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Taiwanese phone maker HTC Corp. joined the tablet bandwagon as it released its Android-based 7-inch tablet the Flyer, stoking competition in the 7-inch form factor which includes players like Samsung Galaxy Tab and Dell Streak 7.

Alcohol causes nearly 4 percent of deaths worldwide, more than AIDS, tuberculosis or violence, the World Health Organization warned on Friday.

She has had a long history of physical ailments

Power cuts, shortages of medicine and cooking gas, empty cash machines, depleted shops and piles of uncollected trash: these were things Ivorians used to see as the scourge of their poorer West African neighbours.

The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Sequenom, Whole Foods Market, Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Clearwire, and Xenoport. The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Idenix Pharmaceuticals, EZchip Semiconductor, Amkor Technology, TriQuint Semiconductor, Akamai Technologies, and Cisco Systems.

The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Select Comfort, Whole Foods Market, 1-800-Flowers.com, SuccessFactors, and LeCroy. The top after-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Idenix Pharmaceuticals, Pacer International, TriQuint Semiconductor, Amkor Technology, and Akamai Technologies.

Obama kicked smoking habit almost a year back and didn’t have had a cigarette since then, says first lady Michelle Obama.

The Peace Corps has released its 2011 rankings of universities and colleges in the United States, in terms of volunteers from these institutions who live and work in foreign countries around the world.

Proposed changes to revenue sharing within the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) are unacceptable because they place an unfair burden on its poorer members, a senior Namibian official said on Friday.

The Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU) is considering a major overhaul of revenue-sharing that will see South Africa keeping a far bigger slice of pooled customs receipts, according to a policy document.

The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Silicon Graphics International, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Shutterfly, Netlist, and Sangamo BioSciences. The top after-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: THQ, Intersil, SunPower, Tetra Tech, and Rightnow Technologies.

Artists, designers, entertainers and philanthropists are joining forces for the second annual green auction, which last year raised over $2 million for environmental groups.

For the first time since overthrown by a popular uprising in 1986, expatriated former dictator of Haiti, Jean-Claude Duvalier, on Sunday unexpectedly returned to his Caribbean homeland. Duvalier's stunning arrival was as mysterious as it was unexpected.

Porsche 918 RSR and Audi A6, which made their debut at the2011 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), received awards for the EyesOn Design category.

Google is planning to launch an online applications store offering popular educational software.

German researchers say they have cured a man of HIV infection that could prove to be a scientific advance but researchers familiar with the work feel it is not necessarily a treatment advance.

GENTAG, Inc. and its partners have come out with a new disposable wireless diagnostic test platform for consumer cell phones. The technology, based on immunoassays, can test for pregnancy, fertility, pathogens, AIDS, drugs, allergens and even certain types of cancers.

A recent study shows that incorporating almonds into your diet can help treat and possibly prevent type 2 diabetes, as well as cardiovascular disease.

Facebook's Cartoon Characters campaign spills all over the internet with an anti-child abuse message. The move has taken over Twitter and Google Trends while media could not resist coverage. Despite skepticism, the campaign has managed to create an impact.

Celebrity digital deaths were not able to garner $1 million for AIDS Charity

The full-text of the speech given by Fed Vice Chairman Janet L. Yellen at the Committee for Economic Development 2010 International Counterparts Conference in New York on Dec. 1, 2010