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Samsung shipped more smartphones than Apple did in the third quarter of 2011, but Samsung may not have sold them all yet.

British singer-songwriter Adele has been forced by impending surgery to cancel all her remaining tour dates and promotional appearances through the end of the year, her record label said on Friday.

The first child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, boy or girl, will be able to inherit the throne; according to historic changes introduced in the Royal succession rule.

A three-hour walking tour through the Making of Harry Potter installation at the Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden outside Watford, England, is set to take visitors behind the scenes of the most popular wizard film series of all time.

Twilight series star Kristen Stewart said in an interview recently that the scenes in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn-Part I where she and her co-star Robert Pattinson had to get intimate was so weird.

Apple Inc. is in discussion with some iPhone 4S owners to try and solve problems with battery life on the new device, after some people saw dramatic drops in longevity compared to previous models.

Britain change rules of royal succession.

The most important thing to know about the highly anticipated 4S/iOS jailbreak is that it is not quite ready yet.

The British singer is to have surgery for her recent throat problems.

The leader of the Islamist party which won Tunisia's first free election appealed for calm in the town where the Arab Spring began, accusing forces linked to the ousted president of fanning violence there.

Metro AG could become the latest European retailer to warn on profits next week, piling pressure on the German group to sort out a successor to Chief Executive Eckhard Cordes.

Euro zone interest rates will very likely remain on hold next week as the European Central Bank navigates the transition to new leadership, with an anti-crisis plan forged by EU leaders taking some heat off monetary policymakers.

A recent poll seeking to gauge public understanding of climate engineering across the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom has made a surprising discovery: 72 percent of respondents were favorably inclined toward exploring climate engineering and solar radiation management (SRM) options.

In October, three musketeers in the smartphone market rushed before the eyes of smartphone watchers - Motorola Droid Razr, Samsung Galaxy Nexus and iPhone 4S. Apple's iPhone 4S, unveiled on Oct. 4, just a day before the company's co-founder Steve Jobs died, smashed its previous sales records by selling 400 million devices over the launch weekend. Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the latest Samsung and Google flagship smartphone, which was unveiled in Hong Kong on Oct. 19, is likely to be launched in...

Resplendent in a turquoise empire-line dress, Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, conducted her first solo engagement as a royal Wednesday, but also on display was a childhood secret: a three-inch scar on the left side of her temple.

WPP Plc , the world's largest advertising company, sought to reassure the market with a pledge of improving margins on Friday, after it cut as expected its 2011 outlook due to slowing growth in the U.S. and the euro zone debt crisis.

Asian stocks headed for their best week in nearly three years after a long-awaited plan to resolve the European debt crisis sparked a huge relief rally in riskier assets, while the euro took a breather after jumping to a seven-week high.

The Islamist Ennahda party was officially declared the winner of Tunisia's election Thursday, setting it up to form the first Islamist-led government in the wake of the Arab Spring uprisings.

Anonymous, which opens tomorrow, wants to convince movie-goers that Shakespeare was a fraud. The movie's main success, however, is to illuminate how class-oriented and false the anti-Stratford argument- that Shakespeare's plays were written by somebody else- truly is, asserting as it does that a commoner could never be a genius.

The craze for McDonald's limited time offer of the McRib has begun again, but consumers might want to take a look at some of the item's ingredients before running out to order one.

Prince Charles, claiming he is related to Vlad the Impaler of Dracula fame, is using the connection to his Transylvanian ancestor to help promote his interest in preserving Romania's forests. In an interview on upcoming TV show Wild Carpathia, the heir to the British throne praised the country for its timelessness, and said the link to his vampire kin gives him a stake in Transylvania's ecosystem.