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Singer R. Kelly has emergency surgery on tonsil (AP)

AP - A spokesman for R. Kelly says the R&B singer is in the hospital after emergency throat surgery.[Read more...]

July 20, 2011 | Posted in Entertainment | Read More »

Holder open to meeting Sept 11 families on hacking (Reuters)

Reuters - Attorney General Eric Holder is willing to meet the families of people killed in the September 11 attacks who are concerned about reports that News Corp journalists may have tried to get victims’ phone records, his spokesman said on Tuesday.[Read more...]

July 20, 2011 | Posted in U.S. | Read More »

Hackers Target Apple

SAN FRANCISCO–A group of computer hackers on Sunday posted a document it claimed contains usernames and passwords for an Apple Inc. server, the latest in a string of brazen attacks that have compromised government and corporate websites around the world. “AntiSec,” a hacking campaign that includes hackers from both the online vigilante group Anonymous [...]

July 5, 2011 | Posted in Technology | Read More »

Samsung Drops One Of Its Many Law Suits Against Apple

It’s looking like Samsung and Apple got a bit carried away there for a while. Apparently the web of litigation surrounding the mobile giants has become too complicated for Samsung, who has chosen to drop one of its counter-suits against Apple. Specifically, the South Korea-based company will dismiss its counter-suit against Apple’s [...]

July 4, 2011 | Posted in Technology | Read More »

Socialists Open Door for Strauss-Kahn

PARIS—The French Socialist Party said Monday it could tweak its process for selecting its candidate for president should Dominique Strauss-Kahn decide to mount a bid, but acknowledged that such a scenario was unlikely. Socialist spokesman Benoît Hamon said the calendar for the primaries remains unchanged, but said an exception could be granted should [...]

July 4, 2011 | Posted in Top Stories, World | Read More »

US investigates leak ahead of oil stockpile release

The second day of dramatic oil price drops follows the global energy watchdog’s decision to release an extra 60m barrels of oil on to the market. By Rowena Mason, in London and Richard Blackden in New York 7:00AM BST 25 [...]

June 25, 2011 | Posted in Business | Read More »

Explosion Kills 2 at Foxconn Plant

SHANGHAI—A large explosion ripped through a Foxconn high-tech plant in southwestern China Friday night, killing at least two people and suspending production at the facility. View Full Image Reuters Employees work inside a Foxconn factory in a May 2010 file photo. Foxconn said the situation had been brought under control by the fire [...]

May 21, 2011 | Posted in Technology | Read More »

Explosion ‘kills two at Foxconn iPad 2 factory in China’

An injured man from a Foxconn factory is carried by medical staff into a hospital in Chengdu Photo: AP 11:17PM BST 20 May 2011 Comments The blast rocked the plant of a Foxconn subsidiary [...]

May 20, 2011 | Posted in U.K. | Read More »

Man dies after shooting in West London

The man was shot near the busy Westfield shopping complex at Shepherd’s Bush Photo: PA By Andrew Hough 5:30PM BST 09 May 2011 The man, aged in his 20s, was shot in West [...]

May 9, 2011 | Posted in U.K. | Read More »

Drug’s Shortage Prompts Finger-Pointing

A recent shortage of a drug for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in the U.S. has sparked a round of finger-pointing between Shire PLC and the Drug Enforcement Agency. Shire blames the shortage of branded and generic versions of its Adderall XR product on DEA limits on the amount of product Shire can manufacture. The Ireland-based company [...]

May 6, 2011 | Posted in health | Read More »