Poor health took the better of Steve Jobs as he resigned on Wednesday, sending shockwaves through technology and media circles.
Phillip Seaton and wife Deborah have sued a surgeon for "loss of service, love and affection", after Mr Seaton's penis was amputated during an operation which he said was done without his consent.
Medical tests on children living in three towns near the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant revealed a shocking 45 per cent of those surveyed suffered low-level thyroid radiation exposure, Japan's government said in a statement.
The Indian police have arrested anti-corruption campaigner and Mahatma Gandhi disciple Anna Hazare for pledging to go ahead with a hunger strike against a proposed new anti-corruption law.
After more than two hundred years of British rule, India regained its independence on Aug. 15, 1947.
The father of a Scottish victims wants Megrahi alive but back in prison.
The United States sent a representative for the first time to the annual memorial service for victims of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, one of two nuclear attacks that led Japan to surrender in World War II.
A new hormone test may be able to predict female fertility, allowing women to chart what age they can have children until, according to research.
Cancer patients could significantly increase their chance of survival by taking part in regular exercise during and after their treatment, according to a report from Macmillan Cancer Support.
Mouse sperm made from stem cells and used to treat infertile mice marks a step forward for regenerative medicine, according to researchers in Japan.
A charity set up a hoax website telling people they could get a sun tan from their computer screens in order to raise awareness of skin cancer.
Crimestoppers have compiled a list of the top ten most wanted fraudsters, who are believed to be responsible for at least £200 million worth of fraud between them.
Al-Megrahi, the man convicted of killing 270 people by bombing a Pan Am jet in 1988 was11 years later released from Greenock Prison by the Scottish government on compassionate grounds.
The private funeral ceremony for Amy Winehouse took place on Tuesday, where friends and family all gathered to say one last goodbye.
Samsung has denied allegations that unsafe working conditions in its chip production factories directly led to two employees dying of leukaemia.
Hoping to make it third time lucky, Sir Paul McCartney, 69, is set to marry Nancy Shevell, 51 in a quite ceremony in London.
The Bond girl who starred in On Her Majesty's Secret died in April after drinking a corrosive cleaning liquid, a court heard.
Former Conservative Chancelleor Nigel Lawson is said to have declared that the National Health Service is the closest thing the British have to a religion, a statement which seems to be proved truer by the day by the Trades Union Congress.
Mounting scientific evidence is increasingly against the theory that mobile phone use causes brain tumours, according to a comprehensive analysis from an independent international expert panel.
With no heir apparent to Venezuela's presidency, politicians are jockeying for power as President Hugo Chavez undergoes medical treatment in Cuba, analysts said.
Japan's Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters finally admitted earlier this month that reactors 1, 2, and 3 at the Fukushima plant experienced full meltdowns.
Cameron and Miliband clash over Welfare reform
