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The launch of the first satellites for Galileo - Europe's version of GPS - is delayed because of an anomaly detected during the fuelling of their Soyuz rocket.

The most severe flooding in half a century in Thailand continues, and Bangkok residents prepare for the worst as floods are predicted to enter the capital Friday.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez heads home Thursday after undergoing five days of medical tests in Cuba.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets the Afghan president and other government officials Thursday for talks aimed at boosting reconciliation efforts in the nation.

UK websites should have protection from defamation cases if they remove anonymous postings if there is a complaint, MPs and peers says.

The European Commission approved on Wednesday the acquisition by Seagate Technology of the hard disk drive (HDD) business of Samsung Electronics, after concluding that there will still be enough players in the market after the acquisition. After the acquisition, Samsung will have about 9.6 percent ownership of Seagate, the companies said in April.

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An Ohio sheriff believes no more exotic animals are on the loose after his deputies killed 49 lions, tigers and other wild animals freed from a local farm by its suicidal owner.

Indonesian security forces arrested about 300 protesters who gathered Wednesday in the eastern province of West Papua to declare independence, Human Rights Watch said.

Nearly 800 dogs were rescued by a Chinese animal protection group last Saturday night in the city of Zigong, in southwest Sichuan province.

ARM Holdings has introduced the Cortex-A7, a new microprocessor design that will be used in sub-US$100 smartphones, as well as in high-end smartphones alongside the more powerful Cortex-A15.

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Samsung, in collaboration with BIGFlix, will be launching, what it claims will be, India's first of it's kind Video on Demand application named 'My Movies', that offers consumers full length feature films.

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Amazon, IBM, Rackspace reps debate cloud security and availability, along with use of SQL and database connectivity in the cloud at ZendCon

The hackers determined to get control of their gadgets

Who is behind the V for Vendetta masks?

Fisker received its EPA certification for the Karma plug-in hybrid and commenced sales of the near $100K sport sedan.

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Sergey Brin initially considered the Circles content-sharing mechanism on Google+ to be too complicated, but after he started using the site he changed his mind and now thoroughly enjoys using the company's social networking site.

Carla Bruni, the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, has given birth to a girl, a very close family friend told CNN on Wednesday.

ARM Holdings has introduced the Cortex-A7, an upcoming microprocessor design that will be used in sub-US$100 smart phones, as well as in high-end smart phones as a companion chip to the more powerful Cortex-A15.

Startup Sakti3 expects to have prototypes of a solid-state lithium ion battery that it hopes will increase the range of electric cars and enable cheaper electronics.