Facebook has unveiled tools to give users more control over personal information and let them set up cliques of friends.
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams has stepped down as chief executive in order to focus on "product strategy".
The United States, inspired by a sizzling birdie run from Stewart Cink, came from behind to seize control in Friday’s unfinished fourball matches.
Experiments in 1940s saw hundreds of Guatemalan prisoners and soldiers deliberately infected to test effects of penicillin.
Tony Curtis,one of the biggest box-office stars of the 1950s and Sixties and one of Hollywood’s busiest playboys, died at his home on Wednesday.
US approached with deal to continue building moratorium in exchange for the release of Jonathan Pollard, convicted of spying in 1987.
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/ 29 September 2010
American golfing greats Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson may be Ryder Cup teammates but they will never be friends.
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/ 29 September 2010
Barack Obama’s senior aide, a profane "piledriver", looks likely to quit so he can seek to become mayor of Chicago.
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/ 28 September 2010
BP’s bill for containing and cleaning up the oil spill has reached nearly $10-billion.
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/ 27 September 2010
One in seven Americans now live on or below the poverty line, according to figures published recently by the United States Census Bureau.
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/ 25 September 2010
A judge late on Friday granted an appeal to release actress Lindsay Lohan from jail less than nine hours after she was placed behind bars.
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/ 24 September 2010
A US grandmother was put to death by lethal injection in Virgina, the first women executed in the state for nearly a century.
Barack Obama was forced into a damage-limitation exercise on Wednesday after a new book by veteran investigative reporter Bob Woodward.
Ernie Els, whose 62 global victories include two US Open triumphs and a British Open title, has been elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame.
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/ 22 September 2010
African leaders said on Tuesday they could do more to meet UN goals to slash extreme poverty and urged stronger leadership among developing countries.
Billionaire Richard Branson has urged people to invest in Zimbabwe, saying the world was wrong to wait instead of helping the nation.
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/ 21 September 2010
While prosecutors examine his past as part of an investigation into doping, Lance Armstrong is sticking to a relentless public schedule.
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/ 21 September 2010
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pressed debt-ridden donor countries on Monday not to cut aid to the poor despite their budgetary woes.
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/ 20 September 2010
United States officials have finally declared BP’s broken well in the Gulf of Mexico "dead", five months after a deadly oil-rig blast.
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/ 19 September 2010
Airlines’ shareholders approve tie-up, as unions fear job cuts and customers mourn end of United’s tulip logo.
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/ 19 September 2010
The launch of PlayStation Move and Xbox Kinect signals a revolution in the way that we interact through the internet.
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/ 18 September 2010
Harrisburg University in Pennsylvania initiates "blackout" of all social networking sites to discover effects of multitasking.
Barack Obama’s achievements are insufficient, his party confused. Ahead of the elections, reactionaries are seizing the initiative.
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/ 15 September 2010
The US said on Tuesday it was stepping up efforts for a peaceful transition in Sudan ahead of a referendum.
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/ 15 September 2010
A conservative "Tea Party" favourite knocked off the establishment choice in Delaware’s Republican Senate primary election on Tuesday.
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/ 15 September 2010
When John Brewer’s construction business soured along with the US economy, he sought to replace lost income by prospecting for gold.
Rafa Nadal sealed his place among the tennis greats on Monday, beating Novak Djokovic to win the US Open.
A symbolic funeral held to give hurricane victims closure has highlighted the ongoing trauma faced by those who fled and those who have returned.
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/ 13 September 2010
Rafa Nadal will have to wait at least one more day for a chance to complete his collection of grand slam titles after rain washed out the US Open.
On the anniversary of 9/11, Brooklyn Muslims voice their fears over what has happened to their adopted country.
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/ 12 September 2010
Novak Djokovic tore up the script at the US Open on Sunday, defeating Roger Federer in a pulsating semifinal.
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/ 12 September 2010
Belgium’s Kim Clijsters won her second straight US Open women’s title on Saturday after crushing seventh-seeded Russian Vera Zvonareva 6-2, 6-1.