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The World Wide Web is still only in its infancy, its British inventor said Wednesday, on the 15th anniversary of the web’s effective launch.
Tim Berners-Lee told the BBC that the web, which started life in the CERN physics laboratory on the...
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Magician David Blaine set a world record for underwater breath holding on Wednesday when he stopped breathing for more than 17 minutes suspended in a water-filled sphere on the stage of Oprah Winfrey’s talk show.
“I feel great,” the...
Actress Kate Hudson has been named top of People magazine’s annual “100 Most Beautiful People list,” the celebrity magazine announced on its website Wednesday.
The 29-year-old single mother and Oscar-nominated star of “Almost...
Belarus on Wednesday expelled 10 US diplomats amid an escalating diplomatic row over alleged human rights abuses, the head of the US mission in Minsk said.
“The foreign ministry gave us a list of 10 diplomats who are considered persona non grata...
CIA chief Michael Hayden charged Wednesday that China was beefing up its military with “remarkable speed and scope,” calling the buildup “troubling.”
The Chinese, he said, had fully absorbed the lessons of both Gulf wars,...
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai beat Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe’s presidential election, winning 47 percent of the vote against the president’s 43 percent, senior government sources said on Wednesday.
One source, declining to be named...
Austrian police said Wednesday the man who held his daughter prisoner for 24 years and repeatedly raped her had no accomplices and planned his crime too meticulously to have been detected any earlier.
Faced with tough questions about how the shocking...
Iran remained the world’s “most active” state sponsor of terrorism as it tries to build regional influence and drive the United States from the Middle East, a US government report said Wednesday.
The State Department report added...
The commander of Israeli military intelligence warned Tuesday that Palestinian militants would try to launch a large-scale attack on Israel’s 60th anniversary celebrations next month. He was speaking as the two sides traded charges after a Gaza...
Shimmering stadiums and billions of dollars spent to remake Beijing into a modern city have been overshadowed by pro-Tibet protests, chaos on the Olympic torch relay, and an anti-Western backlash by angry Chinese who sense their coming-out party is...
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