Iraqi troops battled to dislodge an al-Qaeda splinter group from the city of Tikrit on Monday after its leader was declared caliph of a new Islamic state in lands seized this month across a swath of Iraq and Syria. Alarming regional and world powers, the Islamic ...

News that Facebook has been toying with its users' emotions may shock some, but in fact it just highlights the kind of psychological exercise the social network engages in all the time. It's emerged hundreds of thousands of Facebookers have unwittingly been ...

Two police officers were killed Monday while trying to detonate bombs found outside the Egyptian Presidential Palace, the interior ministry said. More from KTUU. Justin Rose sees off Shawn Stefani at Congressional · Retrial for ex-newspaper editor Andy ...

Midfielder John Mikel Obi has played down Nigeria's bonus row and insisted it will not affect the team in Monday's last-16 game against France. The players boycotted training on Thursday, prompting Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan to give his ...

Published 30/06/2014|11:12. 0 Comments; Share. Michael Bay's Transformers: Age Of Extinction has stormed the box office in its opening weekend. Michael Bay has said critics love to hate Transformers: Age Of Extinction, but he doesn't care because they ...

CAIRO (AP) — Security officials say a homemade bomb has gone off near Egypt's presidential palace in Cairo, wounding three people. They said a police bomb squad was trying to defuse a similar device planted at a garden close to the palace's walls.

Oscar Pistorius's ability to move around on his stumps and maintain his balance has been called into question at his murder trial underway in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria. Pistorius's murder trial resumed this morning in the North Gauteng High ...

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal will head straight into his new Old Trafford role after the World Cup and his settling-in period has been made more straightforward after he bought a house in nearby Cheshire. While Van Gaal has been away at the ...

Keylor Navas says fearless Costa Rica can go on being World Cup world-beaters after victory against Greece put them in the last eight. The hero of the penalty shoot-out said: 'We left our fear at home - that is why we came through a group that had three ...

Eurostat, the commission's statistics bureau, said on Monday that headline inflation for the euro area was 0.5 per cent in June, the same as in May and in line with the lowest reading since the autumn of 2010.

Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- Emboldened by a weakened Iraqi government that is struggling to stop their murderous advance, the extremists of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria declared over the weekend that they have set up a caliphate spanning large areas of ...

A cameraman for Russia's state-owned Channel One television has been killed in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region. Anatoly Klyan was shot in the stomach after his film crew came under fire when they went to report near a pro-Kyiv military unit. A video ...

Algeria and Germany face off in the second round of the World Cup, with Joachim Low's side being tipped as massive favourites to progress into the quarter-finals. Die Mannschaft were hugely impressive in the group stages, but will not underestimate an ...

Fernando Santos has accused Greece of lacking organisation due to tiredness as they failed to beat Costa Rica before succumbing in the penalty shoot-out in their second-round match in Recife.

Fernando Santos has accused Greece of lacking organisation due to tiredness as they failed to beat Costa Rica before succumbing in the penalty shoot-out in their second-round match in Recife.

A screenshot of the KLM Twitter account shows a tweet that appeared shortly after the Netherlands defeated Mexico in the World Cup in Brazil on June 29, 2014. Picture: KLM Twitter account. Rio de Janeiro -. What was meant to be a joke turned into a PR ...

Following reports Facebook manipulated the feeds of almost 700,000 users, the site has issued a statement claiming it 'never met to upset anyone'. During one week in 2012, the social media giant edited feeds to highlight either positive or negative items, and ...

A report by mental health experts says South African runner Oscar Pistorius was not affected by a mental defect or mental illness when he fatally shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The athlete's murder trial resumed Monday after being on hold for a month ...

Nigeria's powerful offence will test France, which has only allowed two goals so far in the tournament. Last updated: 30 Jun 2014 08:36. Email Article. Print Article. Share article. Send Feedback. The game will be Nigeria's first in the World Cup knockout round ...

In a bid to further deepen ties with India, Australia is looking forward to welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he is expected to attend the G20 Summit in Brisbane. "We have invited Prime Minister Modi and we are very keen to have him here," newly ...