Cap in hand: Craig Gordon has been recalled to the Scotland squad after just four games for Celtic. Photograph: Craig Williamson/SNS. Published on the 31 August 2014 00:26. Published 31/08/2014 00:26. Print this. 2 comments Have your say!

1. The Washington Post. No serious approach to [Islamic State] can focus only on Iraq, as the United States has done thus far. The extremists treat Iraq and Syria as one area of operations, and the United States must do the same. In that theatre, the United ...

image MASERU: Lesotho Prime Minister Tom Thabane on Saturday said he had fled for his life across the border to South Africa, accusing the military of seizing power in a coup and leaving the country in flux. Shortly after 3:00 am (0100 GMT) the army seized ...

A 39 year-old man from north London has been charged in connection with an assault on Respect MP George Galloway in West London. Galloway was posing for photographs on a street in Goldborne Road, Notting Hill on Friday when a man leapt on him ...

A novel drug produced by Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company Novartis could prove to be a radical treatment for patients with heart failure. The experimental medicine, currently classified as LCZ696, was found to cut the risk of cardiovascular deaths ...

MILAN (Reuters) - The six global powers will discuss ways to reach a comprehensive nuclear deal with Iran on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September, the European Union's foreign policy chief said on Saturday.

David Cameron and Nick Clegg are to meet over the weekend for intense talks on new measures to tackle the threat posed by Islamist extremists. The negotiations come after the UK's terror threat level was raised from "substantial" to "severe" in response to ...

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 30 (APP): The United Nations said on Friday that it has received assurances from credible sources that the 44 peacekeepers who were taken from their positions in the Golan Thursday are safe and in good health. Syrian refugees top 3 ...

New York: Quick! What exactly did President Barack Obama say from the White House briefing room about Syria, Iraq and Ukraine while dressed in the tan suit buzzed 'round the world? Precisely. If you get all your news from social media. Obama's summer ...

A Palestinian girl holds a rifle as fighters of Al-Quds brigades gather in Gaza City. (Wissam Nassar/The New York Times). Jerusalem: Only time will tell whether Israel will maintain the quiet it so desperately sought during 50 days of war with Palestinian ...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for Japan Saturday morning on his maiden bilateral visit outside the Indian subcontinent, which is expected to open new vistas in the bilateral ties and take the Strategic and Global Partnership to a higher level.

The "monumental" success of an Ebola drug trial stuns scientists searching for a cure to the deadly virus. 1:38am UK, Saturday 30 August 2014. This professor claimed that ZMapp had a 100% success rate on monkeys. Video: '100% Of Ebola Monkeys Given ...