SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Apple fans are amped. The computer and gadget maker is expected to announce a new, more powerful version of its wildly popular smartphone this week _ more than a year after it unveiled the iPhone 4. Apple Inc. employees clap their hands to welcome customers at the new Apple Inc. store in Hong Kong on Sept. 24. (Bloomberg) Last week, Apple Inc. e-mailed invitations to a med...

PERUGIA, Italy (AP) -- Amanda Knox left prison Monday, a free woman for the first time in four years, after an Italian appeals court threw out the young American’s murder conviction in the sexual assault and stabbing death of her British roommate. Knox, 24, collapsed in tears after the verdict was read, her lawyers draping their arms around her in support. Her co-defendant and former boyfriend, ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Protests against Wall Street spread across the country Monday as demonstrators marched on Federal Reserve banks and camped out in parks from Los Angeles to Portland, Maine, in a show of anger over the wobbly economy and what they see as corporate greed. Protesters from Occupy Wall Street march down Broadway dressed as corporate zombies Monday in New York. The protests have gathe...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Ralph Steinman, a pioneer in understanding how cells fight disease, tried to help his own immune system thwart his pancreatic cancer. Steinman survived until Friday. Three days later, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine. Family, friends and colleagues socialize in front of a photo of Ralph Steinman during a ceremony to honor his receiving the Nobel Prize in medicine at ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries about the immune system that opened new avenues for the treatment and prevention of infectious illnesses and cancer. American Bruce Beutler and French scientist Jules Hoffmann shared the 10 million-kronor ($1.5 million) award with Canadian-born Ralph Steinman, the Nobel committee at Stockholm's Karolinsk...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- More than a year after the owner of a string of South African strip clubs was shot and killed, police are still chasing his killer. Now the recent deaths of men linked to Lolly Jackson have added to the mystery. In this photo taken Sept. 28, 2011, the crime scene where Mark Andrews was found shot dead is cordoned off by police investigating the murder, near Johannesburg. (AP...

A miniature "magic carpet" made of flexible conductive plastic and driven by electrical current has taken flight in a U.S. laboratory, researchers said. Researchers in Princeton University reported to in Applied Physics that the prototype 4-inch sheet moved at speeds of about a centimeter per second. It is driven by "ripple power"; waves of electrical current driving thin pockets of air from fro...

Coloratura soprano shares her belief in power of music to help those in need The concert schedule of Grammy-winning South Korean soprano Sumi Jo is extremely tight. Successfully finishing the “Hyundai Capital Invitational Sumi Jo Park Concert” at an outdoor stage in Olympic Park in Seoul last Saturday, she had to fly on Tuesday morning for another concert in Busan, and another in Daegu the next...

Former BMW designer Chris Bangle shares ideas and hopes on future design Chris Bangle, former chief of design at BMW, will make his second visit to Seoul early this month. Bangle, who resigned from the German carmaker in 2009, has recently become a design consultant for Samsung Electronics. With tangible results expected to come out during his visit this time, expectations are growing here abo...

SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) — David Lavau's children drove slowly along the perilously curved mountain road, stopping to peer over the treacherous drop-offs and call out for their father, missing for six days. The car of a man who survived for five days after his car plunged 200 feet off a a remote mountain is recovered in Castaic, California. AP-Yonhap News Then, finally, a faint cry: "Help, he...