English author and bookmakers' favorite Julian Barnes finally won the Man Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday, despite once dismissing the coveted award as posh bingo.
Apple Inc.'s projection of selling 25 million iPhones by the end of 2011 lends credence from the registered sales of 4 million units of iPhone 4S during the opening weekend.
British youngster Tom Lewis won the Portugal Masters Sunday to earn a European Tour exemption in only his third event as a professional.
Fast Retailing Co Ltd's <9983.T> Uniqlo is launching its U.S. expansion this week with the opening of a flagship store in Manhattan that will anchor a global push to rely less on its home market of Japan.
Investors will look to handset vendors' quarterly reports in coming days for signs of how much the global economic slowdown will hit cellphone sales in the crucial year-end shopping season.
The final qualifiers of the Euro 2012 Group games were played out on Tuesday. Here's a round-up of who has qualified, who hasn't and what they have to do to qualify.
Study suggests that chocolate consumption may lower a woman’s stroke risk.
The administrator in charge of Saab's restructuring under court protection could pull the plug on the process as early as Tuesday, paving the way for declaring the auto maker bankrupt, daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reported.
The day after he tied the knot with American heiress Nancy Shevell, ex-Beatle Paul McCartney announced 11 extra dates for his On the Run tour ending in his native town of Liverpool, England, on December 20.
The iPhone 4S preorders topped one million in a single day, breaking the company's single-day sales record held by the iPhone 4. The surging demand for the 4S is seen as a tribute to Steve Jobs, whose death immediately followed the device's release.
Chalk it up to science by press conference, but an international team announced Monday they are convinced of finding Bigfoot, the mythical creature that has eluded capture by adventurers for generations.
Despite doleful predictions of an epic fail, Apple Inc. has hit yet another out-of-the-park home run with its new iPhone 4S. By all accounts, the new smartphone has had a tremendous response from consumers.
The Draconid meteor shower, last seen in 2005, emerged Saturday with shooting stars seen dazzling in the night sky.
Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer has been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Sweden's greatest living poet, Tomas Transtromer, won the Nobel prize for literature on Thursday, more than 20 years after a stroke severely limited his speech and movement, but not the power of his writing.
OCT 6 - Sony Corp is nearing a deal to buy out Telefon AB LM Ericsson's stake in their 50:50 smartphone joint venture, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday citing people familiar with the matter.
In Italy, the murder rate amounted to 1.0 homicide per 100,000 inhabitants, the second-lowest figure in Europ
A Russian conference is setting out to do what no man has done before: Find Yeti. Yeti, otherwise known as Bigfoot, the Abominable Snowman or Sasquatch, has titillated explorers for over a century, with sightings of large footprints in mud or snow.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has proposed forming a Eurasian Union out of the former Soviet nations, saying it could become a global economic power to rival Asia, America, and Western Europe.
A scientist who won the Nobel prize for medicine on Monday used his own discoveries to treat himself for cancer, but died of the disease just days before he could be told of the award.
One of the three scientists awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine Monday used his insights into the immune system in treatments against the pancreatic cancer he suffered for four years.
Three scientists shared the Nobel Prize for medicine Monday for their discoveries about the human immune system that forged the development of new treatments against infectious diseases and cancer.
