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A new unconfirmed report has emerged suggesting that Apple plans to announce a new version of iPod Touch alongside its highly anticipated, though currently unconfirmed, iPhone 5 smartphone in the very near future.

Sep 20, 2011

Facebook may be set to incorporate music, films and television into profile pages, with users able to consume and share multimedia content on the social network like never before.

Sep 20, 2011

Facebook has decided that we need more buttons, and that "Liking" just isn't enough. Sadly we won't be seeing the sought-after "Dislike" button just yet, but according to TechCrunch we'll soon get three new buttons: "Read", "Listened" and "Watched".

Sep 20, 2011

New reports indicate that at least seven individuals have been arrested during Adbusters' ongoing Occupy Wall Street protest, one for wearing the "V" mask used by hacker collective Anonymous.

Sep 20, 2011

The New York Times' Nick Bilton has added fuel to the iPhone rumour fire, alleging to have inside knowledge confirming Apple's big revelation is mere "weeks away."

Sep 16, 2011

Declining Cancer Rates in U.S. Direct Consequence of Dramatic Fall in Smoking. The declining rates of cancer in America are the direct consequence of U.S cities becoming tougher on smokers. U.S citizens are now turning away from smoking and as a direct results U.S citizens are becoming healthier.

Sep 16, 2011

A Spanish court has decided to reopen an investigation into allegations a Saudi billionaire prince and nephew of King Abdullah, raped a model on a yacht in the Mediterranean three years ago, the AFP reported Wednesday.

Sep 15, 2011

With the tenth anniversary 9/11 fast approaching, U.S. counter-terrorism officials say the threat of a car or truck bomb attack in New York or Washington is "specific, credible but unconfirmed."

Sep 09, 2011

The bi-annual New York Fashion Week started September 8 and many online platforms are innovatively covering the event.

Sep 08, 2011

The Israeli government is finding itself in an increasingly difficult position after, in addition to being faced with internal and external protests, Turkey has announced its intention to expel the Israeli ambassador and to suspend all remaining military agreements with Israel after details emerged of a United Nations report into last year's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla.

Sep 02, 2011

After months of conflict, the rebels control most of Tripoli, but there is still no news of Moammar Gaddafi and his followers are still setting up resistance.

Aug 24, 2011

The affair in which Nafissatou Diallo accuses Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former managing director of the International Monetary Fund,(IMF), of forcing her into oral sex and trying to rape her on May 14 in his New York hotel suite, has made the headlines for more than three months, but sources say the case is about to be dropped.

Aug 22, 2011

As the Libyan conflict continues to drag on, more and more conflicting reports emerge, making it difficult to dissociate propaganda from facts.

Aug 10, 2011

The International Olympic Committee remains confident that the 2012 Olympic Games will proceed as planned, despite the recent disorder in London and across the UK.

Aug 10, 2011

Dominique Strauss-Kahn is now embroiled in a new lawsuit after the chambermaid who pressed charges for sexual assault against him in a hotel in Manhattan three months ago, now filed a lawsuit accusing him coming at her from behind with "depravity in his heart."

Aug 09, 2011

After months of blaming al-Qaeda style Islamists for the uprising that led to the implementation of a NATO-led operation in Libya, the Gadhafi regime it seems is ready for an image overhaul.

Aug 04, 2011

The head of the Libyan rebels' armed forces and two of his aides were killed by gunmen on Thursday, and despite officially confirming the news, the death of Gadhafi's former close friend is still surrounded by mystery.

Jul 29, 2011

Just over 38 years ago, on 17 July 1973, King Zahir Shah of Afghanistan was overthrown in a coup d'état whilst undergoing medical treatment in Italy, by his Prime Minister and cousin, Mohammed Daoud Khan. Anyone can be forgiven for missing the 38th anniversary of the First Republic celebrations in Kabul as there don't appear to have been any.

Jul 27, 2011

China has revealed new plans to increase government surveillance of its citizen's internet use.

Jul 26, 2011

OPINION: Michele Bachmann got into a bit of hot water when she appeared to suggest that slavery might have had some benefits for black families.

Jul 11, 2011

Michele Bachmann's signing of "The Marriage Vow" pledge, supported by the Christian values group The Family Leader was met with outrage over the weekend and threatens to derail the tea-party darling's Republican nomination campaign. The nominee from Minnesota had been doing so well. She was almost level with Mitt Romney for the GOP nomination after a strong performance in the first Republican debate last month. She had even managed to generally avoiding the campaign gaffes that derai...

Jul 11, 2011

A New York Court just ruled that Dominique Strauss-Kahn is to be released without bail, but prosecutors are not completely abandoning the case and the ex IMF chief is due to appear again on July 18.

Jul 01, 2011

The prosecution case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund and French presidential hopeful accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid, is close to collapse, a report in the New York Times has claimed.

Jul 01, 2011

It was a glorious, sunny day as I took my wife and kids to the Kasteel Meulen (Castle Mill) at the very top of the village of Mont Cassel, about 18 miles from Dunkerque. My children were excited to see a working windmill but, regrettably, there was not a breath of wind in the shimmering mid-summer heat and so, Blue Peter-like, we had to buy a bag of flour that the miller had already made.

Jun 24, 2011

Embattled Representative Anthony Weiner has told friends that he plans to resign his seat amid the controversy over his online relationships with several women, The Associated Press reports.

Jun 16, 2011

Pakistan's top spy agency has arrested five Pakistani informants who assisted the CIA ahead of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.

Jun 15, 2011

A recent comment from an unnamed security expert to Bloomberg has indicated that like the recent attempt on Google's Gmail service, the recently revealed cyber attack on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) could have been state sponsored.

Jun 13, 2011

In the wake of Citibank's admission of a security breach on its network, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has since confirmed that it too has been the target of a sophisticated cyber attack perpetrated by an as yet unknown group of hackers or hacker.

Jun 13, 2011

With youth unemployment remaining at near record levels many university students graduating in the coming months will face a slew of challenges unique to their generation.

Gordon Macrae Jun 10, 2011

Amnesty International has been fighting torture and illegal imprisonment from its beginning. Since 1962 the group has denounced countries throughout the world where people are being detained and imprisoned arbitrarily without a fair trial, thus facing torture or other forms of ill-treatment while many are held in conditions that are so poor that these amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights no-one may be subjected to arbitrary ...

Jun 01, 2011