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Russian President Dimitry Medvedev would love to have a second term in the Kremlin but would not run against Prime Minister and mentor Vladimir Putin if the latter wanted to have another go at the top post. Medvedev made it clear there was nothing inhibiting him from wanting a second term as president, except perhaps the fact that heavy eight Putin is angling for the same job.

Apple's iPad is a product that has decimated competition like no other. Android OS-based rivals and challengers in the tablet sphere have bit dust big time when they had to face down the Apple iPad high winds. However, the same is not happening in smartphone segment. The wireless carriers appear to be preferring Android smartphones to Apple iPhones for a variety of reasons, making it challenging for Apple to tip the scale in their favor.

The next generation pure-Google smartphone Nexus 4 G, which is rumored to be released around Thanksgiving, could put Apple off track with regard to its plans for iPhone 5 launch. The question now is, will Apple postpone iPhone 5 launch beyond September first week or if it will hurry through the process and launch it much sooner than that.

It's a little over two more months of agonizing wait for iPhone fans. The latest buzz in the market is that Apple will release the much-awaited iPhone 5 in the first week of September, and some tech websites have gone ahead to make the prediction that the device will arrive on September 7.

A Japanese scientist's grotesque claim that human waste can be turned into edible meat-like substance has caused some gastric flutter across the world. Several reports have hit the web since the announcement by Okayama Laboratory scientist Mitsuyuki Ikeda, explaining how the poop burger is made. According to the latest reports, some people who actually ate the 'turd burger' have said it tastes like beef.

Legendary saxophonist Clarence Clemons, better known to admirers and friends as the ‘Big Man’, died of complications from a stroke he suffered last week. He was 69.

The persisting rumor that iPhone 5 will have an edge-to-edge display, a feature reviled by die-hard Apple fans, has got more credibility with another leak showing a device with an extended display. If true, this underlines earlier reports that Apple was spending an amazing $4 billion on some display technology for the nee iPhone which would facilitate a much larger display on the same encasement.

Apple has filed a patent application for an advanced halogen-free flame retardant material which could be used in future Apple products. Patently Apple reported that the new material will be integrated into the manufacturing of Apple products like keyboards, mice, iPods, the iPad, cabling and more.

Legendary saxophonist Clarence Clemons, better known to admirers and friends as the ‘Big Man’, died of a massive heart attack on Saturday, aged 69. The death of Clemons was mourned by his fans across the United States. People thronged outside The Stone Pony, the club where Clemons and Springsteen performed alongside other E Street band members. His official website crashed as traffic exceeded bandwidth limits. On Twitter too fans mourned him.

Even as police are investigating if a 22-year-old military man arrested near the Pentagon in suspicious circumstances belonged to any jihadi network or was acting alone, the focus has turned to the old debate of Muslim personnel’s role in the US military.

A hungry black hole far out in the cosmos, about 4 billion miles from Earth, got into an unusual feeding spree when a massive Sun-like star crossed its path, or to be accurate, passed by its gravitational sphere. The massive star was ripped apart, shredded into pieces as the giant black hole devoured it, unleashing some of the most powerful gamma ray flashes astronomers have ever seen. For the black hole,

Apple’s iPhone 5 will catch up big time with its myriad Android rivals -- this suggestion infuriates Apple fans, for they believe iPhone is THE device and Android tribe are imposters. But truth to say, many Android OS-based smartphones already sport an 8MP camera. Now, reports say iPhone 5 will have an improved flash unit for its camera.

Three weeks into the Casey Anthony trial, some mysteries appear tougher to unlock than ever before. Who killed toddler Caylee Anthony will be resolved at the trial, but not apparently who fathered her.

A Lance Corporal Marine Corps reservist was taken into custody on Friday after it was established that he was the person dubiously spotted near the Pentagon and had parked his car in the bushes nearby.

