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Sotheby's Hong Kong Important Watches Spring Sale 2011 held on April 7, 2011 achieved the highest total for the Various Owner sale of Important Watches category in Hong Kong.

As radiation levels in the power plant exceeded safety levels, workers struggling to control the overheated reactors faced threats to their health and life.

Boeing and Qatar Airways announced orders for three 777 Freighters and two 777-300ERs valued at $1.4 billion at list prices.

A gunman entered a shopping mall in the Netherlands and at least killed six people and wounded a dozen more before taking his own life.

The Estée Lauder brand announced a new collaboration with Aerin Lauder and Aerin LLC, her new luxury lifestyle brand.

Here is a list of top ten largest U.S. companies by market capitalization.

The 2011 award ceremony was a star-studded event, with some of the biggest names in the German film fraternity making exclusive fashion statements at the red carpet ceremony.

Almost a month after the massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit Japan, a second earthquake struck the north-eastern coast of the country on Thursday.

A giant island of earthquake-tsunami debris is floating in the sea and will hit the Hawaiian islands in the months to come, researchers have said, according to CNN.

Support pours in for anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare from across India, an online projection of which is seen on social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

Dead dolphins are washed up on the Gulf Coast in record numbers and the toll has breached 400 in just one year, even as Federal authorities are trying to put a lid on actual numbers and the reasons for unusual deaths.

Researchers at the NASA's Swift, Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to study one of the most puzzling cosmic blasts observed till date.

Although the social media has not yet exploded with the pictures and videos of the latest earthquake in Japan, a home footage of the April 7 quake has hit YouTube.

Radiation levels inside the Onagawa nuclear plant in the Miyagi prefecture, north-east of Japan, rose slightly as water spilled out of spent fuel pools after a strong 7.1-magnitude aftershock hit the region on Thursday night. But the company that runs the plant said there was no rise in radiation levels outside the plant.

Japan hasn't stopped with aftershocks since the 9.0 magnitude earthquake that occurred on March 11th, with today marking the largest aftershock to date.

A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit Japan at 11:32 p.m. local time on Thursday in the same area as the initial March 11 9.0-magnitude earthquake. It was the largest aftershock to date.

Theoretical astrophysicist Martin J Rees has received the 2011 Templeton Prize for inspiring questions that reshape crucial philosophical and theological considerations that strike at the core of life.

Over 20 million people affected, one-fifth of Pakistan's total land went underwater and a death rate close to 2,000 - This was the after-effect of the devastating flood that hit the country in the month of July, 2010.

A pair of white dwarf stars whirling around each other once every 39 minutes will merge and reignite as a helium-burning star in about 37 million years, astronomers said.

Robert Richard Titcomb, 49, a close friend of President Barack Obama has been arrested by the Honolulu Police Department on a prostitution charge.

The police commissioner for Suffolk County has said his team is ramping up the search of 7.5 km-stretch near the Oak Beach to find possible clues about the 'Craigslist serial killings' as well as to find more bodies.

Media Matters for America – a media watchdog group that received generous donations from left-leaning billionaire George Soros – applauded Glennn Beck’s departure from Fox network.

Donald Trump is the most sensational candidate to informally announce his candidacy for the 2012 presidential election.

NASA has awarded $16.5 million contract to Boeing, MIT and Northrop Grumman for additional research that would make airplanes greener and quieter for future generations.

The colour of the environment is changing – becoming bluer – apparently due to climate change, says a new study that finds that environment and animal populations are fluctuating more rapidly over time. The change that could have important implications for animals' risk of becoming extinct, ecologists have found.

Malcolm X, who ranted against the White men most of his life, had apparently had no qualms in sharing carnal pleasure with one of them, it has emerged. Malcolm was bisexual and had an affair with a white male, according to a biography of the legendary black radical activist of the 1960s.

Organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and sponsored by Google, Balenciaga and Spain is a focus on the influence of Spanish culture on the work of the famous 19th century designer, Cristóbal Balenciaga.

The career of Ted Southern, the designer of Victoria's Secret's famous angel wings, is in for a huge transition as he lands up with a NASA contract for fashioning gloves for astronauts.

The Arctic region has suffered an ozone column loss of about 40 percent from the beginning of the winter to late March this year, but the unprecedented ozone destruction was rather expected, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said.