Peruvian-born writer and one-time presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa, who has chronicled struggles for power, won the 2010 Nobel prize for literature, the awarding committee said on Thursday. The committee said in a statement Vargas Llosa received the award “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt and defeat”.

One of the favourites to win the popular X Factor singing competition faces deportation from Britain, the home office said on Wednesday.

Oct. 6: Social networking sites Facebook and Twitter were used to tout stocks in a classic “pump and dump” fraud of about $7 million that was uncovered during a cocaine-trafficking probe, US prosecuto

Washington, Oct. 1: The United States apologised on Friday for an experiment conducted in the 1940s in which US government researchers deliberately infected Guatemalan prison inmates, women and mental

AUTHOR J.K. Rowling told US television talk show host Oprah Winfrey she cried uncontrollably when she finished the last of her bestselling Harry Potter books, but did not rule out writing another one.

London/Beijing, Oct.1: Chinese manufacturing picked up steam in September after a mid-year lull, easing worries of a marked downturn in global growth, although business surveys again showed a cooling

New Delhi, Oct.1: The Indian government has manual access to Canadian Research in Motion’s BlackBerry messenger services and is hopeful of getting automated access from January 1, a top official said

PepsiCo Inc chief Indra Nooyi is the most powerful woman in U.S. business for the fifth year in a row, but Yahoo Inc boss Carol Bartz is the highest paid, Fortune magazine said on Wednesday.

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Car sales in the United States, Europe and Japan stayed stuck in low gear in September, while emerging markets like India raced ahead.

The loss of government incentives to buy new cars in Europe and

Tony Curtis, whose good looks made him a Hollywood star well before he became an accomplished actor in movies such as The Sweet Smell of Success and Some Like It Hot, died at his home in Nevada, ABC N