AN Iranian judge has summoned Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg to answer allegations that his company's apps have breached people's privacy, reports say. A series of rows over internet access have in recent months underscored ...

AN Iranian judge has summoned Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg to answer allegations that his company's apps have breached people's privacy, reports say. A series of rows over internet access have in recent months underscored ...

Apple's five-day Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) was expected to showcase the tech giant's interest in the wearable tech space but it looks like the home automation market might also be in the iPhone maker's sights. According to the Financial ...

Apple's five-day Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) was expected to showcase the tech giant's interest in the wearable tech space but it looks like the home automation market might also be in the iPhone maker's sights. According to the Financial ...

Tripoli (AFP) - An elite Libyan unit joined a renegade general to battle Islamists in the east as rising lawlessness in the nation's two largest cities edges it closer to civil war. The government posted an open letter on its website suggesting that the General ...

Tripoli (AFP) - An elite Libyan unit joined a renegade general to battle Islamists in the east as rising lawlessness in the nation's two largest cities edges it closer to civil war. The government posted an open letter on its website suggesting that the General ...

The chief of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization said that he hadn't observed a reduction in the Russian troops massed near Ukraine, despite the announcement of a withdrawal by Russian President Vladimir Putin. "Unfortunately, I have to say that we ...

APPLE and Google have agreed to drop all lawsuits between them, setting aside one of the many issues that divide the two technology giants controlling the smartphone world. The truce covers Apple's patent litigation with Google's Motorola unit. Motorola ...

OINT of no return” has been reached in the long-term collapse of glaciers on the west of Antarctica, according to two new reports. Two papers published this week claim instability of the West Antarctic ice sheet could have a big impact on sea level rises during ...

UKRAINE'S armed forces are on “full combat alert” against a possible Russian invasion, as Kiev admits it's “helpless” to prevent pro-Kremlin insurgents tightening their grip on the increasingly chaotic east of the country. Rebels stormed the regional police ...

WHILE the buzz on 9to5Mac on Monday was that Apple would bump up the processors in its popular MacBook Air laptops, the news today is that the minor spec adjustment comes with a $100 price drop across the board. In the US, the 11-inch MacBook Air ...

WASHINGTON'S deadline for reaching a Middle East peace deal arrived yesterday with no breakthrough and with US Secretary of State John Kerry mired in a row over allegations he said Israel risked becoming an “apartheid state”. After more than a year of ...

THREE Medecins Sans Frontieres workers have been killed in the Central African Republic, a spokesman for the global aid group says. Press officer Tim Shenk said on Sunday that the aid workers were killed on Saturday in Nanga Boguila in the ...

HE is one of Hollywood's most eligible bachelors and its most notorious serial monogamist having vowed 20 years ago that he would never marry again. However, George Clooney, the Oscar-winning actor, now appears to be setting aside his playboy ways ...

UKRAINE has relaunched military operations against pro-Kremlin separatists, hours after US Vice President Joe Biden ended a two-day visit to Kiev in which he warned Russia over its actions in the former Soviet republic. The US Defence Department at the ...

AN expert witness on Oscar Pistorius's defence team has contradicted part of the athlete's testimony — in effect, bolstering the prosecution's claims that the runner lied about the night he shot Reeva Steenkamp. Roger Dixon, a former police forensics officer, ...

SUSPECTED Muslim extremists have kidnapped about 100 girls from a school in north-eastern Nigeria, less than a day after militants bombed a bus station and killed 75 people in the capital - a surge of violence that raised new doubts about the military's ...

SUSPECTED Muslim extremists have kidnapped about 100 girls from a school in north-eastern Nigeria, less than a day after militants bombed a bus station and killed 75 people in the capital - a surge of violence that raised new doubts about the military's ...

SAMSUNG will add two safeguards to its latest smartphone in an effort to deter rampant theft of the mobile devices, after a series of violent deaths. The world's largest mobile-phone maker said users will be able to activate for free its “Find My Mobile” and ...

LAST-ditch talks between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators on salvaging a teetering, US-brokered peace process have ended without a breakthrough, Palestinian sources say. “The crisis continues. During the whole meeting, the Israelis threatened the ...