Ban Ki-moon wants international community to send extra 3,000 troops and police to central African nation amid violence. Last updated: 21 Feb 2014 03:27. Email Article. Print Article. Share article. Send Feedback. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has ...

With the way the Boko Haram issue is going, I think we need to appeal to foreign powers to assist our Army in curtailing the evil being perpetrated by this sect. There was a time we felt we were actually winning the war against this evil sect, but events of the last ...

BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Thursday for the rapid deployment of at least 3,000 additional troops and police to conflict-wracked Central African Republic to prevent further religious killings that have ...

Flu shots are encouraged this season, especially in those with higher influenza risk factors. (Photo : Reuters). This flu season was believed to have hit younger and middle-aged adults harder than usual. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...

Latest: follow our liveblog for breaking news from Kiev · In pictures: Ukraine protests. For a moment, the white blanket serving as a shroud fell back, revealing the dead man's frozen face and a crimson bullet wound on the left side of his head. A single round ...

The federal government has sought assurances from their Egyptian counterparts that Peter Greste's case will be handled fairly after the Australian journalist was denied bail. Mr Greste, who has been behind bars in Egypt for around two months, will remain in ...

PORTLAND – Portland and 5 other area cities have been named by Google as places that may get access to the company's ultra-high speed Google Fiber broadband network. Portland, Lake Oswego, Tigard, Hillsboro, Beaverton and Gresham are among 34 ...

New York (AFP) - Microsoft's new chief executive Satya Nadella says the tech giant needs to start thinking like a startup again if it wants to move ahead in the new technology landscape. "Culturally, I think we have operated as if we had the formula figured out, ...

Three Al Jazeera journalists have gone on trial in Egypt accused of joining, or aiding and abetting a terrorist organisation. Correspondent Peter Greste and producers Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, pleaded not guilty to the charges. They have been ...

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych may be opening to the idea of early presidential elections, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt told CNN's Hala Gorani, in for Christiane Amanpour, on Thursday. “There's a lot of discussion this evening about ...

NEW YORK--Gold prices fell Thursday after weak manufacturing sector data from China reignited worries the world's second-largest economy is heading for a slowdown. Factory activity in China--the world's top gold consumer--fell to a seven-month low in ...

Protesters campaigning to oust Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra turned to Facebook and other social media to attack businesses linked to her family on Thursday and rallied outside the offices of a property developer whose share price tumbled.

Dubai: The world's largest bloc of Islamic countries agreed on Thursday to send a high-level fact-finding mission to the Central African Republic and to appoint a special representative to coordinate efforts with the African Union and the United Nations.

A Google Fiber installation van. Fiber is supposed to run 100 times faster than typical broadband connections. Google is taking steps to expand Google Fiber, its nascent ultrahigh-speed Internet service, to 34 cities in nine metropolitan areas across the ...

President Obama has warned of consequences if the violence does not end, prompting some commentators to invoke other “red lines” that he has laid down in the past. Others have expressed nostalgia for the Bush administration that took a much more ...

BRUSSELS — The European Union was mulling an arms embargo on Ukraine at a crisis meeting in Brussels yesterday as three EU envoys held talks with the country's embattled leader in Kiev. Describing the escalating violence in Kiev as “utterly ...

An anti-government protester shoots an improvised weapon during clashes with riot police in Independence Square in Kiev on Thursday. Dozens of anti-government protesters, facing Ukraine police officers armed with combat weapons, were killed in a ...

The build up to this year's BRIT Awards was all about how shit it would be – thanks mostly to last years particularly insipid ceremony – but it turned out to be just about on the right side of acceptable. It wasn't what I would class as entertaining – nothing with ...

A few days back Samsung U.S. released an official list of devices that will be getting the Android 4.4 KitKat update in the near future. This finally cleared up the matter for millions of users in the country, many of whom had been wondering exactly when the ...

Egypt's courts have begun trying twenty journalists, including four foreigners, among them, Al-Jazeera's Egyptian-Canadian Bureau Chief, Mohamed Adel Fahmy and Australian correspondent, Peter Geste. They face charges, including aiding a terrorist ...