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Madonna may be the queen of pop, but her crown as movie director slipped this week after most early reviews of her second feature film W.E. ranged from middling to poor.

Samsung’s new Galaxy S2 was released in more than 120 countries, and it is expected to reach the U.S. shores this month. South Korea and United Kingdom were the first markets to receive the device.

Wikileaks on Friday has confirmed that it has released an entire archive of 251,287 unredacted U.S. diplomatic cables, endangering the lives of individuals whose names were exposed.

Madonna may be the queen of pop, but her crown as movie director slipped this week after most early reviews of her second feature film W.E. ranged from middling to poor.

The great August stock selloff has been far from uniform. Some sectors are now pricing in a far bigger risk of recession than others, leaving islands of potential value for the brave.

BP said on Friday that a lawsuit that led to Russian bailiffs raiding its Moscow office this week was absurd and that it expected to be able to resume normal work at the office on Monday.

As the battle between the high-end Android smartphones are getting hotter day by day, the two most talked-about phones apart from the iPhone 5 are Samsung Galaxy S2 and the Motorola Photon 4G.

David Cameron has pledged the continuance of the combined UN and Nato operation against Libya, to prevent a pariah state on the borders of Europe.

Muammar Gaddafi, driven into hiding by his foes, on Thursday urged his supporters to fight on, even as Libya's new interim rulers met world leaders to discuss reshaping a nation torn by 42 years of one-man rule and six months of war.

Computer simulations of the weather workings of the entire planet will be able to make forecasts to within a few kilometers accuracy, helping predict the effects of deadly weather systems.

Pop star Madonna thanked her ex-husbands for encouraging her to take up a career in movies, as she arrived in Venice on Thursday for the world premiere of her lavish royal drama W.E.

IBM, the No. 2 computer services company, has snapped up technology players in Canada and the UK -- demonstrating an appetite for new technologies but also for tax advantages.

Factory activity worldwide stalled last month as new orders tumbled, heightening fears that the global economy may be heading for another recession and driving stock markets lower.

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The NTC received a large boost on Thursday when Russia finally granted its recognition.

Factory activity worldwide stalled last month as new orders tumbled, a series of surveys showed on Thursday, heightening fears that the global economy may be heading for another recession.

A group of scientists identified the headless remains of Ned Kelly, Australia's infamous outlaw, officials said on Thursday. Their discovery has ended a mystery surrounding the whereabouts of Kelly's body — a mystery that dates back 130 years.

Moammar Gadhafi is in a desert town outside Tripoli planning a counterattack, a Libyan military chief said Thursday morning.

Two of Moammar Gadhafi's sons clashed on the airwaves Wednesday, with one offering peace and another promising a 'war of attrition' as a final battle for control of Libya's coast loomed.

It was a DNA sample from one of Kelly's descendants that confirmed that one of the skeletons, which was missing most of its skull, was indeed that of the notorious killer, said Victoria Attorney General Robert Clark.

Global warming and climate change are phenomena that broke the bonds of scientific circles to emerge as a matter of debate between believers and skeptics. Countless studies validating and denying global warming have seen the light of the day, providing fodder for more, often somewhat bitter debates. Within the past month, Nobel Prize winner and leading climate change alarmist Al Gore has called those who deny global warming akin to racists, and pseudo-...