(BBC NEWS) – Apple has confirmed that its new operating system, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, will be released on 28 August. Snow Leopard is Apple’s biggest operating system update since the firm moved from the “Classic” OS in 2001. Apple said the new operating system (OS) is almost half the size of previous [...]

Henry Allingham was the last surviving founding member of the RAF (BBC NEWS) – Henry Allingham, the world’s oldest man and one of the last surviving World War I servicemen, has died at the age of 113, his care home has said. Mr Allingham served with the Royal Naval Air Service in WWI, later transferring [...]

(BBC NEWS) – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen kept its place at the top of the North American box office chart, taking $42.3m (£26.2m) over the weekend. The robotic blockbuster sequel narrowly beat competition from animation movie Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs into second place. The adventures of a woolly mammoth and his friends [...]

(BBC NEWS) – R&B singer Chris Brown has pleaded guilty in the US to one count of assault on his former girlfriend, pop star Rihanna. Brown, 19, was sentenced to five years’ probation and ordered to do six months of community service. Brown had faced charges of assaulting Rihanna, 21, during a row in February. [...]

(BBC NEWS) – Disney’s romantic comedy The Proposal has hit the top of the North American box office on its opening weekend, early estimates show. The film, starring Sandra Bullock as a hard-nosed executive who coerces her assistant into a fake marriage to avoid deportation, took $34.1m (£20.7m). It puts last week’s number one, bachelor [...]

Tomatoes are a rich source of lycopene (BBC NEWS) – Scientists say a natural supplement made from tomatoes, taken daily, can stave off heart disease and strokes. The tomato pill contains an active ingredient from the Mediterranean diet – lycopene – that blocks “bad” LDL cholesterol that can clog the arteries. Ateronon, made by a [...]

(BBC NEWS) – International scientists say they have found the first evidence of resistance to the world’s most effective drug for treating malaria. They say the trend in western Cambodia has to be urgently contained because full-blown resistance would be a global health catastrophe. Drugs are taking longer to clear blood of malaria parasites than [...]

(BBC NEWS) – Carol Ann Duffy has been named as the new Poet Laureate, the first woman to be appointed in the 341-year history of the post. Duffy, 53, who takes over immediately from Andrew Motion and will serve 10 years in the position, says she will give the £5,750 annual payment away. The author, [...]

Aerosmith are fronted by Steven Tyler and Joe Perry (BBC NEWS) – Rock stars Aerosmith are to hold a free concert in Hawaii to placate angry fans who brought a legal case against them. The Walk This Way hitmakers cancelled a sold-out show in Maui two years ago, leaving hundreds of fans out of pocket. [...]

Local media is satisfied Sohan Dosova is the oldest woman in Kazakhstan (BBC NEWS) – “Do you remember Tsar Nikolai’s era? When the Red Army came and when Vladimir Lenin died? Well I do. So take a guess how old I am.” Meet Sohan Dosova – the newly found treasure of Kazakhstan. She is 130 [...]

(BBC NEWS) – American singer-songwriter Carrie Underwood has taken the coveted entertainer of the year title at the Academy of Country Music Awards. Underwood, who shot to fame in 2005 when she won American Idol, said: “I’ve had a lot of good moments in the past four years. This one takes the cake.” The singer [...]

Microsoft put up $250,000 to catch those behind Conficker (BBC NEWS) – Security experts are downplaying the potential impact of a virus which some believe is set to strike on 1 April. Conficker has infected up to 15 million computers to date and is set to change the way it works on Wednesday. There have [...]