Steve Jobs announces the iPad on January 27, 2010 in San Francisco. Photograph: Ryan Anson/AFP/Getty Images Record sales of Mac computers and strong demand for the iPad has helped Apple post its highest ever quarterly earnings. Steve Jobs declared last night that Apple had enjoyed a “phenomenal... 

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi sits in his wheelchair in a Tripoli hospital. It is almost a year since he was released on medical and compassionate grounds from a Scottish prison for his role in the Lockerbie bombing Photograph: Str/REUTERS The release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was “wrong... 

Trading Plans Going into anything blind is a formula for your failure. This is especially so when you go into the stock market. There’s an old saying that goes, “Fail to plan and you plan to fail.” Simple words to live by but a lot of people have ignored them and have consequently lost thousands... 

Cocaine, guns, sex and knife play — all part of life behind the scenes on the show “House M.D.” This according to a new lawsuit filed by a bitter ex-employee. In a lawsuit, filed in L.A. County Superior Court, a former assistant prop master named Carl Jones claims he was fired from the... 

China’s signing away Hong Kong to the British subsequently vastly reduced world poverty, says Paul Romer. Photograph: Alex Hofford/EPA Some professors hold on to their careers for dear tenure, eking out threadbare research material and desperately placing articles in whichever journal...