As a parent if you don't know your planking from your owling, then today is the day to get up to speed with all things internet - it is international Safer Internet Day. According to new research commissioned by the Australian Communications and Media ...

SWITZERLAND'S knife-edge decision to curb immigration from the EU raises major problems, heavyweight Germany has warned, as Swiss authorities moved to limit the damage to ties with the 28-nation bloc. As both sides mulled the fallout from yesterday's ...

MPs have backed calls for a ban on smoking in cars in England and Wales when children are passengers, by a majority of 269. The Labour-supported amendment empowers, but does not compel, the government to make it a criminal offence for drivers to fail ...

At least 50 people have died due to torrential rains and landslides in the central African country of Burundi. Heavy rain started falling on Sunday night, causing fast and severe flooding in and around the national capital of Bujumbura. Power has been cut to ...

Bill Gates, who is about to play an expanded role at Microsoft as an adviser to new Chief Executive Satya Nadella, spent Monday answering questions on a Reddit 'Ask Me anything' session, including one on his new job at the tech behemoth. Gates reiterated ...

A total of 460 civilians were evacuated Monday from Syria's besieged old city of Homs, the governor of Homs said. Most of the evacuees were women, children and elderly people, Xinhua quoted Governor Talal Barazi as saying while stressing upon the ...

Swiss voters narrowly approved an anti-immigration ballot measure Sunday. The margin was thin, 50.3%, but the effects could be wide-ranging and damaging. Switzerland is not a member of the EU, but agreements with Brussels allow for the free movement ...

Updated: 07:37, Tuesday February 11, 2014. UN says Homs operation extended. The United Nations says an operation to allow civilians to leave besieged districts of the Syrian city of Homs will be extended until Wednesday night. The announcement on ...

Don't blame Mario for your favorite game disappearing from app stores. Nintendo denies it had anything to do with the death of the uber-popular app Flappy Bird. Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen deleted the game Sunday as rumors spread that Nintendo ...

Spain's National Court ordered international warrants for China's former president, Jiang Zemin, left, and former prime minister, Li Peng. Andrew Wong/Reuters. MADRID — For nearly two decades, Spanish judges have been the provocateurs of international ...

Kenya: The storm stirred by former International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo's confession that he was pressured by diplomats during his Kenyan probe featured in a Jubilee leaders' meeting at State House in Nairobi. Sources ...

In an attempt to prevent the spread of disease, a Canadian non-profit installed the country's first-ever crack pipe vending machines in Vancouver, CTV reported. With the vending machines, drug users can purchase as many Pyrex crack pipes as they need for ...

Lucky teachers. Approximately 73 percent of U.S. children and young adults consume caffeine, according to a study published in the journal Pediatrics Monday. The study found that while overall caffeine consumption rates among American youth haven't ...

Switzerland's decision to impose curbs on immigrants from the European Union has reignited the debate on freedom of movement in Europe, Downing Street said, as leading EU states warned Switzerland there would be repercussions for a vote that stunned ...

BANGKOK: Hundreds of farmers rallied outside Thailand's justice ministry on Monday to protest against the state's failure to pay them for rice bought under a controversial subsidy scheme that the caretaker administration in Bangkok is struggling to fund.

Johannesburg — A South African court declared left-wing firebrand Julius Malema provisionally insolvent on Monday, deepening his tax troubles but leaving him free to contest the upcoming election. Malema was expelled from the ruling ANC in 2012 and ...

Switzerland's knife-edge decision to curb immigration from the EU raises major problems, heavyweight Germany warned on Monday, as Swiss authorities moved to limit the damage to ties with the 28-nation bloc. PHOTOS. Women pass by election placards in ...

Canadian poet Anne Carson's long form poem, Red Doc, has been shortlisted for a new U.K. fiction prize, the Folio, which aims to compete with the illustrious Man Booker. “It's been almost 20 years since a major prize was launched in this country and we felt ...

"Flappy Bird" fans, have no fear -- your favorite app has found a new nest. Gamers cried fowl when the creator of the highly addictive mobile app "Flappy Bird" plucked the game from the App Store and Google Play, saying his creation "ruin[ed] [my] simple life.".

BEIRUT — A second round of Syrian peace talks started acrimoniously on Monday as the two sides traded accusations over disruptions to humanitarian operations in the city of Homs and the Syrian government alleged mass killings in nearby Hama.