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Indian spiritual leader Sai Baba, who has millions of followers around the world, is battling for life in a hospital in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, according to media reports.

The number of women suspected to have been killed by the notorious ‘Craigslist killer’ crept up to at least seven on Tuesday as police discovered three more bodies from an area near the highway leading to Jones Beach in New York. The Suffolk County Police said the body of an eighth woman has also been found, but the case has not yet been connected to the Craigslist killing.

The manufacturing slump in March confirms that Japan's economy contracted for a second successive quarter in the first three months of the year, and will mark outright decline in 2011, an analyst has said.

The fighting in Ivory Coast took a crucial turn on Tuesday with the forces loyal to Alassane Ouattara reportedly capturing the presidential residence.

Microsoft is crafting the new OS version, Windows 8, from a position of strength. There haven’t been many clues as to when the release will take place but the tech world is frenzied over the possible arrival of Windows 8 early next year. Here's a look at what could be the features of Windows 8.

According to Amnesty International, as many as 527 people were executed in 2010. A staggering number of 17,833 people are counting their days in the death row in various countries. Following is an overview of the system of death penalty in China, Iran, the United States, Saudi Arabia, North Korea and Yemen which top the chart of executions worldwide.

The Seattle Times said in a report on Monday that Southwest Airlines has a history of maintenance problems. The report said the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had proposed a $10.2 million penalty in 2008 for the airline's failure to conduct mandatory inspections for fuselage fatigue cracking on some of its Boeing 737s. Later the penalty was reduced to $7.5 million.

If experiments going on at the University of Minnesota's heart lab succeed, there could be a way to 'grow your own heart' in due course of time, a development that will find a way around heart transplants that force lifetime use of anti-immunity drugs.

If you go by a leaked photo of the upcoming seventh generation Apple iPod Nano, there is going to be a camera on this iconic product soon. Taiwanese Apple-related blog Apple.pro published a purportedly leaked photo of the seventh generation iPone Nano in the works, with a camera hole on it.

Japanese authorities informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Sunday that external power supply was being used to power the pumps that are injecting fresh water into reactors 1, 2 and 3, thus replacing temporary electrical pumps. It was also informed that some lighting has been reactivated in the turbine buildings of Units 1, 2, 3 and 4.

The Tokyo Electric Power Co.(TEPCO) said on Sunday the bodies of two workers at the damaged Fukushia nuclear plant have been found. The bodies of the two young workers, Kazuhiko Kokubo and Yoshiki Terashima, were found a week ago, but they had to be decontaminated before being handed over to the relatives.

The Libyan rebels were trying over the weekend to put their act together and shore up support and confidence even as Gaddafi's forces solidified their advancements in recent days by unleashing vicious shell attack on Misrata.

A fast-spreading SQL injection attack that illegally peddles a bogus scareware has been breaking anti-virus barriers and compromising millions of websites, besides defrauding unsuspecting victims. The news of this attack was brought out by Websense Security Labs in its blog last week. Websense said its Threatseeker Network identified a new malicious mass-injection campaign which it named LizaMoon.

The question is whether the prank, in time, will turn the heat on its inventors, demanding reincarnation in true form. Like, as they say, a character setting out in search of his creator. Think about Google wizards being tormented in sleep by ghoulish Gmail Motion stillborns!

A coalition air strike in Libya has killed seven civilians, according to the BBC.

Witticisms, super pranks, ultimate gags, hoaxes and plain lies are searching for fools this day. People turn the most cynical this day so that they don’t look naive, and turn on their gullibility meter at the highest level of alert. But a lot of us are caught off guard by some comic concoctions that mix contemporary humor with ingenious lies which are sometimes delectable.

Prominent U.S. lawmakers tore into the plan of the administration to withdraw from air attacks in Libya, saying the decision was “odd”, “troubling” and “unnerving”, according to reports.

A sophisticated satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA) has mapped Earth's gravity with unprecedented precision, helping scientists have clearer understanding of the variation in the gravitational force in different parts of the planet and how this may affect crucial events like an earthquake.

If Apple is delaying the release of its much-fancied iPhone 5 -- it certainly looks like at this point of time -- there indeed are going to be some strategic reasons behind it. And, if one dismisses grapevine on supply crunch and logistical bottlenecks, then the reasons are purely strategic, given that Apple is fighting hard for its space in the maddening smartphone arena.

Microsoft is mulling the introduction of Near Field Communications (NFC) technology on its Windows Phone 7 operating system towards the end of the year, according to reports.

Police authorities in the small Californian town of Arroyo Grande have said an incident of cross burning is being investigated as a theft, arson and hate crime.

After Apple announced the dates for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), the focus has shifted to the old hobbyhorse of tech websites - the iPhone 5 release date. And there is apparent consensus that iPhone 5 may not be launched in June as was expected generally.

The Japanese nuclear safety agency said on Wednesday it is clueless why radiation in waters off Fukushima nuclear plant has gone more than 3,000 times above the legal limit.

The Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), which has been in uneasy spotlight since the quake-triggered nuclear crisis unfolded in Japan, has decided to scrap its four damaged nuclear reactors at the Fukushima power plant.

Arizona death-row inmate Eric John King lost the race with death as the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition to stay the verdict hours before the scheduled time of execution.

NASA has invited people to select their favorite original song to wake up space shuttle Commander Mark Kelly and his five crewmates during their STS-134 mission to the International Space Station.

There has been twister postings suggesting that Libyan foreign minister Mousa Kousa has fled the country and probably defected. The BBC cited a twitter posting saying that Kousa has been cited in Tunisia with family and luggages. BBC said it can’t verify the authenticity of the information.

The U.S. sixth fleet has attacked Libyan ships near the port city of Misrata, where pro-Gaddafi forces had made significant advances, according to the latest reports from the Libyan war theater.

Libyan rebels retreated from Sirte, Gaddafi's hometown, as official forces unleashed heavy weapon fire on them on Tuesday, according to reports. The rebels who were pushed back into Bin Jawad are now digging their toes in there as fight is on for the control of the town.