History was made by Lesley Brown gave birth after she conceived successfully after being treated by Dr Patrick Steptoe and Professor Robert Edwards. She died at 64.

It was in July 1978 when she gave birth to her daughter Louise who is 33 years of age now. She was born in Oldham General Hospital after she and her husband John had tried to have a baby for nine years. Millions of childless couples were hopeful after Louise was born via fertility treatment.

Louise Brown was the world's first baby to be conceived through IVF.

Judge Richard Posner of Chicago federal court recently put an end to a key case for Apple-Motorola smartphone patent infringement war by ruling that the iPhone maker can not pursue an injunction against Google's recently acquired unit.

The U. S. judge dismissed the Apple vs. Motorola patent infringement case with prejudice and declared that neither of the two parties would be permitted to refile a claim.

On Thursday, during the course of a Nintendo Direct video presentation, Nintendo unveiled a new version of its handheld gaming console - the 3DS XL - which will have a 90 percent bigger screen and a more powerful battery for increased gaming time.

The Nintendo 3DS XL - which will hit the Japan and Europe markets next month; and will be available in the US market on August 19 - will come packaged with a 4-gigabyte SD Card which will enable the users to store downloadable games and applications.

According to court documents filed by Facebook on Wednesday, the judge's approval of the social network's $10-million settlement in a class-action lawsuit pertaining to "Sponsored Stories" will apparently pave the way for the addition of new language to the company's guidelines that inform users of its sponsored ads.

Helen Bannister, a nurse who was well known for helping women deliver, has been struck off the medical register.

The reason for this is that she allegedly went for a cup of tea while a woman was delivering.

She worked at Wrexham Maelor Hospital and in 2010 had retired from here.

It was heard by the Nursing and Midwifery Council, NMC, that she allowed a woman with pre-eclampsia to get discharged.

It was stated that she was not fit to practice as her practice meant danger to women who wanted to deliver.

The fashion industry has been blamed for the death of a teenage girl who was found hanged. It should be noted that she was suffering from an eating disorder following the fashion industry's obsession with thinness.

Fourteen-year-old Fiona Geraghty was from Nailsbourne, near Taunton, and was a public school girl and it was in July 2011 that she was found dead in her bedroom. West Somerset Coroner Michael Rose yesterday recorded a verdict of misadventure and asked all fashion magazines to stop putting pictures of wafer-thin models.

The 2012 MacBook Pro is more easily repairable than the MacBook Pro with Retina Display, iFixit found in a teardown of the device.

Apple is known for its super-compact notebooks, but the compact component configurations makes it extremely complex to remove them in case something gets damaged.

However, iFixit found that the 2012 non-Retina Pro does not suffer that setback. In a recent teardown of the 2012 MacBook Pro, iFixit found the new notebook has ample space that makes it easy for you to put your finger in and swap components out.

Internet search firm Yahoo Inc. has acknowledged that it is pursuing talks with social-networking giant Facebook to resolve patent-infringement dispute.

Yahoo lawyers yesterday requested U. S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White in San Francisco to extend deadlines to file replies in the lawsuit by two weeks as the two companies are in talks.

The court filing also revealed that Yahoo lawyers also asked the judge to delay a motion hearing that is currently set for August 10 by two weeks.

With Apple and Google currently involved in a race to enhance their competing 3D mapping services, the companies have recently drawn renewed scrutiny for flying "military-grade spy planes" over some of the leading cities in the US.

Since the ongoing mapping efforts of the two bigwig companies - particularly their use of camera-equipped planes - have apparently led to privacy concerns, staffers for Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N. Y., had a meeting with Google executives on Monday to discuss privacy issues; and will reportedly meet with Apple officials on Friday.

MPs were told by the Government's drugs tsar that youngsters who are caught with cannabis should not be `criminalised'.

Professor Les Iversen have argued that there can a huge impact on the remaining lives of these youngsters after they get a criminal record for cannabis possession.

Professor Iversen, chairman of the Advisory Council on Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), said that an attempt to give civil penalty to first-time offenders should be made by the police and it should use more discretion.