Italy's Berlusconi dismisses calls to resign
2011-10-09 23:17:40
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi dismissed calls to resign on Friday as pressure on his struggling centre-right government mounted.
Jackson children dance to his music at tribute gig
2011-10-09 21:10:20
Tens of thousands of fans rocked to the hits of Michael Jackson on Saturday at a tribute concert.
Ridiculed work wins Nobel for Israeli
2011-10-09 08:56:16
An Israeli scientist who suffered years of ridicule and even lost a research post for claiming to have found an entirely new class of solid material was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry last week for his discovery of quasicrystals.
Briton's eye keeps his design on track
2011-10-09 08:29:54
Not many outside the design and transport industries know that Paul Priestman's firm is responsible for the look of what currently is one of China's fastest trains. And the Englishman prefers it stays that way.
Steve Jobs 'may never be equaled'
2011-10-07 09:00:05
Passionate, prickly and deemed irreplaceable by many Apple fans and investors, Steve Jobs made a life of defying conventions and expectations. And despite years of poor health, his death on Wednesday at the age of 56 prompted a global gasp.
Palin not to run in 2012
2011-10-06 22:57:17
Sarah Palin said on Wednesday that she will not seek the Republican US presidential nomination in 2012, ending months of speculation and leaving the Republican field largely settled.
Spain enthralled by wedding of 85-year-old duchess
2011-10-06 17:58:58
One of Europe's wealthiest aristocrats, the 85-year-old Duchess of Alba, wedded a civil servant 24 years her junior in a Seville palace on Wednesday.
Apple's Jobs dead at 56
2011-10-06 08:18:09
Apple Inc co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, counted among the greatest American CEOs of his generation, died on Wednesday at the age of 56.
Amanda Knox returns home to Seattle
2011-10-05 11:10:10
Amanda Knox returned home to Seattle on Tuesday, one day after an Italian court cleared the 24-year-old college student of murder and freed her from prison.
Italian appeal court clears Amanda Knox of murder
2011-10-04 10:54:59
Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend left prison after four years on Monday when an Italian appeals court cleared them of the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher.
Immune system discoveries win 2011 medicine Nobel
2011-10-04 07:52:52
Three scientists who unlocked key elements of how the body's immune system works won the 2011 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday.
Immune system discoveries win 2011 medicine Nobel
2011-10-03 20:04:56
Three scientists who uncovered key secrets of how the body's immune system works have won the 2011 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology, the prize-awarding institute said on Monday.