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Crime thriller Disturbia, about a suspected serial killer, is top of the US box office chart for a third week.

Letters written by Warwickshire-born author George Eliot are put on line to mark the anniversary of her first novel.

Noel Gallagher and James Blunt are among 30 musicians designing 10ft-high Gibson Les Paul guitars for charity.

Sugababes singer Amelle Berrabah is arrested over claims she assaulted a woman in a nightclub, police confirm.

Apple says that “some batteries” in its range of MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops have “performance issues”.

CHANDIGARH, India (Reuters) - Fed up with traffic snarls
and scarred roads, a software engineer in India’s flagship IT
hub of Bangalore took to the streets in protest last year —
doodling on his laptop while trotting along on a bullock-cart.

VIENNA (Reuters) - With the precision of a surgeon, Andreas
Rupp carefully wraps sensor strips around a 21-tonne bell in
Vienna’s famous St Stephen’s Cathedral.

The Arctic Monkeys’ new album Favourite Worst Nightmare debuts at number one in the UK chart.

The New Orleans Jazz festival secures corporate backing until 2010, shelving plans to scale it back.

LONDON (Reuters) - Home Secretary John Reid is to approach
Apple and Sony to join a summit to help fight crime in Britain.

PARIS (Reuters) - Internet-based phone calls represented a
quarter of total fixed-line calls in France by the end of last
year and volumes more than doubled in 2006, the country’s
telecoms regulator Arcep said on Monday.

Sony is hoping to out-do the entertainment value of the original EyeToy by announcing the PlayStation Eye for the PS3, which will arrive here this summer. Newer games [Eye Of Judgment] and some online services are coming to make …

Just what kind of chair do you need for comfortable computing becuse it seems sitting upright is just so yesterday’s news. We now have gaming chairs for social lepers and computer beds designed to …

The Royal Shakespeare Company holds an open day as part of the Bard’s birthday celebrations.

Scots actor Ewan McGregor is immortalised in his Star Wars role as the new face of the US Postal Service.

The full costs of the police investigations connected to the television show Big Brother are revealed.

A speech by the late writer Kurt Vonnegut is delivered by his son at a tribute event in Indianapolis.

The funeral of celebrated Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich is held in Moscow’s main cathedral.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The Chilean government wants Google to
fix its Earth geographical search program that places a village
named after Chilean independence hero Bernardo O’Higgins in
Argentina.

Doctor Who and its spin-off sci-fi show Torchwood pick up a total of 12 awards at the Welsh Baftas.