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  • Ultra-Orthodox websites thrive after Mumbai tragedy

    Bloody images and screaming headlines of the tragedy at Chabad House in Mumbai have drawn an unprecedented number of visitors to usually low-key Jewish ultra-Orthodox websites.
  • Virgin taps Yahoo! for mobile Internet search

    British telecommunications titan Virgin Media announced that it will use Yahoo oneSearch to power Internet exploration for its mobile service customers. Virgin says that it plans to start using oneSearch at a new "enhanced mobile portal" beginning December 8.
  • Space shuttle Endeavour wraps-up mission

    Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts safely returned to Earth on Sunday, taking a detour to sunny California after storms hit the main landing strip in Florida.
  • Pakistani bloggers show solidarity with Mumbaikars

    As tensions mount between Pakistan and India, Pakistani bloggers are going the extra mile to show solidarity with Mumbaikars.
  • Scientists find meteor debris in Canada

    Scientists said on Friday that they had found remains of a meteor that illuminated the sky before falling to earth in western Canada earlier this month.
  • Astronauts await permission to land Endeavour

    Their work in orbit accomplished, space shuttle Endeavour's astronauts got the green light to return to Earth, but were warned that bad weather at the main landing site could send them across the country or keep them up an extra day.
  • NASA to send solar-powered mission to Jupiter

    US space agency NASA is to send a solar-powered mission to Jupiter to view the planet's unseen parts. The $1 million mission, Juno, will be launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida in August 2011.
  • Search on for meteorite that lit Canada

    Scientists and amateur astronomers have been combing the prairies in western Canada for a 10-ton meteorite that lit the sky and exploded with the force of 300 tons of dynamite, according to experts from the Canadian Space Agency.
  • Indian, Pak hackers deface govt websites

    Indian and Pakistani hackers are engaged in a round of tit-for-tat defacing of government-run websites of the two countries, targeting such major organisations as India's oil and gas major ONGC and its Pakistani counterpart OGRA.
  • Ants offer clues to improve traffic flow: Experts

    The Dresden Institute of Technology collective intelligence expert Dirk Helbing and his team set up an ant highway with two routes of different widths from the nest to some sugar syrup, according to their findings, published in New Scientist.
  • Random House to digitilize books

    With e-book sales exploding in an otherwise sleepy market, Random House Inc. announced Monday that it was making thousands of additional books available in digital form, including novels by John Updike and Harlan Coben, as well as several volumes of the "Magic Treehouse" children's series.
  • Coal-addicted Poles mull turning green

    Standing in the shadow of a massive windmill, Mayor Tomasz Koprowiak thinks part of the answer to Poland kicking its coal habit is blowing in the wind and growing in farmers' fields.
  • Facebook welcomes court ruling against Canadian spammer

    Facebook began legal action against Guerbuez in August, claiming that he had managed to obtain the passwords of Facebook users and was bombarding them with millions of messages about sexual products and drugs.
  • After India's Chandrayaan-1 its Britain's MoonLITE

    Britain is set to launch its maiden moon mission to study the phenomenon of mysterious moonquakes, weeks after India's spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 successfully entered the lunar orbit.
  • Japan scientists eye made-to-order bones

    Japanese hospitals are running a clinical trial on the world's first custom-made bones which would fit neatly into patients' skulls and eventually give way to real bones.
  • YouTube goes live!

    YouTube has broadcast its first live event, an extravaganza which was part concert and part variety show and which drew comments from viewers ranging from "AWESOME!" to "train wreck."
  • India fifth in A-Pac on average online spending: Survey

    As per a new survey, purchasing digital downloads has emerged as the most popular form of consumer e-commerce in India, and the country is in the fifth spot as far as average online spending in the past 12-months is concerned.
  • Endeavour mission's longest spacewalk ends

    Astronauts have finished the third of four spacewalks planned during space shuttle Endeavour's visit to the International Space Station.
  • Large meteor streaks across Canada

    A leading researcher says one of the largest meteors to streak over Canada in the last decade broke up into pieces that may have landed in central Saskatchewan.
  • Rare surgery performed at Kochi hospital

    Doctors of the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences in Kochi claimed to have set right a problem in a sexagenarian's main blood vessel without an open chest surgery.