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Indian cricket officials demand suspended IPL chairman Lalit Modi answer corruption accusations, as an interim head is appointed.

A homeless man in the US who was stabbed after coming to a woman's aid is left to die by passers-by, CCTV footage shows.

I fixed a problem in the Trader Desktop Performance console I posted last week: Using the AIR client and the RTMP channel, the message latency started to increase when the application was deactivated (lost focus)… Background: When an AIR application loses focus, the AIR 2 runtime lowers the frame rate of the application to a [...]

L'Olympique lyonnais accueille le Bayern Munich en demi-finale retour de la Ligue des champions, mardi à Gerland.

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir is declared the winner of this month's landmark polls, despite facing war crimes charges.

Al-Qaeda is behind a suspected suicide attack on the convoy of the UK ambassador to Yemen, reports say.

C'est le coût total pour les compagnies aériennes et les voyagistes français, selon un nouveau calcul du secrétaire d'Etat français au tourisme, Hervé Novelli.

Mardi dernier, M. Novelli avait chiffré à 200 millions d'euros l'impact de l'éruption du volcan islandais.

L'excès de sodas et de jus de fruit, dont les jeunes sont de gros consommateurs, présente des risques pour la santé.

Serbian schoolboy faces death threats for pro-Nato views

Thailand's pro-government yellow-shirts call for the government to act, as red-shirt protests spread to provinces.

Jack Tweed, the widower of reality TV star Jade Goody, and his friend are found not guilty of raping a teenager in Essex.

The trial of three ex-British Airways executives and one current employee on price-fixing charges begins.

The Tories say the Lib Dem poll surge means Labour seats are "up for grabs" - something Labour dismisses as "spin".

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the twin brother of the Polish president killed in a plane crash, is to run for office to replace him.

Late last year, I took it upon myself to learn Silverlight. You see, I’m both a Flex and a .NET developer, so it makes a certain sense. I’ve also spent plenty of time criticising fanboys of both genres, so here I am putting my money where my mouth is. This is the final in a four part series. We cover databinding, dependency properties, attached properties and a few of Silverlight's standout features.

Research predicts that the UK will spend more than £1bn on cloud computing by 2012 - twice as much as now.

The anti-war Respect Party set out the terms on which it would support Labour in a hung Parliament at its manifesto launch.

Sony says it will stop selling floppy disks in 2011, signalling what could be the end of the venerable computer format.

The ICRC warns that Colombians caught up in the decades-long civil conflict are in danger of being forgotten.