It’s a girl, a film being released this year, documents the practice of killing unwanted baby girls in South Asia. The trailer’s most chilling scene is one with an Indian woman who, unable to ...

When the Obama administration announced on Saturday its opposition to major elements of two Congressional bills intended to curtail copyright violations on the Internet, the technology industry, which has been loudly fighting the proposed ...

While death bed confessions were once all the rage, a new Facebook application allows users to spill their hearts from beyond the grave. Now, when people ask ‘If I die before I wake’, the ...

(Reuters) - Media baron Rupert Murdoch used his new Twitter account this weekend to attack the Obama administration's opposition to parts of proposed legislation designed to combat Internet piracy. "So Obama has thrown in his ...

A 12-year-old boy found guilty of murdering his 11-year-old sister said he was forced to confess to the murder after hours of 'terrifying' police interrogation - although he had nothing to do with it. Police ...

A new fighter plane which is to be used by the UK and U.S. military has a design flaw which prevents it from landing on aircraft carriers, it has emerged. The flaw in the Joint ...

The UN in Somalia says tens of thousands of people will have died of starvation by the time the famine in the Horn of Africa ends. The food crisis was declared in Somalia six months ...

(Reuters) - Dozens of al Qaeda militants have seized a small town about 170 km (105 miles) southeast of Yemen's capital Sanaa, a police source and witnesses said on Sunday. They said the militants entered ...

Ahead of the Davos summit, Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn talks to The Sunday Telegraph about the outlook for Europe, the US economy and whether 2012 holds any rays of hope. For the headquarters ...

BEIJING — Chinese security forces on Saturday fired into a crowd of Tibetans in a restive area of Sichuan Province after they tried to take away the body of a Tibetan man who had ...

Italian prime minister Mario Monti travels to the UK on Wednesday for his first official visit since taking office, amid concerns that organised crime has tightened its grip on his country's economy. He has been ...

Tunisia is marking the first anniversary of the revolution that triggered the Arab Spring and changed the face of the entire region. And while the country can boast a peaceful transition of power, radical ...

(Reuters) - When Italian construction group Perego was struggling back in 2008, a white knight flush with cash rode to its rescue. Unfortunately the "knight" was a powerful mafia organisation, the 'Ndrangheta, which went on ...

The eurozone crisis entered a dangerous new phase as France and eight other European countries had their credit ratings downgraded. Italy saw its long-term rating drop by two notches, along with Spain, Portugal and ...

At least three people were killed and more than 4,000 passengers and crew were rescued last night after a packed cruise liner began sinking off the Italian coast after running aground. Twenty-four British holidaymakers were ...

A British student faces up to a decade in a U.S. prison for actions which are not even a crime in the UK. Campaigners say Richard O’Dwyer, 23, is being abandoned by his country in ...

The overwhelming majority (80pc) of gold mining executives think the price will keep climbing in 2012, with just 6pc anticipating a fall, a survey by PwC found. Last year, mounting fears over the eurozone ...

ATHENS (Reuters)- With the money tight all over Europe, one high-flying Greek businessman allegedly found a novel way of getting easy credit: two years ago he bought a controlling share in a bank, installed ...

Hope you’re not shy, because there’s a good chance you’re being watched by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. According to a government document, the DHS has been monitoring social media as well as ...

Apple has said it will halt the sale of all iPhone models from its stores in China, after large crowds disrupted the launch of the iPhone 4S. An Apple store, in the Sanlitun area of ...

The Syrian Addounia TV channel has broadcast a video it said was filmed in the aftermath of an attack on the government-escorted media trip to Homs, a city that has borne much of the ...

(Reuters) - A quiet Internet revolution begins on Thursday. Organizations can begin applying to name and run their own domains instead of entrusting them to the operators of .com, .org, .gov and others. Up to ...

Amy Francis underwent surgery for kidney cancer Trainee loses confidence during operation. Liver ruptures causing death. Hospital admits to error. A widow died on an operating table after a surgeon tried to remove the wrong organ, an ...

A US Army analyst suspected of causing the biggest leak of classified information in the country's history should face a court martial, a military tribunal has said. Bradley Manning allegedly gave more than 700,000 secret ...

