Rupert Murdoch's multi-million dollar campaign to win back the hearts and minds of News Corporation's independent investors suffered a new blow on Friday after another key shareholder group called for his eviction from its board.
A recent prospective study has found out that Neurosurgery for refractory focal epilepsy keeps adults free of seizures for up to 10 years. The study was conducted by Dr. John S. Duncan, of the Institute of Neurology at University College London, and colleagues. It was found that people were 52 percent free from seizures at five years and 47 percent at 10 years.
Apple Inc.'s iPhone 4S sales in stores began in Japan, Australia, France, UK, Germany, Canada and the U.S. on Friday, with fans snapping up the final gadget unveiled during Steve Jobs' lifetime.
UK scientists at Strathclyde and the James Hutton Institute are developing tests for tracing unidentifiable source of the raw materials in designer 'legal high' drugs. Using isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) technique, UK researchers have attempted to reveal the course of a drug's manufacturing procedure which is expected to track the and gather information on manufacturers of bath salts or so-called ‘designer drugs’.
G20 finance chiefs and central bank heads from the world's biggest economies meet in Paris on Friday needing to find a solution to a deepening euro zone debt crisis that has fanned fears of a global recession.
Northrop Grumman Corp on Thursday pulled out of the 2012 international air show in Farnborough, England, a dramatic move underscoring the company's drive to cut costs as it prepares for leaner times in the global defense market.
Britain's Andy Murray became overwhelming favorite for an Asian hat-trick as main rival Rafa Nadal was beaten in the third round of the Shanghai Masters on Thursday.
Israeli President Shimon Peres told media that he was “pleasantly surprised” by Erdogan's help in winning Shalit’s release,
Dear Tim Cook, Apple CEO: Now that you are essentially betting Apple on iOS 5 and a whole family of iPhones, iPods, iPads and Macs that run it, you've just been handed a great case study by your Canadian rival, Research in Motion. For three days, BlackBerry customers worldwide couldn't access e-mails. This, the company said, was due to a server problem in England.
Research In Motion has fixed the root cause of a global disruption of BlackBerry services and is still working to clear a backlog of delayed messages, its co-CEOs said on Thursday, hoping to control the damage to RIM four days after the outage began.
Malawi will allow Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir into the country for a regional trade summit starting on Friday and has no plans to arrest him under an International Criminal Court warrant, a senior government official said on Thursday.
The new phone is about to hit stores.
The National Transitional Council is still fighting to pry Sirte from the remaining Moammar Gadhafi loyalists in the city. Three members of the NTC said Wednesday that they had captured Gadhafi's son Mutassim trying to flee Sirte and taken him Benghazi.
Study suggests that oral contraception alters a woman’s way of choosing a mate.
Kenyan police told Reuters that both kidnap victims are women and that they believe al-Shabab, the Somali militant group linked to al-Qaeda, are responsible.
Violence and the threat of worse violence has idled a major gold exploration project in a highly prospective area of the central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan.
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion faced the prospect of a compensation bill from network providers on Thursday as it wrestled for a fourth day to get the world's dominant mobile email service working properly.
The Wall Street Journal newspaper has been accused of using a questionable to scheme to inflate its circulation numbers in Europe by permitting sponsor companies to purchase copies in bulk for as little as 1 cent each.
All told, BP and its partners will invest nearly £10 billion ($15.7 billion) in North Sea oil and gas properties over the next five years.
The Ballestas Island in Peru, like the other 21 islands along the Peruvian coast, is home to nearly 4 million migratory birds such as guanays, boobies and pelicans.
Eighty five weapons stored in a warehouse intended for use in Brad Pitt's World War Z film were seized by a SWAT team near Budapest in Hungary on Monday, because they had not been suitably modified according to the Hungarian law, authorities said Tuesday.
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion faced the prospect of a compensation bill from network providers on Thursday as the world's dominant provider of mobile email struggled for a fourth day with service glitches.
