As dawn broke over the city, demonstrators streamed to the square in the city's downtown Wanchai district ahead of an 8am flag-raising ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the founding of Communist China. PHOTOS. Pro-democracy protesters gather ...

Washington: The US military cannot bomb the Islamic State group into "obscurity," it cautioned on Tuesday, appealing for patience in its escalating attempts to defeat the jihadists in Syria and Iraq. "No one said this would be easy or quick, and no one should ...

Washington DC, Oct 01 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for India from Washington DC after concluding his five day US visit. Before leaving, Modi met his supporters present on the Andrews Air Force Base. Modi will be stopping at Frankfurt before ...

In a significant development, India and the US have committed to make joint and concerted efforts to dismantle terrorist safe havens, including four Pakistan-based groups Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad, the D-Company, and the Haqqani network, ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Afghanistan is the worst country to live in as an older person, an annual index on the wellbeing of the elderly showed on Wednesday. The Asian country was ranked bottom for the second consecutive year in ...

Tool around a bit on Microsoft's next-gen software platform and it becomes clear Redmond is going back to basics. 0shares. Terry Myerson and Windows 10 · VIEW ALL PHOTOS IN GALLERY. SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft introduced Windows 10 here on ...

It was exactly 10 years ago that I went on my first mission with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders, to Liberia, specifically Monrovia. It was a year after the end of the second Liberian civil war, which the locals had termed World War III.

Today eBay announced that it will spin PayPal off into a separate publicly traded company in 2015. Aside from being a major breakup, the move is a dramatic about-face for a company that, until very recently, had insisted its retail and payments operations ...

Francesco Totti felt Roma were unfortunate not to beat Manchester City as the veteran enjoyed a record-breaking Champions League night. The 38-year-old former Italy international produced a superb chipped finish in the 23rd minute to cancel out Sergio ...

Francesco Totti felt Roma were unfortunate not to beat Manchester City as the veteran enjoyed a record-breaking Champions League night. The 38-year-old former Italy international produced a superb chipped finish in the 23rd minute to cancel out Sergio ...

(Adds input from Vanity Fair, Instyle). By Piya Sinha-Roy. LOS ANGELES, Sept 30 (Reuters) - With the help of Oscar de la Renta, Stella McCartney, Giambattista Valli and Dolce & Gabbana, human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin vaulted into the top echelons of ...

(Adds input from Vanity Fair, Instyle). By Piya Sinha-Roy. LOS ANGELES, Sept 30 (Reuters) - With the help of Oscar de la Renta, Stella McCartney, Giambattista Valli and Dolce & Gabbana, human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin vaulted into the top echelons of ...

Hong Kong: With the humble umbrella already a potent symbol of Hong Kong's fight for democracy, there was a certain poetic quality in the moment when tens of thousands of demonstrators opened theirs up to the sky in unison, as thunder rolled and the ...

Women dressed in traditional Bavarian clothing attend the annual beer tasting prior to the 2014 Oktoberfest in Munich. Photographer: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images. In Germany, home of Oktoberfest and a five-century-old brewing law, beer ...

Women dressed in traditional Bavarian clothing attend the annual beer tasting prior to the 2014 Oktoberfest in Munich. Photographer: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images. In Germany, home of Oktoberfest and a five-century-old brewing law, beer ...

Women dressed in traditional Bavarian clothing attend the annual beer tasting prior to the 2014 Oktoberfest in Munich. Photographer: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images. In Germany, home of Oktoberfest and a five-century-old brewing law, beer ...

In Germany, home of Oktoberfest and a five-century-old brewing law, beer consumption has been on an unstoppable decline, prompting Europe's biggest producer of the beverage to turn to an unlikely place for help: the U.S.. Oliver Lemke has been making ...

As thousands of fans and the world's paparazzi lined the canals in Venice last weekend, there was clearly one star draw: Hollywood's most famously fanciable film star, George Clooney, was marrying at long, long last. But as the pictures of the state-like, ...

A mountain of concrete rubble and twisted girders blocks the downtown intersection where Israeli F-16 fighter jets struck Gaza City a month ago, toppling the 13-story Al-Basha office tower. Across town, Mosa Abuaser's family sleeps in a dusty white tent ...

Seven games, 18 goals scored and none conceded. Luis Enrique's reign as Barcelona boss had started so positively and it was his former team-mate, Laurent Blanc, who was under pressure ahead of this match but, on the night, the Spaniard's side failed ...