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Delegates from the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have offered the president of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, and a proposal for him to step down from power, after months of unrest in the small, poverty-stricken country.

Researchers at a technology conference in San Francisco on Wednesday have accused Apple of breaching the privacy line of consumers by storing user's location and other details in a secret file.

Shares of RIM dropped one percent today on the news that early reviewers have not greeted RIM’s latest device with much enthusiasm.

Even as skeletal remains of more murder victims are dug out from a marshy Long Island beach, the police investigation has focused on the possibility of three serial killers having dumped dead bodies in the same area.

There are no links so far between recently found human remains in a miles-long stretch of beaches east of New York City, but their close proximity along southern Long Island has raised speculation that a serial killer may be responsible.

Joseph “Big Joey” Massino, the only mafia boss ever to become a government informant, is set to testify in the murder and racketeering trial of Vincent “Vinny Gorgeous” Basciano.

In another concession to unprecedented waves of protest, Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad has ordered a decree to grant Syrian nationality to thousands of Kurds whose citizenship has been revoked in the early 1960s in a census.

In a joint statement, the Fox network and Glenn Beck’s production company, Mercury Radio Arts, said they will work together to “develop and produce a variety of television projects for air on the FOX News Channel (FNC) as well as content for other platforms.”

A former U.S. politician plans to meet with Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi in Tripoli in order to propose a peace plan, according to CNN.

Charlie Sheen did not have a warm welcome when he kicked off his one-man-show tour in Detroit. The former Two and a Half Men star was met with boos during his performance Saturday night.

After weeks on unyielding unrest in Yemen, one of the most powerful allies of that country’s president, the United States, is now engineering a policy shift in which is not seeks to remove the Yemeni leader from power.

At least two of Moammar Gaddafi’s sons are backing a plan to remove their father from power and enable a transition into a constitutional democracy in Libya under the stewardship of his son Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, according to a report in the New York Times.

Facebook has taken down a page created by Palestinian supporters which called for a new ‘intifada’ (uprising) against Israel, after Israel officials and U.S. Jewish groups complained.

Reactions to President Barack Obama's speech on Monday varied broadly, from supporters calling it ambitious to concern that it was too vague, not clearly outlining when U.S. military force would be used in the future.

Kindle owners who subscribe to The New York Times via the e-reader will get free access to the newspaper's website, Amazon said

A number of loopholes and hacks have appeared in response to The Times' setting up a paywall.

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano said Saturday that Japan was ''still far from the end of the accident'' that hit a nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture, according to a report by the New York Times.

There are several differences between the facility at Indian Point and the Fukushima reactor, and those differences show that while Indian Point, like other nuclear power plants, has risks, they are different risks than those at Fukushima.

The Japanese government is urging residents who live between 20 and 30 kilometers from crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to voluntarily evacuate the region, citing the difficulties of daily life there and the possibility of more radiation leaks.

Amazon has launched its Android Appstore with curatorial element to take on the Android Market but in the process was sued by Apple for trademark violation.

A second statement from the company suggest that future 3DS shipments may be affected by the situation in Japan.