Ruling Socialist Party legislators voted to ask the state prosecutor to investigate Maria Corina Machado. CAR's people in 'pure survival mode' · Putin signs Crimea treaty · Echoes from expansion after Big Bang discovered · Lebanon struggles to contain Syrian ...

Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague speaks at the start of a European Union foreign ministers meeting in Brussels March 17, 2014. Hague said on Monday he expects EU ministers to agree sanctions including travel bans and asset freezes against ...

Defence advocate Barry Roux is seen on day 10 of Oscar Pistorius's murder trial at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria. Picture: Phill Magakoe. Related Stories. Roux using tried and tested techniques · Mystery of blood around Oscar's bed · Oscar cop ...

Apple added a new phone to its iPhone line Tuesday, but don't get too excited: It's not what you may think. The firm has released a new version of the iPhone 5c to some overseas markets: the United Kingdom, France, Germany, China and Australia. The new ...

Google and Viacom settled a copyright lawsuit filed by the media giant related to content hosted on the video service YouTube. In a joint statement released Tuesday, both companies say they resolved a lawsuit filed by Viacom in 2007 over copyrighted ...

Israeli defence minister has criticised Obama's handling of world issues; He said: 'I hope the U.S. comes to its senses. If it doesn't, it will suffer'. By Simon Tomlinson. PUBLISHED: 08:33 EST, 18 March 2014 | UPDATED: 08:38 EST, 18 March 2014. 0. View

Georgia May Jagger has pulled out of an appearance at Melbourne Fashion Week following the death of L'Wren Scott. The 22-year-old model - the daughter of the designer's partner Sir Mick Jagger and his ex-wife Jerry Hall - was set to appear on the runway ...

Apple Inc. (AAPL:US) is selling a new, cheaper version of the iPhone 5c with less memory in the U.K. and Europe. The latest iPhone 5c has 8 gigabytes and is priced at 429 pounds ($712) without a contract, compared with 469 pounds for the 16-gigabyte ...

Researchers with the National Science Foundation-funded BICEP2 Collaboration today announced that their telescope in Antarctica has allowed them to collect what they believe is the first direct evidence for cosmic inflation. Inflation is the cataclysmic event ...

With Fifa's name dragged through the mud time and time again, these latest allegations are set to rock the soccer world. The former vice-president of soccer's world governing body and President of CONCACAF for over two decades, Jack Warner, has been ...

Normally, Apple uses its glitzy new product introductions to quietly retire old models. When the company launched the iPad Air, for example, it nixed the fourth-generation iPad while keeping the iPad 2 around as the entry-level tablet. Now Apple has killed the ...

... ». * Housing starts fall 0.2 percent in February. * Permits rise 7.7 percent, but single permits fall. * Consumer price index up 0.1 percent, but food prices jump. By Lucia Mutikani. WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) - U.S. consumer inflation was muted in ...

FRANK Lowy believes the stench surrounding the bidding process for the 2022 World Cup is “not going to go away”. The Football Federation Australia chairman and Westfield boss made the claim yesterday following revelations in an English newspaper that ...

Oscar Pistorius' lawyers were rebuked in court today for ridiculing a police witness under cross-examination. Judge Thokozile Masipa upheld an objection by Gerrie Nel, the State prosecutor, but it didn't stop the athlete's legal team exposing gross ...

RIPPLES of gravity left over from the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago have been detected for the first time by scientists, bolstering theories the universe underwent a furious rate of inflation in its first trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second. The discovery ...

LONDON -- The Rolling Stones have cancelled the first date on their Australian tour after the death of fashion designer L'Wren Scott, Mick Jagger's girlfriend. The designer, whose company was heavily in debt, was found dead in her New York apartment ...

Mick Jagger's daughter Georgia May was today seen making her way through Sydney Airport as she prepared to fly out to New York. The 22-year-old model has flown to the States in order to be with her family following the death of her father's partner L'Wren ...

Police photographs of the blood-spattered scene where Oscar Pistorius shot his girlfriend show that evidence was moved by officers in the hours following her death, a court heard today. Warrant Officer Bennie van Staden took hundreds of photos of the scene ...

A court in Cairo sentenced a police officer to 10 years in jail Tuesday for his part in the deaths of 37 Islamists last year. Lieutenant Col Amr Farouk was jailed for his role in the asphyxiation deaths of members of the Muslim Brotherhood as well as their ...

London: Space-time ripples which were sent out in the first second of the Big Bang nearly 14 billion years ago have been picked up by Harvard scientists for the first time. Astrophysicists have been hunting for “primordial gravitational waves” since they were ...