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Comet ISON — once touted as the "comet of the century" — fizzled out during its swing around the sun, leaving behind what scientists said was a trail of dust that continued rolling through space. "It does seem that Comet ISON probably hasn't survived this journey," Karl...

Angola became a hot topic in the international media over the weekend, as news outlets around the world wrote about reports that the Southwest African nation had banned Islam and had begun to dismantle mosques. But an official at the Angolan Embassy in Washington, D.C., who...

  An online website is claiming Samsung has paid Apple the US$1 billion settlement fee from its recent patent trial ruling in five-cent pieces, sending a lorry of 30 trucks to deliver the coins, in a somewhat dubious report. PaperBlog alleges that Samsung’s fleet...

We are at a time when offensiveness, violence and hate have become ordinary in almost every corner of the world. There is news of more bloodshed from a different region almost every day, and the violence targets mostly innocent people. The terrorist attacks which have...

The Red Cross says that more than 1,200 people are confirmed dead as Haiyan, one of the most powerful-ever tropical typhoons, blows through the Philippines. Local authorities earlier put the death toll at nearer 100. The Philippines Red Cross has announced...