The company was not the first to create a digital music player when it introduced the iPod 13 years ago. But the device, with its click wheel and slick integration with the iTunes software that ran on a computer, took digital music into the mainstream. Nor will ...

Serena Williams counts Caroline Wozniacki as a close personal friend yet there was no room for sentiment last night as the American won her 18th grand-slam singles title with a typically dominant display. Williams who had endured a miserable season in the ...

JACK the Ripper was a Polish hairdresser called Aaron Kosminski, according to an author who claims to have identified the Victorian serial killer using DNA evidence from a 130-year-old shawl. Kosminski, a 23-year-old immigrant, lived in the East End of ...

I want to be Joan Rivers when I die. No, really I do. I want 1,000 of my nearest and dearest, (out of the millions who are mourning) to show up. I want the invited thousand to stop and get their names checked off a list by good-looking people with clipboards.

The mystery surrounding Britain's most notorious serial killer 'Jack the Ripper' has finally been solved this week, after 'conclusive DNA evidence' revealed him to be Polish immigrant Aaron Kosminski, a hairdresser living in Whitechapel. The startling ...

Palestinian president threatens to break off unity deal if Hamas does not allow new government to operate in Gaza Strip. Last updated: 07 Sep 2014 23:19. Email Article. Print Article. Share article. Send Feedback. Mahmoud Abbas has threatened to break off ...

David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Gordon Brown will join forces this week to promise Scotland more powers from London if voters choose to stay in the UK. A cross-party plan for increased control over tax, welfare and job creation in Edinburgh would be ...

Beyonce posted a very athletic pic of herself to Instagram with the following caption, "Thank y'all so much for my birthday wishes ! 33!!!!!," she captioned the photo." The singer and her husband Jay Z, enjoy a relaxing afternoon in Portofino, Italy yesterday ...

Beyonce posted a very athletic pic of herself to Instagram with the following caption, "Thank y'all so much for my birthday wishes ! 33!!!!!," she captioned the photo." The singer and her husband Jay Z, enjoy a relaxing afternoon in Portofino, Italy yesterday ...

President Barack Obama will try to convince a war-weary American public this week that he can build a broad international coalition to defeat Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria. “We're going to need Sunni states to step up, not just Saudi Arabia, our ...

A new vaccine temporarily shielded lab monkeys from Ebola, and a booster jab provided lasting protection, according to a study that has endorsed approval for tests on humans. A single shot of the vaccine, based on a cold virus that affects chimps, gave ...

Arab states agreed Sunday to take the "necessary measures" and were prepared to cooperate internationally to confront Islamic State militants, Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi said. At the start of a foreign ministers' meeting in Cairo, Arabi had called for a ...

PORTLAND, Jamaica -- The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has decided to suspend the search for the crashed US plane at 4:00 pm today Sunday, September 7, if nothing is sighted or recovered by then. Assets from both the JDF Coast Guard and the JDF Air ...

This undated photo made available by the Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, shows the Ebola virus viewed through an electron microscope. The World Health Organization on Friday, Aug. 8, 2014 declared the Ebola outbreak in West ...

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has threatened to break off a unity agreement with Hamas if the Islamist movement does not allow the government to operate properly in the Gaza Strip. And prime minister ...

Houses are reduced to ruin just north of the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Sunday... ...After renewed shelling appears to break a ceasefire—between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists—that was barely two days old. Both sides ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida -- There will be a Full Moon on the night of September 8, 2014 - but not just any Full Moon - it is a Super Moon that is also known as a a full Harvest Moon. The Moon will be technically 99.9% full at 1:24 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Japan's Kei Nishikori and Croatia's Marin Cilic rocked the tennis world with stunning back-to-back U.S. Open semi-final upsets on Saturday, sending two all-time greats Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic out of Flushing Meadows.

Maryam Al Khawaja was expected to stand trial yesterday for allegedly attacking a lieutenant and a policewoman at Bahrain International Airport last month. She was taken to the Public Prosecution for questioning yesterday, buta her lawyer Mohammed Al ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Rescue crews searching off Jamaica's coast Saturday said they could no longer see debris spotted earlier, stymieing efforts to solve the mystery surrounding a small plane carrying an Upstate New York couple that went on a ghostly ...