Democratic Progressive party leader Peter Mutharika (R) has been declared 'president-elect' by Malawi's electoral commission. Photograph: Amos Gumulira/AFP/Getty Images. Peter Mutharika, the brother of Malawi's former leader, was declared the winner of ...

President Obama, flanked by Attorney Holder Eric Holder (left) and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, speaks about a report from My Brother's Keeper, an initiative to expand opportunity for young men and boys of color.

President Obama, flanked by Attorney Holder Eric Holder (left) and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, speaks about a report from My Brother's Keeper, an initiative to expand opportunity for young men and boys of color.

The U.S. government's mild rebuke of the recent military coup in Thailand [“Army coup ousts Thai government,” front page, May 23] was as hollow as it was hypocritical. The Thai junta's justification for its actions was the same old refrain about the need to ...

This time, they out-spelled the spelling bee. For the first time since 1962, two students were declared co-champions of the Scripps National Spelling Bee after they exhausted the official word list before either could prevail. At the end of a grueling 21-round final ...

Suspected members of the Boko Haram Islamist group, which kidnapped 276 schoolgirls last month, gunned down a traditional Muslim emir in an attack on a convoy in northeastern Nigeria on Friday, the Borno state government said. The Emir of Gwoza, ...

Two weeks ago, Europe's highest court ruled that E.U. citizens have “the right to be forgotten” — in other, less poetic words, the right to request that search engines like Google remove unflattering or defamatory search results at an individual's request.

Police say three people have been arrested in connection with the gang-rape of two teens found hanging from a tree. Last updated: 30 May 2014 14:28. Email Article. Print Article. Share article. Send Feedback. Scores of students and rights activists took to the ...

By Crispin Dembassa-Kette and Serge Leger Kokpakpa. BANGUI (Reuters) - At least two people were shot dead on Friday by Burundian peacekeepers who clashed with protesters in the capital of Central African Republic, in a second day of violent ...

A glimpse into the future as billionaire technology entrepreneur Elon Musk unveils a sleek new spaceship in California His company, Space Exploration Technologies—or SpaceX—has designed the seven-seater Dragon V2. Musk says this version will be ...

The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe said today it had lost contact with a second four-member international team in restive eastern Ukraine. The Vienna-based security body said it had not heard from its team in the industrial region of ...

Nearly 300 cases of the respiratory disease have been reported this year. 'This is not the kind of record we want to break,' said CDC offcial Anne Schuchat. REUTERS. Friday, May 30, 2014, 9:37 AM. A; A; A. Share this URL ...

An example Music Block lets you see what's playing and control the playback straight from the homescreen. Ios8photoessay2_verge_medium_landscape. Each iOS Block has a visible icon, control zone for buttons, and the main content area for swiping and ...

The Emir of Gwoza, Alhaji IDrissa Timta is feared killed in an ambush attack on his convoy some few hours ago while traveling to Gombe for the burial of the late Emir of Gombe. He was driving in the same car with his counterpart, the Emir of Uba, Alhaji ...

Maleficent, the wicked fairy from "Sleeping Beauty" who condemns the infant Princess Aurora to die, is the protagonist of a new movie starring Angelina Jolie and an unlikely character to boast her own, $175-million, PG-rated fantasy, complete with tie-in Hot ...

Google says it is establishing a service that will enable Europeans to ask for online links relating to their personal life to be removed from search results. The world's biggest internet search engine is expecting a barrage of requests after the European Court of ...

Ukraine has promised to continue its offensive against pro-Russian militants despite the deadly loss of one of its helicopters. At least 12 soldiers were killed when rebels shot down the craft on Thursday on the outskirts of Slovyansk. The country's acting ...

Pics + vid Elon Musk has unveiled the manned rocket he hopes will win his upstart rocket startup SpaceX the contract to ferry 'nauts to and from the International Space Station – and set humanity on the path to Martian colonisation. Youtube Video. Musk lived ...

William Shakespeare made much of Richard III's spinal deformity, calling him a “bunch-backed toad” but a new study has shown the king was hardly affected by his condition. Scientists who carried out scans of the king's kinked spine found it had a "well ...

Google has launched a new service that allows users to ask for information about them to be removed in response to the recent 'right to be forgotten' ruling from the European court. The search giant introduced the online system after judges decided people ...