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Apple has officially announced the sale of unlocked iPhone 4 through its stores in the United States and the devices will be available hours from now. Is Apple clearing the deck for the arrival of the iPhone5 5? Or is it a marketing strategy aimed at international travellers who would want to insert micro-SIM card from any GSM carrier in their local countries? Or, on a broader scale, is Apple paving the way for what is dubbed as the 'global iPhone 5'?

A rabies-infected girl who showed normally irreversible symptoms of the late-stage infection, survived miraculously in what is only the third such case in the US.

The weekend rumor that Apple is going to sell unlocked iPhones through its outlets is gaining momentum. The latest strand of the story to emerge is that factory unlocked iPhones have been shipped to Apple stores and that these will be available starting Wednesday.

Representative Anthony Weiner's sexting scandal has a pronounced impact on the tweeting habits of US politicians on both sides of the aisle. Fewer US Congressmen are tweeting their fans about their personal and political life in the wake of the Weiner scandal, according to a study by a website that tracks social media.

Representative Anthony Weiner, who is caught in a worsening sexting scandal, is finally thinking about stepping down, a remarkable change in stance over the weekend, it has been reported.

The latest iPhone rumors say Apple will start selling unlocked iPhone 4 starting Wednesday. A source is a Twitter user called @chronicwire who, according to tech sites, has made true predictions in the past.

New Zealand's Christchurch was rocked by a series of earthquakes on Monday even as vivid memories of a devastating earthquake in February that killed about 180 people had hardly faded.

In the high seas of iPhone 5 arrival uncertainty, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) appears to be a raft o hope and certitude! While the rest of the world knoweth not when the next generation iPhone will arrive, and Apple is as tight-lipped a s ever about its product launch, UAE wireless carrier Etisalat has claimed the network will launch the LTE iPhone 5 this year.

Does the relentless focus on software reflect a wrong sense of priority? Apple left fans high and dry over when it will launch if the iPhone 5. A lot of reports meanwhile mused if this strategy was ceding ground to the Android-based devices.

Apple iPhone 5 will have panoramic photo capabilities, suggests an iOS 5 code section.

Sony, Google, the FBI, Lockheed Martin, Citigroup, and now the International Monetary Fund (IM) -- the tentacles of cyber criminals are not sparing any big ticket organisation in the world. The infiltration might have involved significant reconnaissance prior to the attack, and code may have been written specifically to penetrate the the Fund, according to a former cybersecurity specialist at the World Bank.

Following up its WWDC musings about a post-PC world, Apple is getting ready with its next generation ultra thin 11.6 and 13.3-inch MacBook Air notebooks that are scheduled to begin production and hit market soon. Apple has reportedly placed orders for the manufacturing of 380,000 Sandy Bridge-based MacBook Airs this month, in addition to a 80,000 thousand units of the existing MacBook Airs.

Apple has halted the delivery of iPads for Verizon which were due to be shipped from China, according to various media reports.

Sophisticated surgery can stitch together bones, muscles, nerves and skin from a suitable donor on the patient's face. Quite a few full face transplant surgeries have taken place recently, offering a second life to many people who lose their facial identity in macabre accidents, fires and animal attacks.

Connecticut chimpanzee attack victim Charla Nash got a full face and hand transplant late last month in a 20-hour surgery. The prerequisites of a full face transplant surgery are the availability of a suitable donor with blood and tissues matching the patient’s and the physical and psychological health of the patient.

Hillary Clinton' aides have painstakingly refuted a media report that said she was eying the top job at the World Bank. If not running the World Bank, what will Hillary Clinton do after she steps down as Secretary of State? Would she be Obama's Vice-President? Or Defense Secretary? Or will she be gathering herself for yet another White House bid in 2016? Or indeed, a race as early as 2012?

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich’s White House campaign lay in shambles on Thursday as more than a dozen top officials and advisers deserted him en masse.

Representative Gabrielle Giffords fought against odds to stage a remarkable recovery from a bullet wound to head five months ago, but hasn’t yet regained her full communication abilities, an aide has said.

Apple's iOS 5, unveiled at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) the week by Steve Jobs, will feature the capability to play high resolution 1080p video content on iPad 2. What this means by extension is that the next generation iPhone will also sport this feature. iOS 4 hadn’t given iPhone and iPad users the 1080p playback facility -- they only had the 720p playback. Users could not even sync 1080p content to iOS devices through iTunes. Now that will change with the arrival of iOS 5.

Donald Trump came down heavily on old adversary Anthony Weiner, who is coping (?) with the worst slump in his life and career. Trump, who as often clashed with Weiner on TV shows, did not show any mercy; he just went for the jugular, uttering words like psycho, disturbed and suicidal, while describing Anthony Weiner's moment of shame.

Representative Anthony Weiner has tied himself up in inner ware fabric, as if it were. His remarkable fall from grace has been the top story for days on end and compromising content about him, both text and images, is mushrooming on the Internet.

What features the next iPhone will have is a question that has given rise to a vast range of speculations. Over the last few months several iPhone 5 features were discussed by tech websites and in the blogosphere. Some rumors were supported by image leaks, sources from manufacturing partners while other features were thought based on what competitors offer. DigiTimes has reported that OmniVision will supply about 90 percent of image sensors for the Apple iPhone 5. Sony will get only 10 percent o...

Apple fans will cheer the announcement of iOS 5 at the WWDC; but it is the Android camp that will be heartened by the fact that there has been no word on the iPhone 5. An iPhone 4 S in August? And the true iPhone 5 in 2012? will that be too late? Or, will it fit better into Apple's strategy?

Representative Anthony Weiner refused to step down on Tuesday even as friends deserted him and political foes bayed for his blood. Responding to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s statement that Weiner should quit, the disgraced politician said: “He’s (Cantor) entitled to his viewpoint ... I’m not resigning, no.” But how long can he hang on to the public office after he squandered away people's trust by denying that he sent the lewd photograph to a woman's Twitter account?

Representative Anthony Weiner's political future rolled downhill as fellow politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, refused to stand by him and more revelations about steamy exchanges with online mistresses emerged.

Police have not been able to find dead bodies from the premises of a farm house in Hardin, Texas, which was tipped to hide a 'mass grave', according to the latest reports. After extensive searches the police have been able to confirm that there were no dead bodies, and no evidence of any crime at the scene, contrary to the claims of a psychic tipster that as many as 30 dismembered dead bodies were buried in a mass grave in the property that belonged to a truck driver.

As many as 20 bodies have been recovered from a house in Hardin, Texas, which is suspected to a have a mass grave, according to CNN. Federal officials confirmed the unearthing of bodies, including those of children, even as various theories are doing the rounds regarding the mass grave in Hardin, 50 miles from Houston.

The hackers' world is one of immense intrigue; betrayal looms large ahead of them at every turn and nasty surprises are what they deal with every day. And then, they cohabit with the strangest partners, the law enforcement machinery. For some, the governments offer protection against the pirates, hackers and cyber criminals of all hues, while for others, it's the government machinery that is in the dock - for invasive control over every movement, even the thought processes of all people.

Standing in uneasy spotlight after his Twitter scandal got out of hand, Anthony Wiener made profuse apologies on Monday. The full text of his confession is below: