OPINION

Using the social media to predict the stock market sentiments is a bizarre task but it is not possible to ascertain the moods or emotions of investors by mining the huge chunk of data sets, especially from Twitter.

Wayne Rooney's protestation over Vincent Kompany's tackle on Luis Nani in Manchester United's FA Cup match-up with Manchester City seems to have stirred up debate amongst football pundits over whether the 'imaginary red card' is indeed an inherent problem in the Premier League.

Opinion: Republican Lamar Smith, author of a US bill to stop online piracy, seems to be guilty of the very crime he is trying to legislate against.

Jeremy Clarkson has apologised for his comments made on the One Show about executing public workers who took strike action, but would the BBC have received over 21,000 complaints if we didn't have Twitter?

I’m fortunate to have a platform on which I can be opinionated. I try to write once a week on subjects that I feel passionate about in a personal capacity; it’s one of the perks of working in journalism.

Cloud computing, such as iTunes Match, iCloud and Amazon Music will not work in the UK because our infrastructure is outdated and overpriced.

The iPad 2 has been with us since spring and with the iPhone and iPod ranges both seeing yearly updates, it stands to reason that Apple will be releases an iPad 3 in the first quarter of 2012.

Israel's insistence on the need for a pre-emptive strike on Iran belies the Jewish nation's own murky history when it comes to nuclear arsenal.

It is time Karl Marx's classic opening statement of the Communist Manifesto is reworded into something on the lines of: "A spectre is haunting Europe ­- the spectre of a double dip. All the powers of Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre."

The mounting crisis that has gripped the Eurozone countries seems to have boosted China's ongoing efforts to secure a prominent diplomatic space among its western allies.

There will never be a better opportunity to hold a referendum on the UK's membership with the EU.

Rumours of an Apple television have done the rounds before and resulting in nothing more than the Apple TV set-top box, that Steve Jobs referred to as "a hobby" after it sold badly.

For a start: My apologies to those who enjoy my weekly musings, for I completely ran out of time to write this last week. I will however be presenting a fortnight-worthy piece, today.

Christopher Moran, a senior figure in the City of London and Conservative supporter has said: “Britain must support the Euro” to improve the ailing economic climate.

British Gas owner Centrica Plc has responded to mounting criticism from politicians about high energy bills by pledging not to raise its energy prices this winter.

Perhaps the most famous prisoner in the Middle East, Gilad Shalit (or rather, the campaign for his release) has proved a powerful rallying point for Israeli's over the past five years. But the young soldier has also been used as a political pawn by the Israeli government to justify their blockade of the Gaza strip.

Despite international recognition, Italy continues to bury its head in the sand when it comes to tackling the Mafiosi who, it is said, run the country from behind the scenes.

The economic troubles and debt crises currently affecting Britain, the U.S.A. and most obviously the eurozone are not, according to Chancellor George Osborne, an "act of God" but are the result of human folly and will be solved be human ingenuity.

The founders of music-sharing website Napster are teaming up to create a social network with celebrity investors that will take cues from Chatroulette.

It certainly has been an interesting week for those of us working on the technology desk, it’s flown by.

Catgate, which derived from a Theresa May's claim that a Bolivian immigrant avoided deportation due to his pet cat, has rocked the cabinet and the Home Secretary's credibility, with the judiciary even commenting on the affair.

Apple yesterday announced the iPhone 4S, and while it remains visually almost identical to the iPhone 4, it does pack some powerful new software in the form of 'personal assistant' Siri.

British Prime Minister David Cameron, accompanied by his foreign minister, paid a visit on Sept. 15 to Tripoli, the recently liberated capital of Libya. This was the first visit there by the head of state of a key European country since the deposition of former Libyan President Col. Moammar Gadhafi.

The Labour party conference 2011, second in the series of the UK's major parties' self-review, was a real sandwich between the preceding one of LibDems and the succeeding ones of Tories coming next week.

The news that Anwar al-Awlaki has been killed in Yemen, courtesy of a U.S. drone attack, must surely round off a pretty poor week in an even worse year for the followers of Al-Qaeda.

Twitter is a fantastic resource for journalists. Information in its simplest and purest form is splashed over the micro-blogging site within seconds of an event happening. However, it also leaves a lot of room for abuse, discrepancies and libellous comments.

For protesters still reeling from the execution of Troy Davis in Georgia, his death provides yet more evidence that the U.S. should abolish the death penalty.

Months after ousting Mubarak, the dictator who many called the Pharaoh, Egyptians are still living under emergency laws and are ruled by a military council full of the former president's old ministers and advisors while the economic and social situation has slowly continued to degrade.

The Tea Party debate held on CNN provoked uproar after the GOP audience cheered and screamed "Yeah!" after crank Ron Paul suggested letting the uninsured die because "that's what freedom's all about."