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Four person were injured in scuffles that broke out at a Beijing Apple store after the iPad 2 went on sale on Friday in the country.

A vainglorious Osama Bin Laden dyed his beard black and put on golden robes when he appeared before camera to record his ominous messages to his followers and adversaries from a hideous den in Pakistan. New video footages released by the Pentagon shows the terror mastermind squatting in a squalid room with bare minimum furnishings and a 14-inch TV set, holding a television remote.

The Taliban leadership in Afghanistan has said the killing of Osama bin laden will revitalize their fight against the U.S. and its allies in the country.

U.S. President Barack Obama showered fulsome praise on the U.S. Navy SEAL commandos who took part in the pre-dawn swoop in Pakistan on Monday that killed the country's most wanted terror ring leader Osama Bin Laden.

Researchers at the Queen's University Human Media Lab in Kingston, Ontario, have invented a device they hail as the 'future of the phone'. The PaperPhone, as it is called, is made of extremely thin film, and has a flexible electronic display.

Osama bin Laden chose his fifth wife Amal al-Sadah from Yemen, the land of his ancestors. She married the terror leader at the age of 17 and lived with him till his last day. She was with him in his final moments, either willingly trying to act as a human shield or pushed in front by her cowering husband.

A new diplomatic fight has broken out between the U.S. and Pakistan over the custody of Amal al Sadah, one of Bin Laden's wives who was with him when the terror mastermind was killed.

Nearly 30 schools in Washington DC have received envelopes containing a mysterious white powder and with ‘AL AQEDA-FBI’ written on them, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Thursday. Preliminary testing has proved that the powder was not harmful, the FBI has said.

People who prefer to store their numerous, ever-growing list of passwords in the cloud were in for a big surprise when LastPass revealed earlier in the week a possible security breach in its networks and asked users to reset their master passwords connecting to the site.

Sony Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer apologized to users for 'the inconvenience and concern' caused by the attack on its PlayStation Network. The following is the full text of the letter by Stringer posted in an official blog:

Slain terror mastermind Osama Bin Laden was plotting massive attacks on America when he was killed in his hideout in Pakistan, it has emerged. Sensitive information seized from Laden's residence by the US. Nay SEALs show that he had made elaborate plans for attacking U.S. cities like New York, Washington, Chicago and Los Angeles on important days like July 4 and Christmas.

As the impact of the death of feared terror mastermind Osama Bin Laden is slowly sinking in across the world, Pakistan is bracing for unwelcome repercussions. On the one hand, the country could lose allies now that there is near-certain evidence that Islamabad was making a mockery of the hunt for Bin Laden. On the other, there would certainly be massive, violent revenge attacks from various terror outfits active in the country.

Even as U.S. President Barack Obama decided not to release the death photos of Osama Bin Laden, media speculation over different versions of the terror chief’s killing became murkier with the 'revelation' that he was captured alive and killed alter.

President Barack Obama went back on his promise to release at least one photo of dead Bin Laden, and said on Wednesday he would rather not incite more violence in the name of the Al-Qaeda terror chief's photo.

Ever since the massive security breach in Sony's PlayStation network accounts came to light last month, there have been fears that other large networks could come under similar attacks. And these fears are well-founded according to a report.

China's inflation rate has reached a point where it is sparking social unrest, the American enterprise Institute's (AEI) latest outlook report has noted. Chinese premier Wen Jiabao's recent comment that inflation is a tiger that once set free is very difficult to put back in its cage[1] aptly characterizes the current inflation in his country. The world's second-largest economy faces some fundamental choices if it is to restore stability, says the report, which was au...

Record high gold prices have fuelled investment in gold mining and exploration around the world. This is particularly true in the case of the Yukon region which is home to some of the largest gold miners.

The Bank of America Merrill Lynch said in a report that there was strong possibility of silver hitting $80 an ounce, causing ripples in the silver stock and ETF markets.

Sony failed to say conclusively say if the security breach of its PlayStation Network resulted in hackers getting access to credit card data of about 10 million customers. In a much-awaited statement on Sunday, Sony said it was not sure if hackers got the data but emphasised that there was no evidence that they got.

President Barack Obama and Saturday Night Live comic Seth Meyers skewered Republican presidential hopeful and fierce Obama critic Donald Trump at Saturday's White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Apple has banned incentivized app installs in a bid to curtail the excessive influence this practice exerts in the listing order or ranking on the App Store.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was in the house bombed by NATO war planes but he and his wife escaped unhurt even as his youngest son and three grand children died.

Even as silver prices are hovering near their all-time record high, there are some investors who ardently believe prices will continue to go upward. And then, there are people who think it's realistically possible that silver will breach an unbelievable $100 an ounce!

Files leaked from the U.S. military recently suggest that Osama Bin Laden escaped dramatically from the Tora Bora mountains in Afghanistan in 2001 because the NATO forces on his trail were not fully equipped.

College education in the U.S. is a rip-off, it is no longer a safe investment for the future, and its quality has been so watered down that it doesn't any longer help you get the dream job. Moreover, costly higher education will rather cripple the rest of your life by burdening you with a veritable student loan debt trap!

More high profile defections from the Baath Party over the last two days have weakened Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad even as the world is keenly watching how the opposition’s planned ‘day of rage’ will unfold today.

One of Hollywood's most iconic landmarks, Grauman's Chinese Theatre, is once again changing hands.

Apple, which rolled out its much-delayed white iPhone in 28 countries on Thursday, has said it had made changes in the manufacturing process to make the new gadget more durable.

The Chinese crackdown on perceived dissent took another familiar turn when 20 Christians of a protestant sect were arrested even as they prepared to hold an Easter service in Beijing.