The Standard & Poor's 500 Index fell the most in three months in New York, while US Treasuries rallied with gold as demand for haven assets rose amid escalating tension in Ukraine and the Middle East. The crisis in Ukraine escalated after a Malaysian ...

LONDON- Ajinkya Rahane led India's fight back with a superb hundred after they collapsed on the first day of the second Test against England at Lord's on Thursday. India, after losing the toss on a seaming pitch, were in dire straits at 7-145. But thanks to ...

Is News Corp heading for a future without the Murdochs? Maiden: $US80b Time Warner bid is vintage Murdoch · Bid boosts Carey's prospects as Murdoch sons jockey for position · Rupert Murdoch's $US80b Time Warner bid spurned. Rupert Murdoch has ...

Rome: Massimiliano Allegri was appointed the new manager of Italian soccer champions Juventus on Wednesday less than 24 hours after Antonio Conte quit the post. Allegri has been out of work since his sacking by AC Milan in January. The 47-year-old led ...

The supply cupboard is almost bare at Gaza's Shifa Hospital. There's rarely a full complement of anything, not needles, breathing tubes, surgical thread nor sterile dressings. There is no guaranteed source of anaesthetics, antibiotics, intravenous fluids, cancer ...

The Espirito Santo saga is giving believers in the end of the euro-zone crisis cause for pause. Although a return to the panic days of the crisis may be unlikely, the case, involving the inability of a parent company of a bank in Portugal to make some short-term ...

Jerusalem: Israel intensified its bombardment of Gaza, launching air and naval strikes up and down the besieged coastal strip that medical officials say killed 25 and wounded more than 140, while militants from Gaza fired a barrage of rockets at cities in Israel, ...

Jakarta: On the streets of Jakarta on presidential election day, it's either Prabowo Subianto's toughness, or Joko Widodo as the man of the people that Indonesians are voting for. “Jokowi is for the people, a leader who is born from the people and he's for the ...

The Pulse Live: Judith Ireland blogs live from Parliament · Sri Lankan asylum seekers secure temporary reprieve. Immigration Minister Scott Morrison's return of 41 Sri Lankan asylum seekers to their country of origin has attracted a flood of attention from ...

The mayhem created by Nick Kyrgios the previous evening was continued in brutal fashion by Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov on Wednesday as he annihilated defending Wimbledon champion Andy Murray. With the dust still settling on 19-year-old Kyrgios's ...

Jerusalem: The abduction and suspected revenge killing of a Palestinian youth sparked intense clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces in East Jerusalem, raising the spectre of wider violence two days after three kidnapped Israeli ...

Jerusalem: The abduction and suspected revenge killing of a Palestinian youth sparked intense clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces in East Jerusalem, raising the spectre of wider violence two days after three kidnapped Israeli ...

Germany 2 Algeria 1. Winner: Mesut Oezil of Germany scores his team's second goal. Photo: Getty Images. Andre Schurrle and Mesut Ozil struck in extra time to earn Germany a 2-1 win over Algeria in a pulsating last 16 clash in Porto Alegre and a ...

Baghdad: Iraqi troops backed by helicopter gunships launched a major assault on Tikrit in an attempt to regain control of the northern city from Sunni insurgents who have been holding it since June 11. Military officials – keen to portray the Iraqi Army as on the ...

Kiev: Ukraine has signed a landmark trade deal to bind itself to the European Union, a monumental step that came in defiance of months of Russian efforts to block the country from turning westward. The agreement will have “serious consequences” for ...

Baghdad: Along Iraq's constantly shifting frontline, where its military has retreated in the face of a furious assault from Sunni insurgents, there is little buffer between civilians and the militants' advance. Villages of ethnic minorities are targeted and shelled ...

Baghdad: Along Iraq's constantly shifting frontline, where its military has retreated in the face of a furious assault from Sunni insurgents, there is little buffer between civilians and the militants' advance. Villages of ethnic minorities are targeted and shelled ...

Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki rejects calls for unity government. Baghdad: Iraq's parliament will meet next week to begin the process of forming a new government, officials said, as Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki blamed the United States for his army's inability to stop ...

The Ghana Football Association have suspended star players Kevin-Prince Boateng and Sulley Muntari for misconduct, and said the players will not compete in the Black Stars match against Portugal today at the World Cup in Brazil. Boateng used "vulgar" ...

TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (M) General (157 minutes). Something strange has happened to blockbuster director Michael Bay since the 1990s, when he made his name with Bad Boys and Armageddon, overblown action movies that still ...