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AMERICAN authorities hope to blow al-Qaeda's terror network wide open after retrieving hard drives from Osama Bin Laden's compound in Sunday's deadly raid.
Along with Bin Laden's body, electronics and hard drives were seized by US forces following the fire-fight.

Analysts at the CIA's Virginia headquarters described the find as a "volume" of...

White House worried release of 'gruesome' Osama Bin Laden body photo could be 'inflammatory'

BY Lukas I. Alpert
Tuesday, May 3rd 2011


The White House said Tuesday that it was worried that the release of "gruesome" photos of a slain Osama Bin Laden could be seen as "inflammatory."

The images remain classified until the...

Discarded analog television sets in Florida. Analog was rendered obsolete in the switch to digital broadcasting in 2009.

For the first time in 20 years, the number of homes in the United States with television sets has dropped.


Analog...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sony Corp. said Monday that hackers may have taken personal information from an additional 24.6 million user accounts after a review of the recent PlayStation Network breach found an intrusion at a division that makes multiplayer online games.

The data breach comes on top of the 77 million PlayStation accounts it has already...

Targeting only mosquito larvae may work in the short run, but could result in higher resistance in the insects and less disease immunity among human.



DENGUE FEVER: Global incidence of the disease, which is rarely fatal but often debilitating, has risen dramatically in recent decades, linked to both rapid urbanization and the impact of...