BENGHAZI, Libya, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni and his cabinet resigned on Thursday to pave the way to forming a new government after parliamentary elections in June, a government statement said. The North African oil producer is ...

Nouri al-Maliki's fitful departure from Iraq's premiership recalled many other cliffhanger exits by unpopular political leaders. His leaving did not come a moment too soon for the many Iraqis who have laid all of the country's current troubles at his doorstep. Maliki ...

When Tim Cook takes to the stage at Cupertino's Flint Center on 9 September to announce the new iPhone, it will be 30 years since Steve Jobs announced the first Mac at the same venue. Apple is returning to where, folklore claims, their founder started a ...

The hunt for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 has been narrowed to the southern region of the previous search zone after a new analysis of satellite phone data. A failed attempt at a satellite phone call from the jet 'suggests ... the aircraft might have ...

So much anguish, so much bloodshed, and we're back to a basic truth: Hamas is an utterly nihilistic force that values its maddened hatred of the Jewish state far more than it does the lives of the Gazan people. And in its anti-Semitic fervor, the terrorist ...

NO ONE would ever suggest that operating an airline is easy. The costs are vast and many and the scope for revenue is virtually limited to paying passengers. Margins are razor thin and the environment is fiercely competitive. Certainly Virgin founder Sir ...

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Thursday unveiled what it said was the first smartwatch capable of making and receiving calls without a mobile phone nearby, in the South Korean firm's latest effort to find a new growth driver. The world's biggest smartphone ...

The Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled the NPA must hand over the Zuma spy tapes to the DA. President Jacob Zuma addresses the Youth during National Youth Day Commemoration held at Madadeni,Newcastle. President Jacob Zuma. Picture: GCIS.

Four hundred and eighty Nigerian soldiers who fled into the Cameroon following a heavy battle with the Boko Haram insurgents have explained that they took the action because of inadequate weapons at their disposal. A junior officer, who acted as proxy of ...

RUSSIA is now “directly involved” in fighting in Ukraine, the US ambassador in Kiev has said. “An increasing number of Russian troops are intervening directly in fighting in Ukrainian territory,” Geoffrey Pyatt wrote on Twitter, on Thursday, adding that Moscow ...

By unanimous vote today the UN Security Council decided to take action again those who threaten Libya's stability and democratic progress. The resolution, which came following a report by the UN Support Mission in Libya's outgoing head, Tarek Mitri, ...

LAS VEGAS — The death of an Arizona firearms instructor by a 9-year-old girl who was firing a fully automatic Uzi displayed a tragic side of what has become a hot industry in the U.S.: gun tourism. With gun laws keeping high-powered weapons out of reach ...

SYDNEY - A Sydney neurosurgeon jailed after two prostitutes died following cocaine-fuelled sex sessions at his home has been deported to his native Malaysia, authorities said Thursday. A file photo shows the Sydney Harbour Bridge stretching over the city ...