WASHINGTON, AFP- The Conficker worm, believed to have burrowed into millions of computers around the world, has sent an encrypted data message to infected machines, according to a computer security...
WASHINGTON- Hot social networking website Facebook expects to welcome its 200 millionth user on Wednesday, co-founder Mark Zuckerberg said.
Zuckerberg, who created Facebook with two Harvard...
LONDON- A 19-year-old actor from the Harry Potter films has been arrested after police allegedly found cannabis in his car and his mother's home, reports and Scotland Yard said.
James Waylett, who...
PARIS - Life as we know it may owe its existence to fluctuating levels of a humble metal in the primordial sea, according to a study published Wednesday.
The massive influx of oxygen into Earth's...
WASHINGTON- The longstanding practice of prescribing heartburn medication to help asthma patients is "ineffective and unnecessarily expensive," according to a study released Wednesday.
For nearly...
PARIS, Dave Clark - US President Barack Obama's first European tour won little in practical terms, experts said Tuesday, but allowed him to deploy his charm in a bid to paper over real and ongoing...
LONDON, April 7, 2009 (AFP) - Prince Charles has triggered a new row over his architectural views by urging Qatar's leaders to rethink a modern design for a landmark London building, reports said...
OTTAWA- Canadian parents of a dying baby said Tuesday they would take their two-month-old Kaylee off life support at a Toronto hospital in hopes her heart could be transplanted into another child in...
BERLIN, April 6, 2009 (AFP) - A German DJ broke the world record for the longest continuous radio show Monday when he finished his "morning" programme over a week after beginning it, his station...
PARIS, Brigitte Castlenau- In a world first, French surgeons replaced in a single operation the face and both hands of a man horribly disfigured by an accident, the hospital where the surgery took...