MOGADISHU, Somalia — A car bomb exploded close to a convoy of United Nations vehicles near Mogadishu's international airport on Thursday, killing six Somalis on the street, officials said. Al-Qaida-linked militants claimed responsibility. A U.N. vehicle was ...

AMSTERDAM (AP) - Dutch police investigating the death of former health minister Els Borst - a key champion of euthanasia rights - say she was likely the victim of a crime. Borst's body was found in her garage by friends on Monday evening. In a statement ...

The Maldives has dropped to 108th place in the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Press Freedom Index for 2014, marking a decline in press freedom for the third consecutive year. The index reflects the degree of freedom that journalists, news organisations ...

LONDON—Thousands of homes remained without power Thursday morning as local services and the military continued to battle severe flooding and damage caused by one of the wettest winters England has seen in more than two centuries. The national ...

Scientists in the United States say they have taken an important step on a decades-old quest to harness nuclear fusion to generate nearly inexhaustible energy. For the first time, two nuclear fusion experiments carried out in California succeeded in producing ...

MOGADISHU, Feb 13 – At least six people were killed and many others wounded on Thursday in a bombing near the entrance of Mogadishu's heavily-guarded airport complex, Somali police said. “At least six people, most of them civilians, died in the car ...

Beijing: China's moon rover Yutu is awake after its troubled dormancy but experts are still trying to find out the cause of its abnormality, a spokesman for the country's lunar probe programme said Thursday. "Yutu has come back to life," Xinhua quoted ...

The wreckage of a bus after a bombing in Karachi Thursday that killed at least 12 police and wounded more than 40. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images. KARACHI, Pakistan—A roadside bomb killed at least 12 policemen in Pakistan's volatile southern port ...

BEIJING: China has restored communications with its space program´s troubled "Jade Rabbit" moon rover, but engineers are still working to fix its mechanical problems, state media said Thursday. The official Xinhua News Agency cited Pei Zhaoyu, the lunar ...

In a huge setback to China's ambitious space programme, its first lunar rover Yutu or the Jade Rabbit was declared dead after attempts to revive it failed, media reports said yesterday. The Jade Rabbit “could not be restored to full function”, BBC reported, citing ...

New York women and their doctors were left shaking their heads Wednesday, a day after the publication of an earthshaking study concluding that mammograms do not reduce a woman's chance of dying of breast cancer. Bucking two generations of ...

FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2013 file image taken by the on-board camera of the lunar probe Chang'e-3 and made off the screen of the Beijing Aerospace Control Center in Beijing. China's first moon rover "Yutu" - or Jade Rabbit - is on the lunar surface in the area ...

WASHINGTON: US scientists announced on Wednesday an important milestone in the costly, decades-old quest to develop fusion energy, which, if harnessed successfully, promises a nearly inexhaustible energy source for future generations. Fusion Energy ...

China's Lenovo Group Ltd said third-quarter profit jumped nearly a third, beating estimates, as the world's biggest maker of personal computers hoisted sales of smartphones in its drive to diversify out of the shrinking PC market. Lenovo on Thursday reported ...

Representatives of the Office of the Prosecutor and the Registry of the Court (file photo). Nairobi — Attorney General Githu Muigai has told the International Criminal Court (ICC) that the Kenyan Government cannot compel prosecution witnesses in the case ...

Israel's measure of press freedom climbed 17 slots over last year in a Reporters Without Borders report on Tuesday. The NGO's classification covered 180 countries, with Israel reaching slot 96. Related: Israel falls 20 places in World Press Freedom Index.

After eons of trying, you'd think that husband and wife, boyfriend and girlfriend would get relationships right. Luckily— through the hookups and breakups, marriages and divorces— there's a love that keeps them coming back. For 364 days a year, love ...

The Japanese automaker just recalled half of the Prium (Priui?) it has ever produced — some 700,000 — for a voluntary safety update of its software. As Toyota put it in carspeak Tuesday: The software's current settings could result in higher thermal stress in ...

Willow Fork Country Club Women's Groups raised $21,000 to be donated to the Houston Methodist West Hospital's Breast Care Center. The check was presented to the hospital Jan. 21, according to a hospital press release. The groups collected it through ...

LONDON (AFP) - Flood-hit Britain suffered a fresh battering on Wednesday from storms and high winds that caused power outages to nearly 150,000 homes, the cancellation of football matches and the death of one man. Gusts approaching 160 kilometres ...