Scientists who analyzed the images of Comet Hartley 2, which was collected by the Deep Impact spacecraft in a comet flyby last year, are puzzled over some quirky features of the little comet. It has been found that Comet Hartley 2 spews out more material than a comet just under a mile wide is expected to, space.com has reported. While comets usually rotate slowly in one direction, Hartley 2 spins rapidly as it tumbles.

The story of a mother who gets entangled in a Facebook game so much so that she causes the inadvertent death of her child had shocking novelty value. Yes it ‘used to have’ the shock value, but not anymore, with more and more such incidents being reported. The highly addictive Facebook games can emerge as a leading killer of children, it seems.

With an iPhone 5 around, friend-finding is going to be a lot easier. At least it's going to be a lot less hard than arduously adding friends on Facebook and getting disillusioned over lack of compatibility. According to the rumor mill, the iPhone 5 is going to become your portable social network. The phone analyses your habits, tastes, lifestyle, aptitudes, travels and the like and finds people who share the same bandwidth. And then it tells you if a potential friend is in the vicinity. Conve...

Following is the full text of President Barack Obama's proclamation on Father's Day, which is celebrated in the US on Sunday.

How much will US taxpayers pay for the 'retirement' of Representative Anthony Weiner, who decided to resign from the Congress in the wake of a damaging online sex scandal? The amount he will get in retirement is close to one million dollars, according to reports.

Various theories are going viral on the Internet regarding Rowling's intentions in launching the mystery website. Some say what follows is a book, others say it's a move. and for yet others, Rowling is setting up a social networking site for Harry Potter fans. Or it could be an e-book platform, a video game, theme park or an encyclopaedia!

Rarely has Apple faced the 'ultimate software-hardware asymmetry' with regard to product launches. But it appears to be such a season for the consumer tech giant. Apple unveiled at the WWDC the iOS 5, the feature-filled update for its vaulted mobile operating system. But then it failed to say anything about when iPhone 5, the device the iOS 5 was supposed to enrich. Then, iCloud was launched, but the network preparedness, or the lack of it, of world carriers came in the spotlight.Now, it l...

It would be treading the beaten track to say that Android OS-based Smartphones and tablets will give iPhone 5 a run for its money when (?) finally Apple launches it. And it's going to irk Apple fans no end to suggest that a range of Android phones are zooming in on Apple's rear view mirror. But a look at how the Android camp is sharpening its arsenal will prove that iPhone 5 will have credible challengers. Here's a look at a few of them.

Photos taken by the Deep Impact spacecraft have revealed an unusually hyperactive little comet, called Hartley 2, which spews inordinately high amounts of dry ice and carbon dioxide into space. For scientists, the new images from Deep Impact's comet flyby have come across as weird and strange. The comet behaves mysteriously --it spews out more water and dry ice than any other comet of its size, and it spins rapidly as it tumbles while most other comets rotate slowly in one direction.

President Barack Obama offered some much-needed support to US Congressman Anthony Weiner who resigned weeks after a damaging sexting scandal erupted.

The defense trial in Caylee Anthony homicide case started off with explosive suggestions and revelations. It was revealed in court on Thursday that both Casey Anthony's brother and father had been DN-tested to rule out their paternity of the murdered toddler.

Apple is biding time to give final touches to its Mac OS X, dubbed as Lion, unveiled at the worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), and would release the updated MacBook Air notebooks only after the latest software update is ready.

There is apparently more evidence that Apple is prepared to dare the likes of Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo and vie for the gaming pie. The warrior is iPhone 5 and the arsenal include the A5 processor with a dual-core graphics core and the most powerful mobile graphics processing architecture built to date. New rumors that float around suggest the iPhone will have strong gaming capabilities supported by multi-core A5 processor and Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR Series6 mobile graphics process...

New Orleans, for example, which was voted the number one dirtiest city in the U.S., is known for its yearly Mardi Gras, the clean up of which is of epic proportions.

Apple makes beautiful devices and routinely cuts new paths in consumer electronics. So much so that it would be a blasphemy to say the tech giant may have looked at rivals and individual developers for inspiration. However, it's routinely said in tech circles that Apple may have done that in respect to the iOS 5.