Mark Zuckerberg and his Facebook team may not have wanted to employ Brian Acton, but they did want his mobile messaging service. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty. It turned out to be an expensive mistake for Mark Zuckerberg. A $19bn one to be precise.

Forget the moody "we're not bothered" about winning a Brit Award reactions, a la Arctic Monkeys - One Direction were enjoying every minute of their prize haul on Wednesday. Appearing in the winners' room to speak to journalists after they received their ...

Bumblebees provide $3bn (£1.8bn) worth of crop pollination annually in the US alone. Photograph: Philippe Huguen/AFP/Getty Images. Bumblebees appear to be contracting deadly diseases from their domesticated honeybee cousins, according to a study ...

VIENNA -- International negotiations on Iran's nuclear program wrapped up Thursday with few details released about the talks, but with signs of an ongoing thaw between Tehran and world powers. Tehran's top diplomat Mohammad Javad Zarif and the ...

Kiev — 1329 GMT: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has condemned threatened Western sanctions against Ukrainian officials as an "attempt at bullying". "The possibility of sanctions is nothing but an attempt at bullying," Lavrov says during a press ...

In what is being viewed as a landmark technology deal, social network Facebook Inc has acquired popular messaging app WhatsApp for a whopping $19 billion. Although Mark Zuckerburg has assured users that WhatsApp will continue to operate ...

European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif announced Thursday a schedule for the next round of Iranian nuclear talks. At a joint press conference, speaking about the nuclear talks between Iran ...

Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has issued a statement denying charges of corruption in connection with a controversial rice purchase scheme. Thailand's anti-corruption commission said on Tuesday that it would charge her for her role in the ...

96-year-old South Korean Kim Sung-yun, left, is reunited with family members in North Korea. Photograph: Yonhap/Reuters. Dozens of elderly North and South Koreans separated for six decades have been reunited during a rare period of detente between ...

The Brit Awards 2014 were celebrated at the O2 arena in London last night. Model Kate Moss accepted the award on behalf of David Bowie for Best British Male Solo Artist. Noel Gallagher joined her onstage. Photograph: Ian Gavan/Getty Images. Best of the ...

The president is delivering his reply to the debate on the State of the Nation Address. Eskom declares power emergency · Motsoeneng keeps his poker face · Arrests made after ritual murders · Emotional tribute for slain CT cop · Wouter Basson sentencing ...

Kate Moss accepts the Best Male Award for David Bowie at the BRIT Awards 2014 at 02 Arena on February 19, 2014 in London, England. Email · Print; Share. Facebook · Twitter · Tumblr · LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Reddit · Digg · Mixx · Delicious · Google+.

(NEW YORK) -- Google Fiber is devoted to making the Internet a hundred times faster than it is for most of the United States. On Feb. 19, Google announced plans to bring the upgrade to several cities spread across nine different metropolitan areas, including ...

Supporters of opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez are hit by police's water cannon during a protest against Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas. Picture: Carlos Garcia Rawlins. Caracas - Venezuelan police fired tear gas and buckshot to disperse ...

South Korean Lee Young-sil, right - 87, cries after meeting her North Korean sister Lee Jung-sil, 84, during their family reunion at the Mount Kumgang resort in North Korea. Picture: Lee Ji-eun/Yonhap. Related Stories. Ageing Koreans ready for big reunion.

Thailand's tourism industry has warned that it faces losing £1.6billion if the country's political turmoil and violent protests drag on for another six months. The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is forecasting that the number of foreign tourists visiting the ...

German prosecutors have arrested three elderly men on suspicion they served as guards at the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp. Also in this section. Earthquake reported in England · Japanese fishermen warn of omens after surge in numbers of giant squid ...

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Explosions rocked five polling stations in eastern Libya on Thursday as voters began electing a body to draft a new constitution, another step in the OPEC producer's rocky transition since Muammar Gaddafi fell in 2011. Nobody was ...

As it stands right now, Google plans to roll out their Google Fiber services to metropolitan areas in 3 cities amounting to about 4.5 million people. Those cities, Kansas City (MO & KS), Austin, Texas and Provo, Utah are all going to be getting Google Fiber, one ...

A very little time is left until the big launch, which will take place at Barcelona. Samsung Galaxy S5 will be released on February 24, and the news about this phone is flowing in this period, some from credible sources, and others from questionable areas of the ...