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Red Hot Chili Peppers Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea has revealed that the band will be releasing 18 new songs over the next six mont...

  Pakistan blocks Twitter ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter for several hours because it refused...

Twitter-Occupy Wall Street Twitter is contesting a US court order ordering it to hand over the message history of one of its users. A ...

An Afghan man sits next to the dead bodies killed by US Army (Reuters) - U.S. officials warned on Monday of possible reprisal attacks a...

Two systems set for final tests and could be in place by 2014 Football's lawmakers have revealed they will go ahead with final tests ...

Whitney Houston Whitney Houston is dead at age 48. The singer's publicist Kristen Foster has confirmed today (Feb. 11) that Whitney h...

Barack Obama, US President WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama used Tuesday's State of the Union address to lay out a vision of Ame...

Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia (Reuters) - Wikipedia, the popular community-edited online encyclopedia, will black out its English-language site...

Chris Draft One month after getting married, former NFL linebacker Chris Draft lost his wife today after a long bout with lung cancer. Sh...

Joe Lieberman American congressmen are calling on Twitter to block Taliban propagandists from the micro-blogging site. Senators want to...

Singer Adele Google has failed to deliver on promises to tackle illegal file-sharing, according to an organisation which represents music...

LeAnn Rimes with her Husband Things got a lot hotter in Mexico yesterday as bikini-clad LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian put on a steamy di...

Vote in Russia (Reuters) - Russians voted on Sunday in a parliamentary election seen as a test of Vladimir Putin's personal authority...