About a week ago, Google seemed to face a tense moment in the development of its high-profile Google Glass wearable computer. Call it Peak Glass Cynicism. Some of the device's earliest fans were questioning Google's devotion to the product. Bars were ...

Apple (AAPL) seems set on expanding its presence in television, with a report on the company's talks with Comcast in the Wall Street Journal serving as the latest evidence that Apple TV isn't the end of the company's ambitions. But the thing to take away from ...

Apple seems set on expanding its presence in television, with a report on the company's talks with Comcast in the Wall Street Journal serving as the latest evidence that Apple TV isn't the end of the company's ambitions. But the major thing to take away from ...

Dutch, German and British plans to sell one of the world's biggest uranium-enrichment company to private investors are troubling regulators in the Netherlands because of the deal's implications for nuclear security. “We were not entirely happy with the intent ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his popularity surging to a five-year high by making Crimea a part of Russia again after 60 years and says he won't be swayed by foreign retaliation. Photographer: Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images. Western sanctions are ...

The Israeli army killed two Palestinians in clashes overnight in the West Bank city of Jenin after soldiers shot dead a Hamas gunman wanted for shooting and bombing attacks. The Hamas militant was a “ticking bomb” receiving instructions from leaders of the ...

European stocks posted their biggest weekly gain since St. Valentine's Day as concern dissipated that the Ukraine crisis would lead to wide-ranging disruption to trade after a speech from Vladimir Putin. Bayerische Motoren Werke AG rallied 12 percent after ...

Apple Inc. (AAPL:US) is selling a new, cheaper version of the iPhone 5c with less memory in the U.K. and Europe. The latest iPhone 5c has 8 gigabytes and is priced at 429 pounds ($712) without a contract, compared with 469 pounds for the 16-gigabyte ...

A statue of Vladimir Lenin is seen at sunset in Lenin Square in downtown Simferopol, Ukraine, on March 12, 2014. Photographer: Filippo Monteforte/AFP via Getty Images. The tensions between Russia and the West, inflamed by the Kremlin's land grab for ...

Militants attacked an army detention center in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri in an attempt to free fellow Islamists who were held there, a military spokesman said. “The attack has been successfully repelled with heavy human casualty on the ...

Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes was fastest in a practice at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, as Formula One teams get used to new engines that may undo Red Bull's dominance. Hamilton posted a lap time of 1 minute, 29.6 seconds in Melbourne, 0.16 ...

Paralympian gold medalist Oscar Pistorius' looks on during the afternoon session of the fourth day of his trial for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on March 6, 2014. Photographer; Werner Beukes/AFP ...

Paralympian gold medalist Oscar Pistorius kept a gun next to his bed and carried one with him whenever he could, a former girlfriend testified at his murder trial. Pistorius fired his weapon through an open car sunroof after an incident in which a policeman ...

An Islamic court in northern Nigeria sentenced four men 15 lashes each after confessing to having gay sex four years ago. They were also fined 20,000 naira ($121), according to the Shariah court's ruling yesterday in Bauchi, about 250 miles (402 kilometers) ...

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A South African TV channel has apologized for broadcasting an image of a witness in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial after the woman requested that she not be shown. News channel eNCA says it used the picture of state ...

In recent comments about the $19 billion purchase of mobile messaging company WhatsApp, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said that people shouldn't expect any new flashy acquisitions in the near future. After spending that kind of money, ...

Apple (AAPL) said this morning that its chief financial officer, Peter Oppenheimer, will retire in September. He had taken a seat on the board of Goldman Sachs (GS) on Monday. Oppenheimer had no hand in shaping Apple's famous product design, but at one ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Gunmen stormed Pakistan's main court complex in Islamabad on Monday, cutting down fleeing lawyers before blowing themselves up in a rampage that killed 11 people. It was the worst terror attack in years in the capital, which has ...

The Austrian bank accounts of 18 Ukrainian citizens will be frozen at the request of the new government in Kiev, Austria's Foreign Ministry said. The unilateral step is a “precautionary measure” as long as sanctions are still being debated at European Union ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Oscar Pistorius prosecutors say they have secured a meeting with officials from cellphone maker Apple to access potential evidence on the athlete's iPhone. Pistorius has claimed he forgot the password on the cellphone, one of a ...