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'Spider-Man' opened last night after a long awaited opening night; Bono has pushed back U2 album to 2012

Australia's two largest airlines continue to disagree with each other on how to deal with the safety risk posed by the cloud of ash from a Chilean volcano on Tuesday.

The ash clouds from Chile’s Puyehue volcano are causing travel chaos across the Southern Hemisphere from South America to Australia and New Zealand, stranding thousands of passengers.

From South America to Oceania to Africa, here's everything you need to know about the 2011 Ski Season in the Southern Hemisphere!

The volcanic ash cloud from Chile’s Puyehue volcano left thousands of travelers stranded and hundreds of flights backlogged over the past two days in Australia and New Zealand as strong winds carried the ash more than halfway across the world.

This coming Wednesday, most regions of the earth are expected to experience the longest total lunar eclipse since July 2000.

The first total lunar eclipse in 2011 will take place on Wednesday, June 15, which is one of the longest eclipses of the moon and will last just over 100 minutes.

As a cloud of ash from an erupting volcano in Chile prompted cancellation of some domestic and international flights from New Zealand and Australia on Monday, authorities said flights could remain affected all week.

Some of the flights cancelled on June 9, eight days after a Chilean volcano started erupting , have still been held in abeyance due to ash cloud created by a volcanic eruption.

Qantas Airways Ltd has cancelled all the flights in and out of Melbourne from Sunday evening due to a volcanic eruption in southern Chile.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Micromet, Verigy, Harbin Electric, Zipcar, Lululemon Athletica, and BioCryst Pharmaceuticals. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Diana Containerships, Life Partners Holdings, LM Ericsson Telephone, SIRIUS XM Radio, Research In Motion, and Vodafone Group.

Hewlett-Packard's iPad competitor is set to hit the market in the beginning of July.

Planking, the international phenomenon that started in England and spread to Asia and Australia, has come to Los Angeles.

Enoch Powell was one of the most fascinating, influential and controversial British politician of the 20th century. Largely unknown to Americans, Powell became a symbol of the anti-immigration movement that swelled during in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s.

The sun emitted an unusual solar flare, a small radiation storm and a spectacular coronal mass ejection (CME) from a sunspot complex on the solar surface, on Tuesday. The flare peaked at 1:41 a.m. ET, according to NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).

According to the Australian parenting website, 'Raising Children Network', health problems associated with childhood obesity are so severe, that there are concerns the current generation of parents in Australia will outlive their children!

Apple has updated its iBooks iOS app. The latest iBooks 1.3 has a few notable features such as read-aloud features.

Will this documentary be the next 'The Cove', or 'Food Inc.' ?

Microsoft launches new features for Xbox Live, including streaming live TV.

FBR Capital Markets initiated coverage of Capstone Turbine Corp. (NASDAQ: CPST) with an outperform rating and a price target of $2.75, or 68 percent potential upside.

The microwave radiations emitted through mobiles phones might cause cancer a warning issued for the first time by the World Health Organization (WHO). The UN health body has listed risks that were quite alarming since it affects the youngsters and children, the most.