Drishya Nair

In yet another High-profile cyber attack case, the public website of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency went down on Wednesday evening with Lulz Security claiming responsibility for the attack.

In a major twist, Cargo ship MV Suez, released by Somali pirates on Monday, was attacked by pirates again on Wednesday, as reported by crew members.

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has sought permission to visit Syrian refugees in southern Turkey where thousands of people have taken shelter after fleeing a crackdown in their homeland, a Turkish diplomatic source said.

Twenty-six people have been arrested for possession and trading of images of child sexual assault using the Internet, the Manhattan district attorney announced Tuesday.

An arrest was made by Pakistan's top military spy agency, of the Pakistani informants who gave information to the CIA before the May 2 raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

There's still no app for good old-fashioned common sense, that is something no one in business can afford to be without, says Michael Feuer, cofounder and former CEO of OfficeMax and author of the new book The Benevolent Dictator: Empower Your Employees, Build Your Business, and Outwit the Competition.

Turkey's efforts in improving ties with its neighbors in the Middle East over the past decade may witness a challenge in the unabated unrest in Syria that may force a rethinking of its foreign policy, now that Sunday's election is out of the way.

At least one person was killed in a suicide bomb attack at a bank in Islamabad on Monday.

Apple is known to have provided global consumers with some exciting products. But there are many more which are highly anticipated but still in the pipeline. Here is a list of 6 most-anticipated products from Apple:

The Sryrian gay girl, Amina’s blog posts, that literally grabbed world media attention turned out to be a hoax writing by a 40-year-old Edinburgh University masters student namely, Tom MacMaster.

The failed launch of a perfume in memory of pop icon Michael Jackson caused a stench this week, as his father Joe Jackson distanced himself from a Frenchman behind the deal, and a lawsuit disputed their rights.

13 rebels lost their lives as clashes between rebels and government forces in Zawiyah, near the Libyan capital, continued for a second day on Sunday, said a rebel spokesman in the town.

The investigation into the online contact between Rep. Anthony Weiner and a 17-year-old Delaware girl has been closed by Police. The girl started following the New York Democrat on Twitter after a class trip to the nation's capital earlier in the spring.

In yet another attempt to suppress the tree month long uprising against President Bashar al-Assad that has driven thousands of refugees into Turkey, Syrian tanks on Sunday rocked a border town overnight, said the residents.

About 2,000 villagers protested against POSCO's planned $12 billion steel plant on Saturday, with women and children forming a human ring around the site. Local television carried footages of women and children folks lying down on the site, making a long human ring.

In the fight against crime German police have come up with an innovative idea for a weapon- vultures that can find hidden corpses. Three vulture detectives - called Sherlock, Miss Marple and Columbo - are being trained in Walsrode bird park in northern Germany, a local media reported.

Nearly 10000 people were forced to flee and 30 houses were charred down when a massive wildfire in Arizona broke out and was at the brink of moving in to New Mexico on Friday. The fire threatened more towns possibly endangering two major power lines that bring electricity from Arizona to west Texas, a report said.

In an interview, Lady Gaga has revealed her childhood secret, that she used to be taunted as a 'sl*t' at school for her sense of dressing.But that certainly did not stop her from a catwalk in a see-through dress on Germany's Top Model show in Cologne, a report in thedailystar.net stated.

Youth icon pop singer Lady Gaga's piano is set to go under the hammer in a bid to raise money for young musicians.

Hardly a few days after Syrian civilians started fleeing the nation to find a safe place in Turkey border, Syrian helicopter gunships fired machineguns to disperse pro-democracy protests, witnesses said, in the first reported use of air power to suppress unrest in Syria's increasingly bloody three-month-old uprising.

Robert M.Gates, U.S Defense Secretary slammed NATO nations for failing to meet their commitments in Afghanistan.

There is no need to lay off teachers or firefighters or to close fire houses, as proposed earlier by New York's city council in order to save revenue. The answer lies simply within the lawful collection of tax on 40 million cartons of untaxed cigarettes sold by Indian Reservations, internet, and other illegal sources, which equates to $2 billion dollars in lost revenue per year.

Teen icon Lady Gaga has advised her teenage fans to abstain from having sex for as long as they can.

It's Lady Gaga who will be performing at the closing ceremony of Gay pride event in Rome this weekend, organizers announced.

Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda emerged on Thursday as a leading candidate to replace the increasingly unpopular Prime Minister Naoto Kan, possibly this month.

NATO warplanes hit a town west of Libya's capital, the local media reported soon after Western and Arab powers promised more than $1 billion to help rebels fighting to end Muammar Gaddafi's four-decade rule.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for global action to end the Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) disease by 2020, in a UN summit on Aids in New York.

Almost half of the PC users will not be able to access iCloud, with Apple barring WinXP users from iCloud, a report stated.

French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, a leading contestant of the chief job post for Indian Monetary Fund (IMF) chief post,said on Thursday, that she was very satisfied with her meetings with top Chinese officials.