UNITED NATIONS (AP) The top U.N. envoy in Iraq says "Iraq can be saved" if political leaders reach across religious and sectarian lines to bring the country together, take military action against Sunni extremists who have captured large areas, and stick to the ...

CURITIBA, Brazil (AP) Ecuador coach Reinaldo Rueda is unlikely to meddle with his starting lineup for Friday's crucial Group E game against Honduras, saying his team is ready to bounce back from a last-minute loss to Switzerland in its World Cup opener.

Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen with Prime Minister John Key earlier today. Photo / Audrey Young. The chairwoman of the US Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen, said the New Zealand economy seemed to doing extremely well. She made her comments after ...

Israeli soldiers take part in the search for the three missing teenagers near the West Bank city of Hebron. Photo / AP. The search for three teenagers who disappeared last week plunged Israeli-Palestinian relations into a deepening crisis yesterday after ...

Israeli soldiers take part in the search for the three missing teenagers near the West Bank city of Hebron. Photo / AP. The search for three teenagers who disappeared last week plunged Israeli-Palestinian relations into a deepening crisis yesterday after ...

Israeli soldiers take part in the search for the three missing teenagers near the West Bank city of Hebron. Photo / AP. The search for three teenagers who disappeared last week plunged Israeli-Palestinian relations into a deepening crisis yesterday after ...

The former chief executive of ill-fated Kiwi Airlines says the disappearance of MH370 wasn't an accident. Commercial pilot and Hamilton City Councillor Ewan Wilson and Fairfax journalist Geoff Taylor have researched the events surrounding the ...

Apple Watch writer Mark Webster is in San Francisco for the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Apple senior vice president of Software Engineering Craig Federighi speaks at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.

BERLIN (AP) A German politician hoping for help from Angela Merkel during a television quiz show was left disappointed when the chancellor failed to take his call. Conservative lawmaker Wolfgang Bosbach used his phone-a-friend lifeline to ring his party's ...

A frame grab from a video released by the Taliban containing footage of a man believed to be Bowe Bergdahl. Photo / AP. The little mountain town of Hailey in the rural state of Idaho is readying a hero's welcome. Its single shopping street is lined with bright ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Google is starting to accept requests from Europeans who want to erase unflattering information from the results produced by the world's dominant search engine. The demands can be submitted on a Web page that Google opened late ...

Will Smith, center right, is embraced by reporter Vitalii Sediuk from the Ukrainian television channel 1+1. Photo/AP. He tried to kiss Will Smith in Moscow, attempted to steal Adele's spotlight at the Grammys, dove under America Ferrera's dress at Cannes and ...

A pro-Russian gunman changes his position near the airport, outside Donetsk, Ukraine. Photo / AP. Ukraine's vow to crush the bloody insurgency in the industrial east of the country suffered a major blow Thursday when pro-Russian rebels downed an army ...

Australian vessel Ocean Shield docks while being fitted with an autonomous underwater vehicle used in the search. Photo / AP. New doubts have been thrown into the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 with fears the massive air and sea ...

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) Ukrainians are casting ballots Sunday in a presidential election seen as essential for stabilizing the country rocked by a deadly uprising in the east, where pro-Russia rebels have vowed to block the ballot. The vote is held three months after ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) The African Union says ethnic Tuareg separatist rebels have signed a cease-fire deal after having pushed the Malian army out of Kidal. In a statement released late Friday, the African Union said that the agreement came following talks ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade is reviewing travel advice for Thailand, following reports of martial law in the politically turbulent country. A Ministry spokeswoman said the Thailand Military have said there was no coup, and that the caretaker ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade is reviewing travel advice for Thailand, following reports of martial law in the politically turbulent country. A Ministry spokeswoman said the Thailand Military have said there was no coup, and that the caretaker ...

WASHINGTON (AP) The indictment of five Chinese military officials on cyber espionage charges will intensify friction between Beijing and Washington. Those tensions have only been growing as China gets bolder in asserting its territorial claims in disputed ...

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) A psychiatrist called by Oscar Pistorius' defense lawyers at his murder trial has testified that she believes the celebrated double-amputee athlete has an "anxiety disorder." Dr. Merryll Vorster testified Monday that events during ...