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It wasn't exactly a knockout, but DreamWorks' robot-boxing movie Real Steel packed enough punch to win the domestic box office this weekend with $27.3 million.

Researchers have stumbled upon fossil remains of the 120-million-year-old ancient silky lacewings insect from Mesozoic origins of China.

The shipping estimate for Apple’s new iPhone 4S indicates that customers pre-ordered the new smartphone can expect their devices to be shipped from one to two weeks.

New Zealand stepped one step closer to a World Cup victory at home after crushing Argentina in the quarterfinals at Eden Park in Auckland.

Defending champions South Africa were knocked out of the Rugby World Cup 2011 after Australia came out top in the quarterfinals at Wellington.

Representatives of the two ex-lovers--Blake Lively and Leonardo DiCaprio confirmed to Us Weekly on Oct. 4 that the ex-lovers’ five-month dating had ended, but the couple will “remain friends.”

Despite doleful predictions of an epic fail, Apple Inc. has hit yet another out-of-the-park home run with its new iPhone 4S. By all accounts, the new smartphone has had a tremendous response from consumers.

Only a few months after giving birth to son Flynn, Australian supermodel Miranda Kerr is back with a bang: The Victoria's Secret Angel has posed for her first nude photo shoot since the delivery.

Given the likelihood one of the biggest rivals of the iPhone 4S will be the Samsung Galaxy S2, it will be interesting to have a comparison of the features of the two competitors.

The boy is the youngest Australian to be arrested under Indonesia's drug laws.

Australian actress Diane Cilento, nominated for an Oscar in the 1960s for her role in Tom Jones and ex-wife of James Bond star Sean Connery, has died after a long illness, local media reported on Friday. She was 78.

Occupy Portland, the latest in the Occupy Wall Street movements sweeping the nation's cities, began this morning despite having no permit.

Apple fans from New York to Australia gathered to mourn the death of Steve Jobs, leaving Apple products, bouquets and heartfelt messages in tribute to the man who transformed the computing, music and phone industries.

High in the hills of Congo's troubled northeast, a modern mine is ready to pour gold for the first time in five decades.

A patent war between Samsung Electronics and Apple continues to heat up, as the South Korean Galaxy smartphone maker on Wednesday said it will be filing infringement claims in France and Italy in order to ban the sale of the iPhone 4S.

The Coast Guard is investigating how two scuba divers were left three miles off the Florida Coast on Sunday by Miami Beach dive company RJ Diving Ventures.

In Italy, the murder rate amounted to 1.0 homicide per 100,000 inhabitants, the second-lowest figure in Europ

He will likely best be remembered for his heroics as a batsman in the 1981 Ashes

Samsung is accusing Apple of infringing two patents related to Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) standards for 3G mobile handsets.

Samsung Electronics said it will file patent-infringement claims in France and Italy to ban the sale of Apple's new iPhone less than a day after it was unveiled, intensifying a legal battle between the two top brands.

Samsung has said that it will be filing for the preliminary injunction requests for a ban on iPhone 4S sales with courts in France and Italy since the phone infringed its patents.