, is already a hit overseas with audiences. But what about the critics?