GENEVA (Reuters) - International mediator Lakhdar Brahimi scrambled to keep diplomacy alive on Wednesday, bringing forward to Thursday a meeting with senior U.S. and Russian officials backing opposing sides in Syria's war. Brahimi first met Russian ...

flappy bird online Various sites are now offering free versions of Flappy Bird online, taking advantage of the void left by the app being pulled from the iPhone and Android app stores. Photograph: REX. Flappy Bird might have been pulled from the app store but ...

SAN FRANCISCO—The president of France is scheduled to visit San Francisco on Wednesday to meet with Silicon Valley executives and entrepreneurs. President Francois Hollande will arrive in the Bay Area on Feb. 12, after a three-day state visit to ...

LOS ANGELES -- The praises of Shirley Temple are being sung by celebrities across Hollywood who remembered her as America's prolific little darling. For the fifth time in its history, the Chinese Theatre planned to dim the lights in its famous forecourt, which ...

Fall Out Boy have jumped on the Flappy Bird bandwagon with a their own spoof app called Fall Out Bird. Flappy Bird was taken down from online stores after its creator Dong Nguyen said it was too addictive. But for those suffering from withdrawal symptoms, ...

South African police fired rubber bullets on Wednesday at stone throwing supporters of the ruling ANC who tried to confront members of the opposition Democratic Alliance party as they marched in central Johannesburg, a Reuters witness said. Police, who ...

A study of mammograms spanning 25 years and thousands of patients has come to a startling conclusion: mammograms appear to be useless, at best. The New York Times reports that the study, published on Tuesday in the British Medical Journal, has ...

A PRE-DAWN attack on an army encampment guarding an oil pipeline in northern Iraq killed 15 soldiers yesterday as authorities grapple with almost daily attacks and running battles with militants. UNFRIENDLY FIRE: Men carrying children run out of a ...

CAIRO — Gunmen shot dead three policemen near the Suez canal city of Ismailia and seized their weapons, bringing to five the number of policemen killed in the last 24 hours in Egypt. Attacks on security force personnel have surged since the army ousted ...

KUALA LUMPUR: UMW Toyota Motor has launched a campaign to rectify a software in the Prius 1.8 variant which were manufactured from 2009 to 2013 and sold in Malaysia. It said on Wednesday the campaign covered 6,160 units of the Prius 1.8 variant ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday it would veto a U.N. resolution on humanitarian aid access in Syria in its current form, denouncing the draft as an effort to lay a foundation for military strikes against President Bashar al-Assad's government.

Coded in less than 24 hours and rushed to release, Fall Out Bird will be available “this week” to iOS and Android users, according to Fall Out Boy's Twitter account. “Rome wasn't built in a day, but this game was,” they wrote. “Coming ... as soon as it's ...

A court has dismissed the ANC's urgent protection order request against the Democratic Alliance's "real jobs" march. The DA says its march in downtown Johannesburg is for 'real jobs. (Oupa Nkosi, M&G). An urgent application by the ANC to secure a ...

It was the talk of the town that no one seemed to want to talk about, French President Francois Hollande's very public breakup from his first lady just weeks before President Barack Obama raised a glass to him at an elegant White House state dinner. "I don't ...

Oscar Pistorius has reportedly reached a settlement over an alleged assault case in 2009 when he was arrested and accused of causing an injury to a guest at a party at his house by slamming a door.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp denied on Wednesday it was omitting websites from its Bing search engine results for users outside China after a Chinese rights group said the U.S. firm was censoring material the government deems politically sensitive.

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — An Algerian military transport plane slammed into a mountain yesterday in the country's rugged eastern region, killing 77 people and leaving just one survivor, the defence ministry said. Air traffic controllers lost radio and radar ...

A fisherman who says he drifted at sea for more than a year has finally made it home to El Salvador, exhausted and speechless. Jose Salvador Alvarenga tried to address a media throng waiting at the airport, eager to fill in details about what many people ...

The United States on Tuesday welcomed the first formal meeting since 1949 between chief officials in charge of cross-Strait affairs from China's mainland and Taiwan. "We welcome the steps both sides of the Taiwan Strait have taken to reduce tensions and ...

There were no "freedom fries" or any other remembrances from strained Franco-American ties in the past. Instead, it was dry-aged beef and plenty of "bonhomie" as President Barack Obama gave a lavish welcome to French President François Hollande.