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Swiss food group Nestle is to buy drugmaker Pfizer's baby food business for $11.85 billion, beating out French rival Danone in the battle for dominance of fast-growing emerging markets.

Robin Gibb' colorectal cancer, also known as bowel cancer, is caused by uncontrolled cell growth in the colon or rectum. Symptoms typically include rectal bleeding and anemia, which are sometimes associated with weight loss and changes in bowel habits, according to the American Cancer Society.

Samsung, the Korean electronics giant, is launching iCloud competitor, S-Cloud (or sCloud), at next month's Galaxy S3 announcement in London on May 3rd. S-Cloud would offer more than 5GB storage capacity like another cloud storage provider, Google Drive. Will it be better than Apple's iCloud service?

Boy band fever is definitely in the air, but did the genre ever really go away?

China produces 97 percent of the world's rare earths, minerals that are critical for the production of everything from cell phones to missiles -- and now it wants to keep more of them for itself. The world is worried, but there may be little it can do.

Australia, Singapore, South Korea and the UK have agreed to contribute a combined $41 billion to the International Monetary Fund reserve to boost a global firewall against Europe's debt crisis.

A texting pilot nearly brought down JetStar Flight JQ57.

Three unidentified Welsh men -- ages 18, 20 and 21 -- have been accused of breaking into Sea World on Queensland's Gold Coast, where they allegedly swam with the dolphins in their underwear and absconded away with a hapless little fairy penguin named Dirk.

As Afghanistan troop withdrawals are scheduled for 2014, Australia has renewed its pledge to adhere to NATO plans. But an abrupt U-turn this week indicates the political difficulties of adhering to an international commitment.

The European Union will formalize a suspension of sanctions against Myanmar next Monday, allowing for major easing on restrictions against the country over the next year.

A 31-year-old Indian boy who lost his mother in 1986, when he was just five, found his home back using Google Earths' satellite images, 25 years later.

Amid the Samsung and Apple flagship model's launch buzz drifting to new levels in the mobile space every single day, tech enthusiasts might not be able to ignore this combined piece of news about the three powerful launches which are heading for the US release very soon. Yes, the spill is about the latest announcement by two major smartphone manufacturers, including HTC and Huawei.

A Canadian man, Lee Moir, impersonated pop superstar Justin Bieber on Facebook to sexually abuse a 12-year-old girl from New Jersey according to authorities.

Although Google's latest mobile operating system Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich reached merely 1 percent of the total Android population at the beginning of this year, the update seems to get some momentum now with official ROMs arriving one after the other. Here is a step-by-step guide to install Ice Cream Sandwich on Samsung Galaxy S2 i9100.

In the UK, some Galaxy S2 owners are finally getting their hands on the new Ice Cream Sandwich update, according to CNET UK. SIM-free devices users are now able to download the Android 4.0 software as of April 17th.