Manchester United’s Ritchie De Laet attempts to hold off Kansas City Wizards’ Michael Harrington. Photograph: Larry W. Smith/EPA Sir Alex Ferguson felt inexperience was to blame for Manchester United’s surprise defeat by 10-man Kansas City Wizards. Kei Kamara scored the Wizards’... 

Intel controls more than 70% of the world market for microchips The world’s biggest microchip manufacturer, Intel, has agreed to tidy up its act under a settlement with US competition regulators over charges that it abused its dominance by bullying computer companies into exclusive deals. Intel... 

From a rock to a hard place. Asil Nadir, pictured in Northern Cyprus in 1993, is heading back to Britain to face fraud charges 9.33am: As well as being another example of the City’s grubbier side, the Nadir case also has major, and Major, political implications. At his height, Nadir donated... 

Australian National University A tractor beam in action suspends a small particle over an optics table. WASHINGTON –  Tractor beams, energy rays that can move objects, are a science fiction mainstay. But now they are becoming a reality — at least for moving very tiny objects. Researchers from...