A Spanish judge is seeking the arrest of China's former president and premier over eight-year-old accusations of genocide in Tibet. High court judge Ismael Moreno asked Interpol to issue orders for the detention of former Chinese president Jiang Zemin, ...

CALGARY – Alberta's premier apologized Monday for the $45,000 it cost to go to Nelson Mandela's funeral in South Africa, but said she is not willing to repay the money. Alison Redford says the amount caught her off guard, but the trip still falls under ...

New research shows children's caffeine intake hasn't changed much in recent years. 73 percent of children consume caffeine daily from food and drinks, according to a new study published in Pediatrics. But the sources of caffeine that children are drinking ...

Australia's last remaining global automotive manufacturer, Toyota, has announced that it will cease production in 2017. The company blamed the high Australian dollar and a fiercely competitive market for the decision. Nearly 2500 jobs will be lost in the ...

VATICAN CITY -- It was the quietest of announcements that had the effect of a thunder-clap on the Catholic world: A year ago Tuesday, Pope Benedict XVI said in a voice so soft that cardinals strained to hear (and in a Latin not all could easily follow) that he ...

Cars line up at the border to Switzerland in Lottstetten, Germany. (Steffen Schmidt/European Pressphoto Agency). This post is written by Alexandre Afonso, a lecturer in the department of political economy at Kings College London, where he specializes in ...

Move to impose limits on EU immigrants triggers concern across 28-nation bloc and a potential review of relations. Last updated: 10 Feb 2014 16:18. Email Article. Print Article. Share article. Send Feedback. Electoral poster for the "Stop Mass Immigration" ...

One of the great smartphone soap operas of our time reached a bizarre climax over the weekend when Vietnamese developer Dong Nguyen removed Flappy Bird, then the world's most popular free app, from both the Google Google Play store and Apple's ...

JERUSALEM (AFP) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with three of his top ministers to discuss ways to deal with the threat of economic boycotts against Israel, media reported Monday. The meeting on Sunday night was attended by Foreign ...

UN and Arab League Special Envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi is to meet representatives of the warring sides in Syria separately for the first few days of a second round of talks that began yesterday, after the breaking of a local ceasefire set back peace efforts.

The U.K. bank hastily announced its profit before tax figures for 2013 on Monday along with an adjusted measure a day before schedule, after an apparent early disclosure in the Financial Times. That followed weekend news that details relating to thousands ...

Sometimes, it seems, having a good smartphone just isn't good enough. HTC said Monday that it will return its focus to the low end of the smartphone market, adding to evidence that all is not well in the premium smartphone market. For consumers looking at ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Saying it needed to prevent inbreeding, the Copenhagen Zoo killed a 2-year-old giraffe and fed its remains to lions as visitors watched, ignoring a petition signed by thousands and offers from other zoos and a private individual to ...

Politician Julius Malema's attempt to postpone a sequestration application by the South African Revenue Service (Sars) is an abuse of process, the North Gauteng High Court ruled on Monday. The Pretoria-based court then placed the Economic Freedom ...

Addis Ababa — A new round of peace talks between South Sudan's government and rebels aimed at ending a nearly two-month-old conflict in the world's youngest nation has been postponed, officials said Monday. The talks, which were due to open in ...

Flappy Bird, the massively addictive mobile game, took the world by storm before its creator removed it from the Internet over the weekend. What's left is millions of users trying to keep that damn bird from hitting those damn pipes for hours at a time. But what if ...

Euthanasia is intrinsic to the good work that many zoos do, and I respect the Copenhagen team's decision. Still, this is terrible PR for zoos, and will have repercussions. Share · Tweet this. Email. Marius the giraffe is pictured in Copenhagen Zoo. Marius the ...

Actor Shia LaBeouf hit the Berlin Film Festival in memorable style Sunday, first walking out of a press conference for the film Nymphomaniac Volume I and then wearing a paper bag over his head at the red carpet premiere. The actor posed for photographers ...

Gays and lesbians in Kenya have joined a global effort to protest against an anti-homosexuality bill passed by Uganda's parliament and now in the hands of the country's president. Several dozen gays, lesbians and supporters demonstrated in front of ...

BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - At least 50 people in Burundi have died due to torrential rains and landslides, officials in the central African country said on Monday, and they warned the death toll is likely to rise. The rains, which started on Sunday night and caused ...