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Prince pounded his rhinestone-encrusted cane into the floor to make a point. "I don't have time for old people," he insisted. "I want to work with young people."

Silicon Valley is poised to upend the music industry - again.

James Holmes, accused of killing a dozen people and wounding scores more in a July shooting spree at a Colorado movie theatre, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

A worker in Austria whose forearm was severed by a machine drove himself to hospital and asked doctors to reattach his limb, police have confirmed.

Back when she was in college, software developer Monica Wilkinson says, she used to dream of "being able to carry a computer in my head," instead of lugging her books and laptop all over campus.

A bride-to-be was among five killed when a limousine carrying nine women as part of a bridal shower burst into flames on a California bridge, authorities say.

The political speeches get the headlines but most of the 70,000-plus people attending the National Rifle Association's annual meeting are here to see an eye-popping extravaganza of guns and gun culture.

When a Russian intelligence service told the CIA that Tamerlan Tsarnaev had become an Islamic radical looking to join underground groups, the agency put his name in the government's catch-all database for terrorism suspects.

A lightning-quick experimental aircraft made history when it flew at speeds up to 4830kmh above the Pacific Ocean in a test flight, reigniting decades-long efforts to develop a vehicle that could travel faster than a speeding bullet.

New details have emerged about the Boston Marathon bombing suspects as the surviving brother's medical condition marginally improved and two of his alleged victims were buried, including an 8-year-old boy.