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What's that? It's a monster summer!
Sunday 21 July 2013
Brace yourself, because they’re going to be everywhere this summer – from the mutant creatures on our cinema screens to the music charts to giant arenas
Sir Elton John Hyde Park concert cancelled because of appendicitis
Tuesday 09 July 2013
The star called in doctors after being taken ill during his European tour
Apple takes $3m daily from TV and movies: What's next for Apple TV?
Thursday 20 June 2013
HBO Go and WatchESPN added to the streaming service's line-up
Kings Of Leon and Rizzle Kicks to join Justin Timberlake at the iTunes Festival 2013
Wednesday 19 June 2013
Rock group Kings Of Leon, chart duo Rizzle Kicks and composer Ludovico Einaudi are among the latest headline acts added to this year's iTunes Festival.
Tim Cook launches iTunes Radio free streaming service to rival Spotify
Monday 10 June 2013
It was a reminder that the Prism surveillance scandal was hardly halting the global demand for new technology. On Monday night Apple, one of the eight companies implicated in the recent Prism surveillance leaks, launched its eagerly anticipated online music streaming service.
iTunes festival 2013: Justin Timberlake, Jessie J and Primal Scream announced as headliners
Thursday 30 May 2013
Justin Timberlake is to headline at this year's iTunes festival in London.
Tips and deals of the week: Prince de Galles hotel, Where Chefs Eat app and East Coast Trains offer
Saturday 18 May 2013
The hotel
Ant and Dec on course to top the Official UK Singles Chart with 'Let's Get Ready To Rhumble'
Tuesday 26 March 2013
TV hosts Ant and Dec are on course for their first number one single - 17 years after their chart career came to an end.
Parents whose son spent £1,700 of their money on 'free' iPad game gets full refund from Apple
Friday 01 March 2013
The parents of a five-year-old boy who spent £1,700 of their money on iTunes have received a full refund from Apple.
David Bowie's 'The Next Day' available free and in full streamed on iTunes
Friday 01 March 2013
You can stream all 53 minutes of the musician's new album now on iTunes
Apple offers cash to angry parents
Tuesday 26 February 2013
Apple has proposed to pay compensation to parents whose children made “in-app purchases” without their permission, following claims that it failed to publicise the feature of children-targeted games.
Apple could pay out $100m to compensate parents whose children made inadvertent app purchases
Tuesday 26 February 2013
Apple could potentially pay out $100 million to customers who were charged when their children inadvertently made in-app purchases from iTunes, court papers have revealed.
Agenda: Topshop; Stacie Stewart; Scott Walker; Borgen; Primavera Sound 2013
Sunday 03 February 2013
Fashion: Faster than a speeding bullet
One to Watch: Allen Stone, Singer, 25
Friday 01 February 2013
Could he be the real deal? The curly-haired US soul singer has been likened to Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye for his high falsetto voice.
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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