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Australian scientists say they have bred a pineapple with double the Vitamin C of other varieties. A 15-year joint government and industry breeding programme has produced the Aus-Jubilee pineappl...

Two popular supplements taken to combat joint pain do not work, a study says. The review of 10 previous trials by Bern University in Switzerland found glucosamine and chondroitin did not have any ...

The combination of depression and coronary heart disease in a patient could be much more deadly than either condition alone, researchers say. French and British experts say people with both condit...

The inventor of the Web has called for everyone to have access to his creation for free. Tim Berners-Lee said that he would like to see everybody given a low-bandwidth connection "by default". H...

Microsoft has launched its latest bid to be computer users' default window on to the web. The software giant has released the latest version of its popular web browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), ...

Microblogging sensation Twitter, which is now signing up 370,000 new users daily on average, is redesigning its website to make it easier for its millions of users to navigate the service and discov...

Scientists in the UK say they have devised a new ultra-sensitive test which can diagnose the presence of the tuberculosis bacterium in one hour. The test has been developed by the Health Protectio...

Global hunger has fallen this year but remains "unacceptably high", a report from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has said. The FAO estimates there are 925 million undernourished ...

  Cellphone maker Nokia unveiled the smartphones its new management team will be fighting with on Tuesday, as it tries to win back market share from Apple and Blackberry. The world's biggest ce...

The world's biggest chip maker, Intel, has unveiled the chipset it is banking its immediate future on and one it hopes will shake up the market. The product, code-named Sandy Bridge, is Intel's fi...

YouTube has started to experiment with its own-brand live video-streaming technology. Over two days the site is planning a trial in which four partners will get the chance to air live programmes. ...

Australia has outlawed a television advertisement in favour of euthanasia - the first in many years to challenge a legal ban on the practice. In the advert, a gaunt-looking actor speaks of intole...

A booby-trapped e-mail that promises free sex movies is racking up victims around the world, warn security firms. Some variants of the Windows worm contain a link to PDF that a recipient has been ...

The cost of old age on health services in industrialised nations may need to be re-measured, a study suggests. Rising life expectancies and improved health means the population is ageing more slo...

China will launch its second lunar exploration probe by the end of 2010, boosting the country's effort to rise as a space power eventually capable of landing on the moon, official media said. A se...

EBay Inc., the owner of e-commerce sites and the PayPal payment service, plans to focus on exports and cross-border trades involving China instead of competing in the domestic market, Chief Executiv...

Freshwater turtles are in catastrophic decline, according to a new analysis by Conservation International (CI). The group says more than a third of the estimated 280 species around the world are n...

U.S. Web surfers are spending more time socializing on Facebook than searching with Google, according to new data from researchers at comScore Inc. In August, people spent a total of 41.1 million ...

The strength of your handshake could be a clue to how long you'll live, say scientists from University College London. They matched older people's balance, grip strength and ability to get up from...

Scientists have begun a study to determine if an everyday vitamin supplement could help prevent one of Britain's most common birth defects. Every year about 100 children in the UK are born with s...

Google has sped up its internet search engine by launching a new product, Google Instant, that displays results as soon as users type in queries. "This is search at the speed of thought. It repres...

More needs to be done to establish which are safe and effective ways to relieve morning sickness, experts say. There is reluctance to use pharmaceutical products in pregnancy due to Thalidomide, t...

Google has proposed paying $8.5m (£5.5m) to settle a lawsuit brought over its Buzz social network. Launched in February, Buzz enrolled all Gmail users into a social network based around their con...

Mental illnesses like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder alone do not make people more violent, but the tendency of people with psychiatric problems to abuse drugs or alcohol does, scientists said. ...

Nokia, the world's biggest cellphone maker by volume, will introduce new smartphone models next week at its annual media and industry event, aiming to assure investors the company is on track to rec...

Scientists are concerned that exposure to chemicals used in non-stick frying pans could raise cholesterol levels in children after finding a link. They have no proof, but the West Virginia team sa...

Russian police trying to make motorists respect pedestrians on zebra crossings thought of drafting in exotic zebras to halt Moscow traffic. Only, police in the Russian capital could not get any ze...

Tests on a type of breast implant filled with an unapproved gel have shown no evidence they unsafe, UK experts say. Concerns had been raised about Poly Implant Prostheses - or PIPs - after a Frenc...

Samsung Electronics Co. unveiled a new tablet PC named Galaxy Tab as the latest device meant to rival Apple Inc.'s popular iPad. The device offers users "a new galaxy of possibilities" with featur...

NASA is working on a plan to launch a mission to visit and study the sun closer than ever before, China's Xinhua news agency quoted the Jet Propulstion Laboratory (JPL) as saying. The unprecedent...