In the wake of his second-place showing in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday night, Texas Rep. Ron Paul declared: “We are dangerous to the status quo of this country”. He’s right. And that could ...

Skyscrapers have an 'unhealthy' link with impending financial collapse, according to banking experts. The news may bring fresh fears to Britain, where the tallest building in Western Europe - The Shard - is near completion ...

Hedge funds in New York and London are trying to profit from trading Greek government bonds as European banks brace for losses from a debt swap. Saba Capital Management LP, founded by former Deutsche ...

Twitter has complained about changes made by Google to integrate its social network Google+ into search results. The new feature, called Search plus Your World, will automatically push results from Google+ up the search rankings. Tweeting ...

(Reuters) - A backlash against rising inequality - evident from the Occupy movement to the Arab Spring - risks derailing the advance of globalisation and represents a threat to economies worldwide, according to the ...

Only difference from normal posts is two tiny words saying 'featured content' If you have ever 'liked' anything, you could start advertising to friends Facebook will insert one advert per day - for ...

GlaxoSmithKline, Britain's biggest drug firm, has been fined by an Argentine court over clinical trials of a pneumonia vaccine which was tested on thousands of babies from poor families. The firm failed to get ...

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Britain's two state-owned banks have hired eight separate lobbying and public affairs companies at a cost of hundreds of thousands of pounds a year, The Independent has learnt. The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), which ...

The new year in Egypt has ushered in a new parliament, dominated for the first time in Egypt's history by Islamists. And with that comes the question of just how those newly empowered ...

The Intel-led legion of thin, light and beautiful may look like the future of laptops, but at the moment, their prices could give you a heart attack. Many of the ones on display at ...

Marijuana smokers performed better on tests of lung function compared to nonsmokers and cigarette smokers. Marijuana does not impair lung function—at least not in the doses inhaled by the majority of users, according to the ...

A man has killed himself by leaping into a vat of whisky at the Glenfiddich Distillery. Brian Ettles, 46, drowned after he threw himself inside the 50,000-litre tank. Paramedics and firefighters were called to the scene ...

(Reuters) - Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook received a one-time stock award worth nearly $400 million, the largest given by a company in a decade. The company's board granted Cook 1 million restricted stock ...

The US schools with their own police. More and more US schools have police patrolling the corridors. Pupils are being arrested for throwing paper planes and failing to pick up crumbs from the canteen floor. ...

Wall Street’s biggest firms, facing a slump in investment-banking revenue, are considering freezing compensation levels for some junior bankers, according to people familiar with the deliberations. Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN) is likely to ...

Some brides believe their marriages will last longer if they go knicker-less at the altar/ A Brazilian councillor has proposed a law to force brides to wear knickers at the altar. Ozias Zizi claims that a ...

Eric Cantona, the former Manchester United striker, has said he wants to run in this year's presidential election in France and is trying to gather the signatures needed to do so. The footballer, who ...

(Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland is likely to cut between 3,000 and 4,000 investment banking jobs as part of an overhaul of the business to be unveiled this week, a person familiar with ...

(KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia) — Malaysia's High Court acquitted opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim of sodomizing a former aide, citing unreliable DNA evidence in a verdict Monday that surprised supporters who saw the case as ...

(Reuters) - After six months of scandal and crisis management in the wake of the phone-hacking affair at its UK tabloid papers, shares of News Corp have touched new heights as investors say the ...

A court in the United States will be asked to rule later that interviews with former terrorists should not be handed over to NI authorities. Last year, the PSNI launched a legal bid to gain ...

Captain and first officer report feeling 'light-headed' as craft reaches 20,000 feet Passengers hear 'panicked' captain call for help from senior cabin. They are supplied with oxygen masks and request emergency return to Heathrow/ A British ...

Security breach by Anonymous 'hacktivists' reveals email addresses of 221 British military staff and 242 Nato officials Thousands of British email addresses and encrypted passwords, including those of defence, intelligence and police officials as well ...

The tablet from the One Laptop Per Child organisation has been expected for some time now, and was originally planned for 2010, so confirmation it will launch at CES is welcome news. It's a ...

Morgan Stanley (MS), the bank that underwrote the initial public offerings of Zynga Inc. and LinkedIn Corp. last year, bought shares of both social-media companies in the fourth quarter. The New York-based firm now ...