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Samsung Electronics posted a near 40 percent fall in first quarter net profit April 29, missing analyst estimates despite a surge in memory chip demand that cushioned a slump in smartphone sales.

A Turkish singer, known for her animal rights activism, has raised some eyebrows by suggesting the devastating April 25 earthquake in Nepal was punishment for Hindu animal sacrifices.

The New York Times report that Russian hackers managed to break into the White House computers in 2014 and were able to read US president Barack Obama’s emails.

The White House admitted the Russian hacker invasion last April but underlined that they were unable to procure any classified information.

A fraudster has been asking for photos of women?s breasts online posing as a representative of the Health Ministry, prompting a warning from the ministry to only trust its official social media accounts.

Asking for ?a few shots? of their breasts from young women, the fraudster claimed to be a representative of the ministry working for public health. 

Bulgaria has overtaken South Korea as "the country with the highest broadband adoption rate at 96%," a report by world-leading cloud services provider Akamai shows.

The Apple Watch goes on sale around the world on April 24, the final stage of a protracted launch of Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook's first new product, capping months of publicity and a frenetic two weeks of pre-orders.

Facebook said April 22 that profit in the first quarter plunged 20 percent from a year ago but revenues got a lift from robust growth in mobile advertising.

Oliver Antic, the advisor to Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic, has rejected claims made in an official report that the plane due to take Nikolic to Rome on April 17 had to return to Belgrade because "coffee was spilled in the cockpit".

Antic on Wednesday instead laid the blame for the incident on Zorana Mihajlovic, the Serbian Transport Minister.

Turkish authorities have told daily Hürriyet that they blocked access to a popular link shortening service due to a "technical error," causing a brief outage that triggered a nationwide outcry.

It was a sight that you don’t usually see on a news beat, yet here was the television reporter, microphone in one hand and a … baby in another, asking a politicians questions.