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Facebook has introduced “smart lists” that automatically sort friends into categories and prioritise news from those dearest to members of the world’s largest online social network. The rollout of smart lists commences on Thursday and […] […]

ARMED men have killed a British man and kidnapped his wife from a beach resort in northern Kenya near the border with Somalia, a Nairobi-based diplomat says. Britain’s Foreign Office confirmed that two British citizens […] […]

CLIFF Robertson, the handsome movie actor who played John F. Kennedy in PT-109, won an Oscar for Charly and was famously victimised in a 1977 Hollywood forgery scandal, has died aged 88. His secretary of […] […]

A BOMB alert forced a Pakistan International airlines (PIA) plane to land at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport, state-run Anatolia news agency reported. Security officials with sniffer dogs searched the plane, Anatolia said. The bomb alert, which […] […]

Microsoft is in the crosshairs of a lawsuit charging that smartphones powered by Windows 7 software noted the whereabouts of users even if they didn’t want to be tracked. A suit filed a day earlier […] […]

IN years gone by the extramarital affair has been unrivaled in the UK as the prime reason for divorce. But in this postmodern age, it has been replaced by something more prosaic: falling out of […] […]

A 19-year-old New York man who created a program that allows iPhone users to “jailbreak” the device to run unauthorised applications claims to have landed an internship at Apple. Nicholas Allegra, creator of the site […] […]

Google chairman Eric Schmidt has attacked the British education system, saying a failure to appreciate the importance of computer science was holding the country back in the digital age. In a lecture at a broadcasting […] […]

HURRICANE Irene intensified to category three status tonight as it bore down on the Bahamas on a path that could see it slam into the US mainland, US forecasters said. At 10pm (AEST), Irene was […] […]

HURRICANE Irene has churned into a stronger Category 2 storm and has cut a destructive path through the Caribbean as it heads toward the US coast. Forecasters at the US National Hurricane Center in Miami […] […]