Sarah Palin barely waited for the dust to settle on the wreckage of the Republican party before offering herself as its saviour today.But while Palin's sights seem fixed on 2012 after the meteoric rise and fall of her 68 days on the national stage, it is far from clear her fellow Republicans will welcome the return of the woman many blame for John McCain's defeat and thei (read more)

Psystar, possibly Apple's least favourite PC manufacturer, has put out a press release to say it is "shipping Blue-ray and 9800GT equipped computers before Apple's release of these peripheral products on their own computers." Apple's tardiness is odd since Apple has been on the Blu-ray board for years, and plenty of Windows PCs have also had Blu-ray drives for years. This (read more)

Under new visa arrangements to deter bogus students, from March next year universities and colleges will need licences to teach overseas students, the government announced today.Institutions will have to get a licence from the UK Border Agency (UKBA) before sponsoring non-European students to come to study in the UK.The student tier of the new Australian-style points-base (read more)

On the developments in Iraq, the Saudi Foreign Minister expressed the welcome of the Kingdom of the results of the 5th meeting of Ministers of Interior of Iraq's neighboring countries held in the Jord...

BP sees its profits for the July to September period more than double to $10bn (£6.4bn), buoyed by record high oil prices.