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BlackBerry users in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India suffered email outages for several hours on Monday, adding to the woes of struggling manufacturer Research in Motion, increasingly seen as a takeover target.

Ironically, RIMM shares are up 2.4 percent in New York trading.

A Hong Kong design student's tribute to Steve Jobs that generated a buzz in cyberspace following the death of the co-founder of Apple last week is not original, the teen-ager said Monday.

The antibiotic that has usually been used to treat the sexually transmitted disease, cefixime, is no longer effective.

Proxy Advisory firm Glass Lewis & Co. has told shareholders of News Corporation that they should vote against six directors, including Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch's sons James and Lachlan, for re-election to the company board.

As per a new law providing equal rights to female heirs, a first-born daughter of royal couple, Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, will be allowed to inherit one of the wealthiest estates in Britain.

Despite being England's icon, Wayne Rooney's red card against Montenegro could come at a heavy price as England manager Fabio Capello revealed the player would face a fight to win back his starting spot.

England's problems from a forgettable Rugby World Cup continues even after their elimination as captain Lewis Moody comes under IRB scrutiny under suspicion of wearing a branded mouth-guard.

At the Let's talk iPhone event, Apple, instead of unveiling an iPhone 5, released an iPhone 4S that features the new iOS 5 and a revolutionary voice-recognition technology.

In a new study, scientists have demonstrated a link between a recurring drop in solar radiation and the cold climate of the UK, northern Europe and parts of America.

Scottish musician Bert Jansch, co-founder of the band Pentangle and the leading figure of British folk revival of the late 1960s and early 1970s, died on Oct.5 at the age of 69, after suffering from and fighting against lung cancer for a long time.

The leaders of Germany and France have promised to unveil new measures to solve the euro zone's debt crisis by the end of the month, as international pressure builds for bold steps from Europe to avert an economic backlash of global proportions. But they declined to reveal any details.

On the heels of the French-Belgian bank Dexia breakup, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a promise to come up with a plan by month-end to recapitalize European banks and deal with Greece's debt burden

A mob of horsemen armed with sticks and petrol bombs attacked an exploration camp run by South African miner Gold Fields' joint venture in Kyrgyzstan, the latest in a series of assaults on mining companies in the Central Asian state.

A link between decadal solar variability and winter climate in the UK, northern Europe and parts of America has been demonstrated by scientists according to a new study.

The leaders of Germany and France have promised to unveil new measures to solve the euro zone's debt crisis by the end of the month, as international pressure builds for bold steps from Europe to avert an economic backlash of global proportions.

A Hong Kong design student's tribute to Steve Jobs that generated a buzz in cyberspace following the death of the co-founder of Apple last week is not original, the teenager said on Monday.

Manchester United midfielder Tom Cleverley has signed an extension to his contract at the club, which will bind him with the champions for four more years.

Sarah Burton, legendary designer Alexander McQueen's right-hand woman, showed off her brilliant Spring/Summer 2012 women's ready-to-wear collection, at the Paris Fashion Week on Oct. 4.

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British Prime Minister David Cameron has called for safeguards to prevent France and other eurozone countries from distorting the EU's single market in an attempt to shift financial services from Britain to the single currency area, the Financial Times reported on Monday.