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The Apple Let's talk iPhone event is hours away and consumers are expecting the company to showcase its highly anticipated iPhone 5.

California-based technology giant Apple Inc. has rejected an offer from rivals, South Korea-based Samsung Electronics Co., that would have allowed the latter to release its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in Australia, according to Appleinsider.

A scientist who won the Nobel prize for medicine on Monday used his own discoveries to treat himself for cancer, but died of the disease just days before he could be told of the award.

Canada-born Ralph M. Steinman, of New York's Rockefeller University, who was honored with the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his groundbreaking work on the immune system, died of cancer just days before he could be told of the award.

The Arctic saw massive ozone losses in 2011 due to a prolonged period of extremely low temperatures in the stratosphere, according to a NASA-led study.

Tim Cook will speak from Cupertino, California.

The much-anticipated Apple news is forthcoming

David Lavau, 68, who had been reported missing on Sept. 23, was rescued last Thursday by his three adult children from the bottom of a rugged ravine located at Angeles National Forest, approximately 50 miles north of Los Angeles, authorities have confirmed.

Female “Broadway Bound” sea lion recovering after being shot, found on highway.

A California lettuce farmer has recalled almost 2,500 cartons of chopped romaine lettuce because of possible listeria contamination, which is responsible for multi-state outbreak linked with tainted cantaloupes.

Actor Seth Rogen married his long-term girlfriend, screenwriter Lauren Miller, in a ceremony on Sunday.

The U.S. government dangled a million-dollar carrot in front of the aviation industry to develop fuel-efficient aircraft and usher in a new electric airplane industry. On Monday, one competitor, team Pipistrel-USA.com of State College, Pa., came forth as the winner and grabbed the $1.35 million prize in the CAFE Green Flight Challenge, sponsored by search-engine hub Google and awarded by NASA.

Hewlett-Packard completed its $12 billion buy of British software firm Autonomy on Monday, the centerpiece of a botched strategy shift that cost ex-chief executive Leo Apotheker his job last month.

With Apple's next iPhone announcement just a day away, experts and analysts make their last-minute predictions on what the world can expect to see come out of Cupertino tomorrow.

California's Air Resources Board (CARB) can proceed with implementation of the state's cap-and-trade program, a Supreme Court judge ruled Wednesday.

Oct 4. is the day we have all been waiting for - the Apple keynote event Let's Talk iPhone. This event will begin at 10 a.m. Pacific time in Cupertino, CA, and 1 p.m. Eastern time.

The big news from the Bluth Family Reunion panel at the New Yorker Festival was series creator Mitch Hurwitz's announcement of an Arrested Development return to TV before the long-anticipated movie.

Westinghouse Solar Inc expects to start posting profits next year after years of losses, as a deal to buy cheaper solar panels should help it cut prices and increase sales, its chief executive told Reuters.

The 2011 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, was awarded on Monday to Bruce Beutler and Jules Hoffmann jointly for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity and the other half to Ralph Steinman for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity.

Seated in the conference room of his wealth management firm in San Ramon, Calif., Rich Arzaga breaks out a few tools to explain the investment advantages of oil and gas drilling programs. He’s got a fine-point pen and a sketch pad — but alas, no milkshake a la Daniel Day-Lewis in “There Will Be Blood.”

The Supreme Court opened its new term on Monday and considered whether Medicaid recipients and medical providers may sue California for cutting reimbursement rates in the healthcare program for low-income Americans.