Google, facing growing scrutiny over its approach to consumer privacy, said Thursday it would open its social networking site to teenagers, matching the policies of its rivals, such as Facebook and MySpace.

When it comes to Smart TV here at CES 2012, we were expecting a bit more of a gigantic Google TV showing and a bit less of an Android-based representation of the environment - that's why seeing the Lenovo K91 in the flesh was a rather nice surprise.

Google is trying again with Google TV, and on Thursday it announced its partners for the television effort before hardware is unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week.

NASA celebrated the new year with a pair of probes circling the moon in the latest mission to understand how Earth's closest neighbor formed.

China launched a super-rapid test train over the weekend which is capable of travelling 500 kilometers per hour, state media said on Monday, as the country moves ahead with its railway ambitions despite serious problems on its high-speed network.

Apple Inc scored a narrow victory against Taiwan's HTC Corp in a patent lawsuit over smartphone technology that will set the stage for further battles between rival makers in the fiercely competitive market.

Little-known software installed on millions of smartphones is raising fresh questions about what data are being collected from mobile devices, where it's going and what it is being used for.

The charity at the center of the Penn State sexual abuse scandal said Monday that its chief executive had resigned amid intensifying questions about whether the organization could survive.

US President Barack Obama has pressed China to recognise it is now a "grown up" economy and start behaving more responsibly on currency and trade issues hurting American companies. China needs "to understand that their role is different now than it might have been 20 years ago or 30 years ago when if they were breaking some rules it didn't really matter, it didn't have a significant impact," Obama said at the end of an Asia-Pacific leaders' meeting.

Mumbai/Tokyo: Reliance Capital has completed the sale of a 26 percent stake in its life insurance venture Reliance Life to Japan's Nippon Life for over Rs (rpt) Rs 3,000 crore, the Anil Ambani-led firm said Wednesday.

MOSCOW - Tens of thousands of Muslim men knelt shoulder-to-shoulder in prayer on the freezing streets of Moscow on Sunday to celebrate the religious holiday of Eid al-Adha.

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, left, and Antonis Samaras, the opposition leader, met with President Karolos Papoulias on Sunday.

Argentina (AP) - President Cristina Fernandez has been re-elected with one of the widest victory margins in Argentine history by persuading voters that she alone, even without her late powerbroker husband, is best able to keep spreading the wealth of an economic boom.