Video
Podcasts
BlogsPhoto Galleries
Your Say
Popular News
- New EU model after treaty agreement
- Deadly sniper rampage at Texas base
- Boxing world awaits David v Goliath
- Sri Lanka's unskilled migrants asylum solution
- Killer survived shooting spree
- Fans farewell Don Lane
- Heads roll over gender test handling
- Londoners baffled by sex broadcast
- Glasses to trump translators
- Experts shocked at Google Dashboard
- Australia expels Fiji's top diplomat
- Sri Lankan accusations 'a joke'
- PNG inquiry hears claims of Asian crime
- Israelis 'seize Iran arms ship'
- Frosty reception for man-made snowstorm
- Vocational colleges close in NSW, Vic
- Glasses to trump translators
- Officials probe building collapse
- Leaking oil well plugged, fire contained
- Building collapses in Melbourne
- Should a halt to settlements expansion be a pre-requisite to peace talks?
- Sri Lanka's unskilled migrants asylum solution
- Little fanfare for Obama anniversary
- Killer survived shooting spree
- Mayor: Pay 'underclass' not to breed
- Govt policy 'led to asylum seekers surge'
- Italy school crucifixes 'barred'
- Big four banks match RBA rate rise
- Australia expels Fiji's top diplomat
- Frosty reception for man-made snowstorm
Beatles taken off website
07 Nov 2009, 10:45AM
London-based record label EMI has won an injunction against website BlueBeat.com which it said was selling Beatles songs without permission.- Beatles remasters heading to USB
- Beatles' 'Lucy in the Sky' dies at 46
- Can Beatles revive video game industry?
Genome sequenced for US$1,700
06 Nov 2009, 11:24AM
Privately held Complete Genomics says it can do a better quality, usable genome map for about US$4,400
Swine flu 'becomes most common strain'
06 Nov 2009, 10:20AM
The World Health Organisation's flu chief said the swine flu virus has now become the predominant flu strain worldwide.
Experts shocked at Google Dashboard
06 Nov 2009, 12:11PM
Google's new dashboard service allows users to see - and delete - data that the search engine has stored on them.
'Herbal' sex pill health risk exposed
06 Nov 2009, 9:20AM
The US food and drug safety watchdog says that an over-the-counter men's sex aid, labelled as all-natural, contains a chemical similar to one in Viagra.
OTHER TOP STORIES
LATEST FROM THE WIRE
"Call of Duty" game shoots to make history
07 Nov 2009, 9:34AM
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Forget the buzz over the next "Twilight" film or James Cameron's "Avatar." The biggest entertainment hit of the holiday season may come on Tuesday, when "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" hits stores.
Louvre plays home to Apple's first French store
07 Nov 2009, 4:42AM
PARIS (Reuters) - Computer giant Apple Inc will open its first French store beneath the Louvre museum on Saturday just two weeks after Microsoft opened a theme cafe to promote its Windows 7 software.
Animals need to be closely watched for flu
06 Nov 2009, 9:57PM
GENEVA (Reuters) - Some pigs, turkeys and household pets have become infected with the H1N1 flu, but the pandemic virus does not yet appear to be spreading quickly among animals, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
Study suggests peat CO2 credits more valuable
06 Nov 2009, 2:39PM
JAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesia-based study is showing carbon-rich tropical peat lands trap more greenhouse gases than first thought, driving up their potential value on the carbon market and strengthening the case for their protection.
Canada to investigate disappearing Pacific salmon
06 Nov 2009, 10:02AM
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Canada will launch an investigation into why far fewer sockeye salmon than scientists had predicted returned to the Fraser River on the Pacific Coast this summer.
Verizon to sell HTC Android phone for $99.99
06 Nov 2009, 8:55AM
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless said on Thursday that it would sell an HTC Corp <2498.TW> phone based on Google Inc's
06 Nov 2009, 6:41AM
LONDON (Billboard) - The Beatles remasters are coming out on a limited-edition apple-shaped USB drive in time for Christmas, marking the first time the Fab Four's catalog has officially been sold as digital files separate from the CDs.
Walmart.com offers top 10 pre - order DVD movie titles at $10
05 Nov 2009, 11:58PM
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc is offering its top 10 pre-order DVD movie titles at just $10 and free home delivery on its entire assortment of DVD and Blu-ray titles in another move to win holiday sales.
China says space plans peaceful
05 Nov 2009, 9:41PM
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's foreign ministry insisted on Thursday that the country's intentions in space were peaceful, after comments from top air force brass preparing to celebrate a 60th anniversary worried analysts in the United States.
Bypass surgery safer using heart - lung pump: study
05 Nov 2009, 9:00AM
BOSTON (Reuters) - Allowing the heart to keep beating during coronary bypass surgery is riskier than stopping the heart and using a heart-lung machine to keep the patient alive, researchers reported on Wednesday.
