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A biggest solar flare in four years erupted from the Sun on early Tuesday, which is heading towards Earth and could disrupt power grids and satellites. The flare was a different kind as it started out slow, then the sun blasted it off like a volcanic eruption.

A Soyuz spacecraft blasted off for the International Space Station on Wednesday with a Russian, American and a Japanese astronaut on board.

Sarah Palin's American history was a bit off when she publicly spoke about Paul Revere. In 2008 Fey remarked that she didn't want to continue playing Palin after November 5th.

Low-flying NATO jets have reportedly conducted a rare daytime bombing campaign on Tripoli, Libya, setting off huge explosions and also striking the military barracks and compound of Moammar Gaddafi.

If crisis talks are any indication of an impending emergency, then the E.coli outbreak has just become one. With experts still in the dark about the origin of the outbreak, the agriculture ministers from European Union nations have decided to hold a crisis meeting.

Former South Korean Ban Ki-moon has asked for the support of UN Security Council for his candidacy for a second five-year term as U.N. secretary-general.

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.

French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde is most likely to head International Monetary Fund (IMF), with backing of the United States and Japan, the Nikkei financial daily reported on Sunday, citing unidentified global financial industry sources in Washington, reported Reuters.

The spot market price of Gold Bullion jumped $10 per ounce to $1539 Friday lunchtime in London - recovering the last of this week's 1.1% drop - before slipping back as the US Dollar fell on surprisingly weak US jobs data.

Do you know your world trivia well? Are you a huge donut fan? Each hour, Dunkin Donuts is tweeting out a new question in celebration of National Donut Day.

Yahoo has released a list of the top misspelled or misheard searches for the year 2011.

Russian spy Anna Chapman has taken over as editor–in–chief of a new business magazine, five months after launching a TV show, giving a new direction to her career that saw her deported from the United States last summer.

After alleged hackers in China compromised the personal e-mail accounts of top-notch American officials, military personnel and journalists, the world attention has shifted to cyber warfare and similar attacks that have happened in the past.

Experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) said that a highly infectious new strain of E.coli bacteria, which is causing a deadly outbreak of food poisoning in Germany and other countries, is a never-before-seen mutation.

A killer bacteria linked to Spanish cucumbers is claiming victims all around Europe, but the news couldn't come at a worse time for the struggling country.

Syria's military forces continued their crackdown against anti-government protests on Thursday, shelling southern and central towns as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned President Bashar al-Assad that his legitimacy had nearly run out.

The escherichia coli (E.coli) outbreak has infected more than 1,500 people and killed 17 others. Vegetable sellers are suffering due to E.coli outbreak.

The outbreak of E. coli in Western Europe has led Russia to impose a ban on fresh vegetable imports from the European Union (EU).

The owner of the New Jersey Nets, Mikhail Prokhorov, is seeking the leadership of the Right Cause party in Russia.

Chelsea managerial target Guus Hiddink has given the biggest hint yet that he is interested in occupying the vacant hot seat at Chelsea, after revealing his desire to return to club management.

Sarah Palin is not known to have been generous in her remarks about media; neither has the fourth estate been kind towards her. Quite often she has expressed her frustration, anger and extreme distrust over how media portrays her and the themes that she loves. There is quite something that turns Palin against the media and vice versa. Here is a quick look at some of Palin's attack and snubs on media, mainstream as well as blogging sites: