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In a development health experts are calling alarming, two bird flu patients in Vietnam died after developing resistance to Tamiflu, the key drug that governments are stockpiling in case of a large-scale outbreak.

Oracle Corp. is merging its entire identity management product portfolio under one umbrella, featuring a single licensing model to spearhead the introduction of the software giant’s new Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite on Tuesday.

The government agreed today to supply Saudi Arabia with the new Eurofighter in the first contract for the jet fighter outside Europe.

The Damascus-Tehran strategic accord is meant to protect both countries from international pressure over their banned weapons programs. Syria commits to allow Iran to “safely store weapons, sensitive equipment or even hazardous materials on Syrian soil, should Iran need such help in time of crisis” – namely UN sanctions.

Online search engine Google has confirmed it will invest $1bn to take a 5% stake in Time Warner‘s AOL unit as part of a major strategic alliance.

More than a million people in a southern China have been warned not to drink tap water after a factory dumped poisonous cadmium into the water supply.

Seagate and Maxtor confirmed the acquisition. The deal is worth $1.9 billion.

School pupils as young as 12 are to be given nicotine patches to help them stop smoking. Nurses and trained staff at six secondary schools in County Durham, close to the prime minister’s Sedgefield constituency, will prescribe the treatment and monitor usage and results.

Did Paris Hilton get the boot from an L.A. nightclub for dissing her ex-pal Nicole Richie?

In Los Angeles, a cache of roughly 50 pounds of old, deteriorating dynamite was found in a warehouse following a standoff, and authorities burned down the building after determining the explosives were too dangerous to move.