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Convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel basset al-Megrahi, who had been released by the Scottish government in 2009, is nearing his death and is oscillating in and out of a coma, according to reports.

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said less importance given to computer science in the British education system is holding the country’s digital media economy.

There have been rumors that Sony Ericsson, Japan, is preparing to launch a new handset codenamed Nozomi in November 2011. An anonymous blogger posted on xperiablog.net that Sony Ericsson is launching Nozomi before Christmas.

Tanzanian authorities have seized as many as 1,041 elephant tusks on the island of Zanzibar, in the largest ivory haul in a year, reports say.

Apple has made one of the two biggest announcements it would ever make this year -- the resignation of iconic leader Steve Jobs as Chief Executive Officer. The other landmark announcement, which it hasn’t made as yet, is the one related to the iPhone 5 release date. There is fat chance the Cupertino giant will start sending invites for the iPhone 5 event sooner rather than later. More so, in the backdrop of the exit of the visionary leader Jobs.

Even as chaos reigned on Tripoli following the ouster of Muammar Gaddafi from power, hundreds of Islamic militants were freed from a Libyan jail this week, according to reports.

British energy giant BP is in the news in the United States for the wrong reasons, again. A female polar bear was accidentally shot by a security guard working for BP’s security contractor Purcell in the oil-rich North Slope of Alaska on Aug.3. The animal, which belongs to a threatened species, died about a fortnight later, inviting the wrath of wildlife activists.

Legendary investor Warren Buffett made a phone call to Bank of America CEO Brian T. Moynihan on Aug. 24 and offered to invest a staggering $5 billion in the bank. The Bank of America shares had been in doldrums amid questions over its liquidity situation and rumors that it would need a massive capital injection.

As Hurricane Irene headed for the U.S. East Coast Thursday night, authorities prepared for the worst and scientists said tides and ocean temperatures were increasing its destructive power.

Finnish handset maker, Nokia, has launched two new phones, both of which are highly affordable. These are the Nokia 101 which comes at a cost of $36 (EUR25) and Nokia 100 that costs $28 (EUR20).

Apple stock fell over 7 percent in a single day of trading after it was announced that Steve Jobs was stepping down from the position of CEO. It was already expected that he would quit the position particularly with the confirmation of his health problem relating to pancreatic cancer. It was also expected that the stock of Apple was going to be badly hit once he officially made that decision. The one question remaining was how badly it was going to hit the shares of Apple. The trend shown last d...

The discovery of partial skeleton of a small, shrew-like mammal, in the fossil beds of Liaoning, China, has helped explain the ancestry of living mammals on earth, including humans.

Sprint shares, which had received heavy pummeling of late, rose after the Wall Street Journal reported that the carrier will begin selling iPhone 5 in mid-October.

The latest news is not euphoric. The soon-to-be-unveiled results of further research at the LHC, where huge chunks of data were analyzed to establish ranges at which the particle were not found, points that the task of finding the particle is harder now. Scientists say it looks possible now that the elusive particle may not exist at all.

The iPhone 3GS is being given away for free by Best Buy in an offer valid only on Monday.

A gunman opened fire at a basketball league match in Philadelphia Monday evening, wounding six spectators, authorities said.

HP has marked down its short-lived TouchPad tablet so much that the customer can have the 16GB model for $99, and the 32GB model for $149. But is it even worth it at $99?

Physicists’ hunt for science's modern day Holy Grail, Higgs boson, is getting harder as new data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has shown that the 'God particle' doesn't' exist in a wide range of possible masses.

It is no sequel to the Hugh Grant movie. Rather it's about some interesting news tidbits that popped up in the last few days.

Even as Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi's grip on the country was slipping fast with rebels making headway into the center of Tripoli and international pressure on the four-decade ruler to step down reached its zenith, there are reports that Gadhafi's son Seif Al-Islam has been captured by the rebels while another son, Mohammed, has surrendered.

Harvey Norman, exclusive retailer of HP TouchPad in Australia, has decided to pull the device from shelves, expediting the liquidation of HP's tablet computer from the market barely weeks after its launch.

The Korean language Web site Electronic Times has reported that Google is readying a killer smartphone, third-generation Nexus Prime, that would give Apple iPhone 5 a run for its money if it is launched in October.

When the storied West Memphis Three walked to freedom 18 years after they were imprisoned for allegedly killing three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, there were crowds of people outside the prison offering them support, and chanting that justice was finally done. Were they really innocent?

A Mississippi teenager who intentionally ran over a black man in an apparent hate crime and bragged about the incident to a friend will be charged with capital murder, which can attract death sentence or life in prison.

Egypt has said it is withdrawing its envoy to Israel, holding Tel Aviv responsible for the deaths of five Egyptian border troops on Thursday. The latest development marks the lowest ebb in the relations between the two countries that had maintained cold peace over the last several decades.

China's first aircraft carrier, Varyag, has concluded its four-day sea trial and sailed back to the Dalian port.

Four people died and at least 40 were injured when the stage at the Indiana State Fair concert crashed on to the crowds waiting for the award-winning country duo Sugarland to get on to the stage and perform.

The iPhone 5 release rumor has reached the peak with the latest reports about the device being unveiled as early as Sept. 7, quashing earlier theories about an October launch.

The rumor about Apple launching a Cheaper version of iPhone, which was bandied out early this year, is getting stronger. The latest rumors suggest that Apple will launch a "low-cost" iCloud iPhone soon.