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A 16-year-old boy who bludgeoned his former girlfriend to death last October after being challenged by Facebook friends to carry out the murder, was found guilty by jury at Swansea crown court in Wales.

For modern science hunting its holy grail, a lot is at stake. Higgs boson is the lynchpin of the modern particle physics theory called the Standard Model.

Facebook is opening its vistas wider for corporate marketers, leveraging its 700-million user base as the social networking giant is locked in a game of one-upmanship with Google following the launch of Google+.

Anders Breivik butchered scores of innocent people because he wanted to draw Europe's attention to the feared 'Islamization' of the region. The mindless brutality of his killing spree shocked the world, but he has earned some fans thanks to the inhuman deed. The following are some ultra-fundamentalist positions of Breivik, taken from a 1500-page manifesto, which he released hours before the attack, titled '2083, A European Declaration of Independence.'

'History shows that even when the decision to raise the debt ceiling goes down to the wire, it does not lead to a default or a change in the perception that the US is the gold standard against which to benchmark other debt. This time around the stakes are higher.'

Gold prices rose to an all-time record in New York to touch $1623.70 as investors weighed in the possibility of a debt default in the U.S.

Physicists in the hunt for the elusive Higgs boson, or God particle, have set themselves an 18-month time frame to unlock the mystery of the all-important missing link in the predominant particle physics theory called the 'standard model'.

The Utah Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake has confirmed that Olympic medal-winning US skier Jeret Peterson was found dead from gunshot wounds in a remote canyon between Salt Lake City and Park City in Lambs Canyon on Monday. Here is a profile of the colorful sportsman.

Sitting on a hospital wheel chair, six-year-old Lucy Mangum told the story of a shark attack that spooked those who frequent North Carolina's Ocrakoke Beach.

Olympic medal-winning US skier Jeret Peterson has been found dead from gunshot wounds in a remote canyon between Salt Lake City and Park City in Lambs Canyon.

Among mysteries lying on the far side of the Moon, which cannot be seen from Earth, are volcanoes as well, new photos from a NASA orbiter have revealed.

Even as the first major bomb attack in the country after the World War II jolted Norwegians badly, another monstrous and mindless attack was about to happen in a tiny island 50 miles from Oslo.

The discovery of Higgs boson, the so-called God particle, will help scientists explain how particles have mass, could throw light into the supersymmetric particles and thereby light up investigation into the make-up of the dark matter.

Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), who have been trying to unlock the mystery over the origin of particle mass, said on Monday the Higgs boson still remained elusive after more than 70 million particle collisions in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Nafissatou Diallo, the Guinean hotel maid who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault, has revealed details of the alleged encounter which cost the French leader a job, career and reputation.

Another impasse at the U.S. debt ceiling talks caused gold to touch new highs on Monday. Spot gold rose to a record $1,622.49 per ounce, an increase of 1.1 percent, as investors became nervous about the possibility of a U.S. rating downgrade. There are analysts who believe that irrespective of whether there will be a debt deal in the U.S. or not, gold will continue to rise higher, basically because of the residual weakness of the dollar.

Oracle suffered a setback in its Java patents lawsuit against Google when a court rejected damage claims worth billions of dollars. Oracle had filed the lawsuit last year alleging that Google infringed Oracle's Java patents in the Android operating system. Google disputed the claims.

If Anders Breivik were not a mass killer he would have been an academic of quite some substance -- it is with commanding flair that he flits from one philosopher to another in his raving 1500-page thesis against multiculturalism in Europe, the idea of political correctness and the perceived Islamization of Europe. His thesis contains some of the most potent and abrasive tirades against multiculturalism to this date. Drawing on his conviction that an Islamic colonization of Europe is taking place...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn's accuser in the Manhattan sex assault case, the 32-year-old Guinean woman, has come out in public trying to cement the faltering case against the former IMF chief.

While it is clear that Breivik had held radical Christian views and was a confirmed anti-Muslim, there is still no conclusive evidence to suggest that he had sculpted himself into a homegrown terrorist with established agenda. It is possible that the attacker was a demented, narcissistic killer who was misguided by the notion of a single person being able to change the world.

A huge reservoir of water engulfing a quasar, or a feeding black hole billions of light years away in outer confines of the universe, has been detected by scientists.

President Barack Obama summoned House Speaker John Boehner to White House after the Republican from Ohio threw the debt ceiling talks into disarray by withdrawing from discussions.

The death toll in the twin attacks that hit Norway on Friday has gone beyond 80, even as police have arrested a Norwegian national suspected of carrying out the gun and bomb attack.

Google has acquired Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition (Pittpatt), a company that has developed facial recognition technology, months after it backed off from rolling out a face recognition smartphone app called Google Goggles in its bid to outsmart Apple and Facebook.

The United States will repeal a 1993 law that prohibits openly gay or bisexual people from serving in the military. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen have decided to recommend to President Barack Obama to repeal the Act..

Apple has said users are buying the Mac OS X Lion, the latest version of the company's desktop operating system, 'faster than any other OS release in Apple’s history.'

The trial of a 14-year-old hit man for a Mexican drug cartel, who admitted to beheading four people and suspected of killing three more, has started in Mexico.

James Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and News Corps' boss in Europe and Asia, has been accused of misleading British Parliament during a high-profile testimony conducted earlier this week. Former News of the World editor Colin Myler and former News International legal manager Tom Crone said they had informed Murdoch about an email that suggested phone hacking was widespread.

Trashing talk that some members of the Apple board have conducted discussions on CEO succession plans with executive head hunters, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said the rumors are mere 'hogwash'.