Barack Obama urges Mid-East leaders to take opportunity

Apple has launched a social network as part of the latest version of its iTunes software. Ping, as it is known, allows users to build networks of friends and professional musicians, in a similar way to services such as Twitter.

Sony has launched a new music and video download service as it gears up to challenge Apple’s iTunes. The announcement, made at the IFA technology fair in Berlin, was timed to coincide with an Apple media event in the US.

Spanish clothing retailer Zara is opening its new online store on Thursday in France, Spain, Italy, Portugal and the UK. The group already sells a home range online, but its revamped website will offer fashion lines which have only been

Ailing 93-year-old Hollywood socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor was rushed to the emergency room after being found "unresponsive" by her husband on Tuesday (local time). About 11:00 am (local time), Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband called 911 today

Mel Gibson may be suffering one of the worst media scandals of his career, but a new poll shows it is having a relatively small impact on the star’s box office appeal. In a 60 Minutes-Vanity Fair poll released on Monday (US time)

Avatar and Titanic director James Cameron celebrated his 56th birthday by diving to the bottom the world’s deepest lake. It was Cameron’s first venture to the bottom of Lake Baikal in Siberia, a spokesperson from Russia’s Fund

Geoff Boycott, the former England opener, has said the ECB needs to schedule County Championship games during the course of a home Test series to enable national players to return to their counties and work

Kevin Pietersen has apologised for the foul-mouthed Twitter outburst that followed his omission from England’s one-day squad for the forthcoming series against Pakistan, and has set his sights on rediscovering his form during a two

Sunderland have broken their transfer record to sign striker Asamoah Gyan from Rennes for a fee "in excess of £13m" according to the English club.The 24-year-old forward, who scored three times for Ghana at the World Cup, has signed a four-year deal.