Avram Grant has quit as Ghana's head coach after more than two years in charge, the country's football association said on Tuesday. The Ghana Football Association said in a statement that “the two parties will mutually part ways after their contract ...

Avram Grant has quit as Ghana's head coach after more than two years in charge, the country's football association said on Tuesday. The Ghana Football Association said in a statement that “the two parties will mutually part ways after their contract ...

The surest way of sending the world to sleep is to give it “a wake-up call”. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) applies the cliché to “half the Earth's animals” having disappeared in the past 40 years. The cause is chiefly human exploitation and habitat decline.

A newly discovered security bug in a widely used piece of Linux software, known as 'Bash', could pose a bigger threat to computer users than the 'Heartbleed' bug that surfaced in April, cyber experts warned on Wednesday. Bash is the software used to ...

Government and rebel forces exchanged dozens of prisoners captured during fighting in Ukraine as part of a ceasefire agreement sealed earlier this month. The transfer took place outside the main rebel stronghold of Donetsk early Friday under the watch of ...

Canadian scientists have found one of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition ships lost in the Arctic in 1846, coming one step closer to solving “one of the greatest mysteries of Arctic exploration,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Tuesday. “Although we do not ...

The authorities in Jammu and Kashmir were clearly caught unawares by the massive flooding and the destruction of life and property (Editorial, Sept.9). The only positive is that political brinkmanship has taken a back seat amid efforts to ensure relief and ...

Microsoft on Thursday launched three new Lumia smartphones, including one designed for “selfie” enthusiasts, in a bid to expand its portfolio as it battles the likes of Samsung and Apple in the booming, yet fiercely competitive, global smartphone market.

Microsoft will seek to draw more people to its Internet-based services with two new mid-range smartphones it unveiled on Thursday, including one designed to help people take better selfies. Both devices are under the Lumia brand Microsoft bought from ...

The shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, an African-American, by the Ferguson (Missouri) Police in the U.S. on the afternoon of August 9, led to major civilian unrest in the city and its neighbourhood. During the week-long violence, bottles and Molotov ...

Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano burst forth with a small eruption under the ice of Europe's largest glacier, scientists said, prompting the country to close airspace over the area. Thousands of small earthquakes have rattled the volcano, located deep beneath the ...

A Tokyo-bound Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight on Sunday reportedly returned to the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), 50 minutes after departure due to safety reasons. Flight MH70 departed from KLIA for Tokyo's Narita Airport at 10:50am local time ...

Thailand's junta-appointed legislature has nominated the country's military ruler to be the next prime minister. The assembly voted unanimously on Thursday to name General Prayuth Chan-ocha to the post during a session in Bangkok. General Prayuth was ...

Thailand's junta-appointed legislature has nominated the country's military ruler to be the next prime minister. The assembly voted unanimously on Thursday to name General Prayuth Chan-ocha to the post during a session in Bangkok. General Prayuth was ...

The U.N. health agency says the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has now killed more than 1,200 people. The World Health Organisation says the death toll has risen to 1,229 from among the 2,240 reported cases in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.

Israel and Palestine have agreed to extend a temporary ceasefire in Gaza by 24 hours to allow more time for negotiating a lasting truce, a Palestinian official has said. The truce aims at giving more time for negotiations on a complete long-term ceasefire, said ...

Israel's nearly two-month military campaign against the Gaza Strip has cost the coastal enclave an estimated six to eight billion dollars, a senior Palestinian official said on Monday. After over 40 days of an Israeli war and blockade, “the territory is now a ...

At least three civilians were killed and 10 others were wounded in overnight shelling of the main rebel stronghold in eastern Ukraine, a day after a leadership reshuffle appeared to signal Moscow's attempt to further distance itself from the pro—Russian ...

At least three civilians were killed and 10 others were wounded in overnight shelling of the main rebel stronghold in eastern Ukraine, a day after a leadership reshuffle appeared to signal Moscow's attempt to further distance itself from the pro—Russian ...

U.S. fighters dropped bombs on Islamic militants in Iraq on Friday, the Pentagon said, redeeming President Barack Obama's promise of military force to counter the advancing militants and confront the threat they pose to Iraqi civilians and Americans.