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Tech titans pledge $1 bn for artificial intelligence research 12 Dec 2015 - 11:57 am

Elon Musk, CEO of US automotive and energy storage company Tesla, presents his outlook on climate change at the Paris-Sorbonne University in Paris...

Maldives: To 'sunny side of life' with sea, beaches, palms 10 Dec 2015 - 02:19 pm

With abundant sea life, pleasant temperatures and sandy beaches, Maldives is renowned as a tropical paradise By Rahul Dass Kani (Maldives): The Maldives...

Toyota starts sales of 4th generation Prius hybrid 10 Dec 2015 - 01:45 pm

Toyota Motor Corp Executive Vice President Mitsuhisa Kato with a Toyota new Prius at the automaker's showroom in Tokyo. By Yuri Kageyama TOKYO:...

Fashion mogul Berge sells off library in sequel to art 'sale of the century' 10 Dec 2015 - 01:21 pm

French businessman Pierre Berge poses in this undated photo. AFP Paris: Six years after selling off his art collection in a record-breaking "sale...

Smartphones would be outdated in five years 10 Dec 2015 - 11:58 am

Melbourne: Smartphones will become obsolete within five years and would be replaced with artificial intelligence, according to a consumer survey by the Ericsson...

Programmers create unlikely IT boom in Belarus 09 Dec 2015 - 09:16 am

Minsk: Despite its state-controlled economy, Belarus has become an unexpected top performer in information technology, with its programmers developing such worldwide hits as...

E-cigarettes contain dangerous 'popcorn lung' chemicals 09 Dec 2015 - 09:04 am

Washington: Three in four e-cigarettes were found to use a flavored liquid that has been linked to severe respiratory disease, US researchers said...

South Korea unveils ambitious green car push 08 Dec 2015 - 11:12 am

File photo of Hyundai cars in a shipping yard. Seoul plans to increase the production of green vehicles in the domestic market. Reuters ...

Audi showcases RS 7 piloted driving concept on a racetrack 07 Dec 2015 - 03:37 pm

Mohammed Saadon Al-Kuwari with the Audi RS 7 Piloted driving concept. Castellolí/Ingolstadt: The Audi RS 7 piloted driving concept has once again driven...

NASA releases 'best close-ups' of Pluto 05 Dec 2015 - 03:35 pm

A undated handout image made available 04 December 2015 by NASA, a highest-resolution image from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, showing great blocks of...

UK wartime leader Winston Churchill refused to pay his tailor's bills 05 Dec 2015 - 01:03 pm

Henry Poole's ledger account of Winston Churchill LONDON: Refusal to pay the bills of one's tailor was famously almost a point of honour...

Charles Dickens Museum opens exhibition 05 Dec 2015 - 09:23 am

The Charles Dickens Museum London, Dec 5: The Charles Dickens Museum, the famous English author’s former Bloomsbury home, this December opened a new...

Samsung to finally pay Apple $548 million in patent dispute 05 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

By Andrew Chung NEW YORK: Samsung fought until the bitter end to avoid paying Apple, but the company now says it will finally...

Swiss Alps add hallal BBQ, Chinese pop, as high franc drives quest for new tourists 03 Dec 2015 - 12:42 pm

Asian tourists take pictures in front of the Jungfrau mountain in the Swiss alpine resort Interlaken, Switzerland. By Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi ZURICH: Switzerland's...

Japan shows off disaster-response robots at android fair 02 Dec 2015 - 12:54 pm

A humanoid robot HRP-2 (L), produced by Kawada, at the annual International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo on December 2, 2015. AFP Tokyo: Japan...

The most exciting cars of the 2015 Los Angeles Auto Show 02 Dec 2015 - 10:53 am

By Hannah Elliott Some of the most exciting cars at the Los Angeles Auto Show: Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio:...

New dad Zuckerberg vows to give away Facebook fortune 02 Dec 2015 - 08:42 am

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla hold their baby daughter Maxima AFP San Francisco: Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday he...