http://edition.cnn.com – When Trevor Blackwell, CEO of a company called Anybots, wants to know what his employees are up to, he sends a robot to their cubicles."I can see if people are busy on something -- and then won't interrupt them," he said this week. "Or, you know, if they're doing something that looks interesting, or if they look stuck, I'll have a conversation with them."

http://edition.cnn.com – A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck northeastern Iran on Friday, injuring at least 110 people, according to state-run media. The quake hit 715 kilometers (445 miles) east of Tehran and was centered 26.1 kilometers (16.2 miles) deep, the U.S. Geological Survey said.The city of Torbat-e Heydarieh, at the epicenter, was rocked for about 10 seconds, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

http://edition.cnn.com – A bomb blast killed four soldiers and injured 41 others in northeastern India on Friday morning, authorities said. The roadside bomb went off as the soldiers were patrolling an area in the state of Assam, said P.K. Goswami, district commissioner. The victims are members of the nation's Central Reserve Police Force.

http://www.bbc.co.uk – Italy's PM Silvio Berlusconi insists that his ruling right-wing coalition will survive despite a split with his party's co-founder Gianfranco Fini.Mr Berlusconi and his allies in the People of Freedom Party (PDL) called on Mr Fini to step down on Thursday as speaker of the lower house of parliament, accusing him of dissent.

http://edition.cnn.com – Flooding caused by monsoon rains has killed at least 325 people across Pakistan, according to an aid organization.That toll includes 25 people killed in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, said Anwar Kazmi, spokesperson for Edhi Foundation. The hardest hit region was the northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, where 228 people have died, he said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk – Researchers have identified rocks that they say could contain the fossilised remains of life on early Mars.The team made their discovery in the ancient rocks of Nili Fossae.Their work has revealed that this trench on Mars is a "dead ringer" for a region in Australia where some of the earliest evidence of life on Earth has been buried and preserved in mineral form.

http://www.bbc.co.uk – Personal details of 100m Facebook users have been collected and published on the net by a security consultant.Ron Bowes used a piece of code to scan Facebook profiles, collecting data not hidden by the user's privacy settings.The list, which has been shared as a downloadable file, contains the URL of every searchable Facebook user's profile, their name and unique ID.

http://www.foxnews.com – A passenger jet that officials suspect veered off course in monsoon rains and thick clouds crashed into hills overlooking Pakistan's capital Wednesday, killing all 152 people on board and scattering body parts and twisted metal far and wide.The Airblue jet's crash was the deadliest ever in Pakistan, and just the latest tragedy to jolt a country that has suffered numerous deaths in recent years due to Al Qadea and Taliban attacks. At least two U.S. citizens were on the plane, which carried mostly Pakistanis.

http://edition.cnn.com – Rising waters from flooding in northeastern China hit a chemical plant and washed thousands of containers filled with explosive chemicals into a river, state media said Thursday.The floods in Jilin province have so far killed 13 people and affected 150,000 others, the Xinhua news agency said.

http://edition.cnn.com – Three iPad users claim that because the iPad will shut itself off after remaining in direct sunlight for long enough, it fails to meet the promises Apple made about using the device as an e-book reader. The group has filed a federal class-action lawsuit in the Northern California district to "redress and end this pattern of unlawful conduct."

http://www.bbc.co.uk – David Cameron has rejected calls for the famous Koh-i-Noor diamond, which has been part of the Crown Jewels for 150 years, to be returned to India.The diamond, which was mined in India, was seized by the East India Company in 1849 and presented to Queen Victoria.Indian politicians have long urged the 105-carat treasure's return.