South Korea’s Samsung Electronics said Monday it has withdrawn its new tablet computer from a major electronics fair in Berlin after a German court accepted a complaint from U.S. rival Apple. Samsung Sunday removed its Galaxy Tab 7.7 inch from the annual IFA show following an order Friday from a district court in Duesseldorf banning […]
Tony Blair – godfather to Murdoch’s youngest children
Tony Blair is godfather to Rupert Murdoch’s youngest children, according to an interview with the media tycoon’s wife. The former Prime Minister was reportedly present in March last year when Murdoch’s two daughters by his third wife, Wendi, were baptised by the banks of the Jordan. The information was not made public and its emergence […]
Woman tricked into buying wooden iPad
If a stranger approached you in a McDonald’s parking lot and offered to sell an iPad on the cheap, how would you react? For Ashley McDowell, the answer was an immediate yes. According to the sheriff’s office in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, in the US, Ms McDowell, 22, was picking up food at a McDonald’s […]
9/11 commission pinpoints US security gaps
The 9/11 commission was set up to make sure such an attack never happens again. A decade on, its members say key recommendations have not been heeded and holes remain in US terror defences. The commission, now reformed as an implementation group, acknowledges better collaboration between the CIA and the FBI and successes like the […]
Witness to Libyan prison massacre seeks justice for victims
Hussein Shafei prepared Saturday for a journey back to a place of darkness in Libya. Soon, he plans to stand again in Cell 14, Block 2 at the Abu Salim prison in Tripoli. Only this time, the metal door will not slam behind him, caging him in a bathroom-size cell. He will be a free […]
Al-Qaeda number two killed in Pakistan: US
Al-Qaeda’s number two Atiyah abd al-Rahman has been killed in Pakistan, the United States said on Saturday, claiming another “tremendous” blow to the group following the death of Osama bin Laden. News of Rahman’s demise comes as the US gears up to mark the 10th anniversary of al-Qaeda’s most spectacular attack, on September 11, 2001 […]
Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO
Apple’s legendary co-founder and top ideas man Steve Jobs resigned as chief executive Wednesday in a move long expected after he began a dramatic fight with cancer. In a written statement, Apple, the world’s second most valuable company by market capitalization, announced that chief operating officer Tim Cook would replace Jobs as CEO, and said […]
Malaysian ‘forces husband to hear mistress tortured’
A Malaysian woman has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping her husband’s mistress for several days and forcing him to listen by phone while his lover was tortured and beaten, police said on Wednesday. The enraged wife was arrested on Tuesday in a suburb of the capital Kuala Lumpur, after her husband filed a police report, […]
Rebels hunt Gaddafi relatives, supporters in Tripoli
Rebels fought gun battles in Tripoli with loyalists of Muammar Gaddafi on Wednesday as they hunted for his relatives and supporters, Reuters witnesses and an Arab television station said. A Reuters correspondent said bursts of gunfire rang out near the Corinthia Hotel in central Tripoli late on Wednesday and a column of smoke rose from […]
Prosecutors ask judge to dismiss Strauss-Kahn case
Prosecutors filed a motion to dismiss all the sexual assault and attempted rape charges against former IMF chief and one-time French presidential favorite Dominique Strauss-Kahn. A judge was expected to accept the dismissal of recommendation at a hearing on Tuesday, bringing to an end the three-month-long criminal case against Strauss-Kahn that has humiliated the French […]