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  • Apple co-founder, ex-CEO Steve Jobs has died

    Suddenly, the next version of the iPhone doesn't seem so important. It's time to mourn Steve Jobs, the Silicon Valley maestro who always seemed to hit the right note as he transformed Apple Inc. into technology's greatest hits factory.


  • Apple's Steve Jobs, father of Mac, iPhone, dies

    Suddenly, the next version of the iPhone doesn't seem so important. It's time to mourn Steve Jobs, the Silicon Valley maestro who always seemed to hit the right note as he transformed Apple Inc. into technology's greatest hits factory.


  • Apple CEO Steve Jobs gestures to his audience during a keynote address to the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on June 6, 2011. (Associated Press)

    Apple says company co-founder Steve Jobs has died

    In a brief statement, the company said Jobs died Wednesday. He had been battling pancreatic cancer.


  • In this video grab photo released Oct. 4, 2011, by the Syrian official news agency SANA, A woman claiming that she is Zainab al-Hosni who the Human rights groups, including Amnesty International, and Syrian activists reported last month that was found dead and mutilated after she was detained in her hometown of Homs, shows her ID card during an interview with the Syrian state television, in Damascus, Syria. (Associated Press/SANA)

    Syrian TV interviews woman reported killed

    A woman appeared on Syrian state television Wednesday claiming that she is the young Syrian who was widely reported to have been beheaded and mutilated by security agents while in custody last month. The station said the interview was intended to discredit foreign "media fabrications."


  • Eastern writers in buzz for Nobel literature prize

    Is it time for the Nobel Prize in literature to come from the east?


  • **FILE** Syrian President Bashar Assad (Associated Press)

    Western effort to end Assad's crackdown fails

    Syria's president threatened a regional war if the West intervenes in his country's uprising.


  • Syrians and Jordanians carry candles and posters depicting 18-year-old Zainab al-Hosni, believed to be the first woman to die in Syrian custody since the uprising began in mid-March, during a candlelight vigil in front the Syrian embassy in Amman, Jordan, on Oct. 3, 2011. (Associated Press)

    Syrian troops, army defectors clash; 4 killed

    Clashes between Syrian troops and army defectors in the country's northwest killed four people Tuesday, while gunmen shot dead a political activist in the latest in a wave of targeted killings in a rebellious central city, activists said.


  • Inside Politics

    Herman Cain is surging in the polls and on the best-seller charts.


  • Syrian army soldiers carry the coffins of comrades killed in recent violence in the country during a funeral procession on Oct. 1, 2011, at the military hospital in Homs, Syria. (Associated Press/SANA)

    Activists: Syrians detain 3,000 in town in 3 days

    Syrian troops going house to house have detained more than 3,000 people in the past three days in a rebellious town that government forces recently retook in some of the worst fighting of the 6-month-old uprising, activists said Monday.


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