Manchester United's Scottish manager Alex Ferguson looks on before the English Premier League football match between West Ham United and Manchester United at...
Manchester United's Scottish manager Alex Ferguson looks on before the English Premier League football match between West Ham United and Manchester United at...
PUERTO PRINCESA, Philippines: A Chinese fishing vessel that ran aground on one of the Philippines' most famous coral reefs more than a week...
BAGHDAD: Mortars and a bombing north of Baghdad killed eight people on Friday, on the eve of Iraq's first polls since US troops...
SHANGHAI: General Motors will launch 17 new or updated models in China this year as it seeks to maintain dominance in the world's...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is hoping to wean jailed Al-Qaeda militants off religious extremism with counselling, spa treatments and plenty of exercise at a...
KABUL: Taliban insurgents killed 13 local policemen Friday in an attack on their checkpoint in southeast Afghanistan, officials said. The policemen were sleeping...
BEIJING: More than 50 percent of patients infected with a new type of bird flu in China had no contact with poultry, the...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A rocket attack close to a Pakistani election rally wounded at least eight people on Friday in a troubled tribal district...
BAGHDAD: Violence spiked as Iraq readied Friday for its first elections since US troops withdrew, with 27 people killed in a late-night bombing...
SINGAPORE: Qatar International Petroleum Marketing Co, or Tasweeq, sold eight 600,000-barrel cargoes of al-Shaheen crude for June loading at steady premiums from the...
SEOUL: A South Korean court on Friday sentenced a convicted North Korean spy to four years in prison for collecting information on the...
TAIPEI: Taiwan's ailing former president Chen Shui-bian has been transferred to a prison hospital to continue serving his 20-year jail term for corruption,...
SAN FRANCISCO: A US judge dismissed for the second time Thursday a billion-dollar lawsuit by entertainment giant Viacom accusing Google-owned website YouTube of...
UNITED NATIONS, United States: Nearly seven million people need humanitarian assistance in Syria, a senior United Nations official said Thursday, criticizing Damascus for...
This file handout photo received on April 19, 2011 by the Kyotango City government shows Jiroemon Kimura of Japan laughing at his home...
SAN FRANCISCO: Google said Thursday its profit climbed to $3.35 billion in the first three months of the year as revenue thrived despite...
NEW YORK: US technology giant Microsoft on Thursday reported a 19 percent year-on-year increase in profit despite contending with the fast-declining personal computer...
LONDON: Malala Yousafzai, the teenage girl shot by the Taliban for promoting girls' education, will make her first public speech on her 16th...