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Online retail titan Amazon.com and bookselling giant Barnes & Noble dueled Tuesday for the devotion of digital book lovers.

US film giant Columbia Pictures has won the US distribution rights for a film about the killing of Osama bin Laden.

The 15-year wait for the return of videogame tough guy "Duke Nukem" will end in June, 2K Games promised on Tuesday.

Rescuers combed through overturned cars and flattened buildings Tuesday hunting for survivors after this Missouri town was struck by one of the strongest US tornadoes ever recorded.

The Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists launched the sixth International Art Photography contest and exhibition in Hanoi.

Airlines halted hundreds of flights on Tuesday after a plume of ash from an erupting volcano in Iceland blew over Britain.

Powerful explosions from a deadly NATO raid shook the Libyan capital Tripoli, killing at least three people and wounding another 150, a government spokesman said.  

China would back France's Finance Minister Christine Lagarde to head the International Monetary Fund, chief French government spokesman Francois Baroin said.  

A developer is rolling out plans to build a 500-foot viewing wheel on the Las Vegas Strip to give visitors an unparalleled view of Sin City.

A plume of ash from an erupting Icelandic volcano is forecast to reach Britain forcing a change in US President Barack Obama's flight plans.

A tornado in Missouri, the deadliest single twister to strike the United States in six decades, killed 116 people.

A plume of ash from an erupting volcano in Iceland could reach the airspace over mainland Europe later this week.

Imagine spending £250,000 and working for a year under immense pressure, only for your creation to be pulled apart after just one week.

Authorities say at least 89 have died in the massive tornado that struck the southwest Missouri city of Joplin.

Le Quang Liem finished second at the Capablanca Memorial 2011 after losing to Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine in the last round early May 22.

A tornado killed 24 people in the Missouri town of Joplin after twisters carved a swathe of destruction through the US southeast.

The world's most powerful Internet and media barons gather in Paris on Tuesday in a show of strength to leaders at the G8 summit.

US President Barack Obama stood his ground to defend his vision of an Israel-Palestinian peace deal.

"The Tree of Life", an epic and ambitious coming-of-age film, won top honours Sunday at the Cannes festival.