Some 100 million Europeans using Microsoft software will be asked to choose among rival Web browsers by mid-May under a deal the company struck to settle antitrust action, the European Union said Tuesday.
Prosecutors seeking to indict five Americans on terrorist charges submitted their case to a Pakistani judge Tuesday, accusing the men of waging war [...]
A massive earthquake in Chile has left at least 700 people dead and over one million homes damaged. The magnitude 8.8 quake also caused a tsunami that threatened the island of Hawaii but washed ashore before it could create major damage. A geophysicist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said Hawaii “dodged a bullet.”
A New [...]
Today is the first day of a new decade.
WIRED.com takes a look at the greatest gadgets from the past decade. Highlights include Playstation 2 and the Apple Ipod.
Iranian security forces intensified their crackdown on anti-government supporters Tuesday, arresting relatives of the country’s Nobel laureate and the main opposition leader, and limiting the movement of another [...]
Amazon recently announced that its Kindle Device is the best selling gift on the store. Also, for the first time in history at Amazon, e-book sales for the Kindle overtook regular book sales.
Russia warns that it will reduce fuel supplies to Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary due to demands by Ukraine for higher transit [...]
Iran has test-fired what it claims is an improved version of its Sejil 2 medium-range missile, Wednesday, amid ongoing tension with the West over its nuclear program.
World leaders are racing against the clock in an attempt to forge a deal on climate change in Copenhagen that hinges on resolving sharp differences between rich and poorer [...]
Computers performing surgery might soon be upon us. A French team has developed a computerized 3D model that allows surgeons to use robotics to operate on a beating heart.
MIT and Boston University researchers have discovered that the drug hydroxyurea kills bacteria by inducing them to produce molecules toxic to themselves, a conclusion [...]
Top money managers at the Reuters Investment Summit said that the specter of sovereign default looms large for world economies in coming years, and the debt tsunami that has engulfed countries from the United States to Dubai poses a threat to recovery.
The long ordeal of Fouad al-Rabiah, an innocent man and a [...]
