MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti) – A virus frozen for 30,000 years in Siberian permafrost has been revived by a team of French and Russian scientists, they said Monday. The researchers named the microbe “Pithovirus” after the “pithos” container that ...

Apple's chief beancounter Peter Oppenheimer - the man who has been a fruity constant during Apple's dark pre-iPod days and amid the meteoric rise since - is to call it a day at the end of September. The Cupertino finance lord manages all the grey aspects of ...

Fresh off its win as 'Best Picture' at this year's Academy Awards, the historical drama '12 YEARS A SLAVE' is set to make a major expansion into U.S. theaters beginning this Friday, March 7th, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film will be out on DVD ...

March 4 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg West Editor-At-Large Cory Johnson examines the career of Apple's retiring CFO Peter Oppenheimer and discusses his successor, Luca Maestri, on Bloomberg Television's “Market Makers.” Please enable JavaScript to view ...

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Peter Oppenheimer said in the statement that he plans to spend more time with his family, get more involved at California Polytechnic State University, travel and finish his pilot's licence. Photo: AFP. New York: Apple Inc. said chief financial officer (CFO) Peter ...

THE second day of Oscar Pistorius's murder trial was dramatically interrupted today amidst allegations that a South African television channel was broadcasting a photograph of a witness – in breach of a court order guaranteeing privacy to witnesses who ...

Gravity, which scooped seven Oscars on March 2, has some fans who are literally out of this world. Aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins and Rick Mastracchio and JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata congratulated the filmmakers ...

Barcelona captain Carles Puyol has announced he will leave the Catalan giants at the end of the season in a press conference this afternoon. The news broke earlier today that Puyol was likely to call time on his Barcelona career and it was even speculated ...

NICOSIA, Cyprus—The Cyprus parliament on Tuesday approved a slightly amended privatization bill, meeting a condition set by international creditors for the disbursement of fresh aid to the island. The vote came just days after parliament rejected an earlier ...

Cairo — Egypt on Tuesday deported an American anti-war activist who was trying to travel to the Gaza Strip, airport officials and the activist herself said. Medea Benjamin, who co-founded the CodePink anti-war group, was detained on arrival in Cairo airport ...

Parliament passes bill critical to meeting international bailout terms a day before deadline is set to expire. Last updated: 04 Mar 2014 15:01. Email Article. Print Article. Share article. Send Feedback. Left-wing parties had thrown out the bill over concerns that ...

Secret documents that revealed Britain would not impose sanctions or support military action against Russia do 'not necessarily' reflect the Government's decision, William Hague said today. The Foreign Secretary told MPs all options remain open after the ...

Sandra Bullock has revealed the difficulty the cast and crew of Oscar-winning Gravity had making the film. Speaking about the wire work that was involved in creating the zero gravity effects, the actress says how the team 'figured it out together'. "It was an ...

NEW YORK — Global markets recovered Tuesday after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops participating in military exercises near Ukraine to return to their bases. Stocks rose, while oil and gold fell. KEEPING SCORE: Dow Jones industrial ...

Freezing rain, ice and slick roads made a dangerous wintry mix in the Houston area, leading to power outages, traffic wrecks and other problems. News >; US News. Apple CFO to retire, successor named. | March 4, 2014 | Updated: March 4, 2014 8:20am.

Social media giant Facebook is currently in talks to acquire Titan Aerospace, a company that manufactures solar-powered drones, TechCrunch reports. The acquisition is reportedly in an effort to help with the Internet.org initiative, a movement Facebook is part ...

Pretoria - The couple who heard a woman screaming the night Oscar Pistorius shot dead Reeva Steenkamp felt morally obliged to come forward, the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria heard on Tuesday. "We initially did not want to get involved," IT project ...

CAIRO — Egyptian armed forces chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah el-Sissi has given the clearest signal yet that he will run for president, saying he cannot ignore the demands of the “majority”, Egypt's state news agency reported on Tuesday. El-Sissi, who ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp said on Tuesday that it has sold 6 million PlayStation 4 game consoles as of March 2, well ahead of its target for the fiscal year to the end of this month. Sony has said it hoped to sell 5 million units by the end of March after ...