Western warplanes bombed Muammar Gaddafi’s tanks and artillery in eastern Libya to try to break a battlefield stalemate.
Japanese engineers were frantically attempting on Saturday to pump out puddles of radioactive water at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Apple remains ahead of the pack with the iPad 2, which offers faster web browsing, better graphics – and a really clever cover.
Pro-democracy flames have been fanned and may be increasingly hard to extinguish.
Hundreds of customers queued outside Apple stores in Asia and Europe to buy an iPad 2 tablet computer amid fears of shortages.
Canada’s opposition defeated Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s minority government in a no-confidence vote on Friday.
The operator of a Japanese nuclear plant on Friday reported possible damage to a reactor vessel, casting doubts over control of a radiation leak.
Western warplanes bombed Muammar Gaddafi’s armour in eastern Libya on Friday to try to break a battlefield stalemate and help rebels take Ajdabiyah.
New Zealand stunned South Africa on Friday by knocking the form team out of the World Cup in the third quarterfinal.
Small protests broke out in Bahrain’s capital for a planned Day of Rage on Friday despite a ban under martial law imposed last week, but were crushed.