CAIRO - Three people were killed as thousands of angry protesters clashed with security forces in Egypt's capital Cairo and other cities for a second day Friday over the deaths of 74 football fans on...

TEL AVIV - Iran is trying to strike Israeli targets around the world in retaliation for the assassination of its nuclear scientists, a top security official has warned.

Yoram Cohen, the head of...

BANGKOK - Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes tribunal has rejected an appeal by a Khmer Rouge jailer Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch, and increased his sentence to life imprisonment for crimes against...

NAIROBI, Kenya - A good harvest and food aid inflows have improved the situation in Somalia, the United Nations said Friday declaring that the country is out of "famine" situation, while underlining...

AMSTERDAM - The International Court of Justice has ordered Italy to annul all compensation claims against Germany for Nazi war crimes, saying Rome had breached international laws when its courts...

BEIJING - China, the holder of one of the world's largest foreign exchange reserves, has indicated it may get "more deeply involved" in resolving the European Union debt crisis.

This was stated...

TOKYO - Japan's Panasonic Friday predicted staggering annual loss of $10.2 billion, joining rivals Sony and Sharp who have also forecast combined losses of $6 billion.

Panasonic said it was headed...

LONDON - The eurozone's service sector has shown some growth, marginal though, for the first time in four months, raising expectations that a recession could be kept at bay.

The Markit eurozone...

BRUSSELS - Several countries in Europe are facing gas supply crunch with severe cold weather driving up demand and drop in Russian supplies via Kiev, raising fears of a repeat of the 2009...

LONDON - Seven National Health Services (NHS) trusts, including three in London, have been identified for a bailout from a 1.5 billion pounds government fund to relieve major financial pressures.
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FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2005 file photo, Steve Appleton, CEO and chairman of Micron Technology Inc., looks out through the engine compartment of his stunt jet airplane inside the hanger where he...

With the UN Security Council due to consider a resolution condemning violence in Syria, a Britain-based rights group says Syrian government forces killed more than 200 people in the city of Homs. ...

Chemi Shalev / Don't knock the media's bias and double standards on Israel Disproportionate coverage is the flip side of disproportionate support for Israel, and thus a critical element in...

WASHINGTON - Dismissing economic sanctions that are beginning to bite, Iran's supreme leader said Friday that his country wouldn't bow to Western demands that it stop enriching uranium and...

Activists protested at embassies across the world Friday against Syrian President Bashar Assad's crackdown on citizens. Rallies in both Cairo and Berlin degraded into riots as people broke...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will meet with Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in Qatar on Sunday, AFP quoted Fatah party spokesman Azzam al-Ahmad as saying.According to Ahmad, the two...

Most of those killed in the Port Said football stadium on Wednesday night were crushed in a stampede and the government declared three days of mourning, but protesters hold the military-led...

VIENNA - Iran's apparent reluctance to let UN inspectors visit a military site near Tehran underlines the uphill task they face in getting the Islamic state to address suspicions it may be...

Israel's blockade of goods coming into the Gaza Strip has been the target of flotillas and a cause for concern among human rights activists and economists alike. But the difficulty of getting...

The pair, seen here posing with their fellow prefects, were members of the elite group known as the Eton Society, founded in 1811 as a debating...

In one episode, future heir Prince William, now the Duke of Cambridge, reveals that despite being one of the most famous women in the world, following her 60-year reign, Queen Elizabeth II...

But the man queueing up at the checkout with a basket full of fresh fish and vegetables for a family meal had in fact just dealt with a resignation from one of his Cabinet...

‘When we saw Mark and Caroline’s beautiful daughter it was so emotional, knowing that Adam had helped make it happen,’ said Mrs Rogers, 59, from Blackburn, a former assistant...

In news to gladden the heart of Prince Charles, who was once much mocked for having conversations with cabbages and the like, it appears science has caught up with what many gardeners have long held...

Many great events are being planned for this Diamond Jubilee year — from the river pageant along the Thames to royal tours of every region in the land. But nothing will endure quite like what...

Samples of soil found that the surface had been starved of any moisture that might enhance the view that there are living organisms on the red...

A Cathedral verger who was accused of groping a woman as she waited for a service to start said yesterday that he was gay and ‘had no reason to touch...

The UK ranks 16th out of 27 countries in the European Union for the predicted rise in cases, according to the data published by the World Cancer Research...

Thousands of pet owners are preparing to pay huge veterinary bills – or face the heartbreaking prospect of having their beloved animals put down – after their insurance policies were...

A drink and a takeaway is a staple of a weekend evening in, but one enterprising couple have combined the two in one bottle by selling pizza flavoured...

He suggested that young soldiers earning a basic private’s salary of just...

The professional body representing GPs has demanded the Government scrap its NHS reforms, warning that they will cause ‘irreparable damage’ to patient...

Excluding those who only enter the National Lottery, the proportion of the female population who gamble has soared by a third to more than half for the first...

The head of the BBC on Friday accused Iran of intimidating staff members of its Persian service through slander, snooping and the arrest of their...

Etched into three brass war memorials were the names of men who had made the ultimate sacrifice for this country in the fight to defend freedom and overcome the rise of...

The two-day trip, which begins with a glamorous state dinner at the White House on March 13, is the first time Mrs Cameron has accompanied her husband on an official trip abroad since he became Prime...

M&S did not fare much better in fourth place with 83. Their roses, priced...

Sacked: Charles Oloro outside the HMV store where he worked until he was fired for apprehending a shoplifter who had already made it through the front...

Yesterday’s hour-long service a stone's throw from the heart of the financial district proved so popular that worshippers filled the streets around the tiny community mosque. City workers...

The Royal Navy is sending a nuclear submarine to the South Atlantic to protect the Falkland Islands from the threat of Argentine military action (file...

A monthly ‘health check’ of the UK economy showed it rebounded strongly in January, easing fears of a double-dip recession after a slump at the end of last...

'Apple appealed this ruling because Motorola repeatedly refuses to license this patent to Apple on reasonable terms, despite having declared it an industry standard patent seven years...

Yet now it has emerged that radioactive water is continuing to leak at the stricken site. These were spotted by workers at the reprocessing areas and were found to release enough beta rays that can...

Proudly flying the British Red Ensign, the giant cruise liner 'Star Princess' had sailed into the Argentinian port of Ushuaia before heading north to the Falkland...

Michael died of mesothelioma, an incurable cancer that takes hold in the lining of the lungs. Nothing could have saved him. He and his wife had decided not to tell their two young children of his...

Bank bosses have been 'creaming it' at the expense of their shareholders over the last decade, the chairman of troubled Royal Bank of Scotland admitted...

In the film, a New York police psychologist has to attempt to talk down a former policeman who has threatened to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel...

But the freezing conditions didn't keep the Queen and Princess Anne from taking part in a tree-planting ceremony at the new 20-acre Jubilee Wood on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk...

Burls, from Peckham, South London, thought he had evaded police as he covered most of his face with a scarf while setting fire to a Peckham store and nearby Post...

A legal probe was launched last year after complaints that an Austrian website was offering alcohol for sale adorned with portraits of the Nazi leader and...