Facebook may have agreed to pay up to $19bn for messaging app WhatsApp, but that company's rivals may benefit from an influx of new users as a result. One, Telegram Messenger, is already feeling the impact. “4.95 million people signed up for Telegram ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi said on Monday the government is to resign. "Today the cabinet took a decision to offer its resignation to the president of the republic," Beblawi said in a televised statement. He gave no clear ...

After narrow escapes from the military, law enforcement and rivals over 13 years on the run, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is back in Mexican custody. Now, what is likely to be a lengthy and complicated legal process to decide which country gets to try him first ...

Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest known Holocaust survivor and the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary, has died in London aged 110, her family announced. Herz-Sommer, originally from Prague in what is now the Czech Republic, spent two ...

Sony's new Xperia Z2 Tablet is a thin, light and waterproof premium Android tablet aimed squarely at Apple's iPad Air. Sony is bucking the trend of budget-focused 7in-Android tablets, like the Tesco Hudl and the Google Nexus 7, with a new full-size 10in ...

People gather to commemorate the victims of the recent clashes in Kiev in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odessa on Sunday. Photo: Reuters. Ukraine's interim government said the country needs $35 billion of aid to avoid default as it issued a warrant for ...

(CNN) -- A mysterious polio-like illness has been found in five children in California, researchers said. The discovery is alarming because polio, a contagious disease that sometimes caused paralysis, was wiped out in the United States in 1950s after a ...

Sony's new Xperia Z2 Android waterproof smartphone challenges Samsung's Galaxy S5 with a 5.2in screen and 4K video capture. Replacing the Xperia Z1, which was released just five months ago, the Xperia Z2 fits a larger screen, shaves 0.3mm from its ...

Sydney, Feb. 24 (ANI): Oscar Pistorius was allegedly watching porn on his mobile phone the night his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was shot at his home. Documents leaked to the South African Times reveal that Pistorius's mobile phone was retrieved ...

elop-wmc Stephen Elop onstage at MWC. Image: Liam Tung/ZDNet.com. Three years after ditching Symbian for Windows Phone, and mere months before being absorbed into the Microsoft empire, Nokia has released its first Android mobile phones.

Meerut: At least six persons, including a police officer, have been attacked and injured by a leopard which strayed into the city sending shivers down the spine of people and prompting authorities to sound a high alert and order closure of schools, colleges and ...

At least six persons, including a police officer, have been attacked and injured by a leopard which strayed into the city sending shivers down the spine of people and prompting authorities to sound a high alert and order closure of schools, colleges and market.

Nokia has officially launched its first Android handsets – the much-rumoured Nokia X, the X+ and XL - at an event in Barcelona. The X and X+are both entry-level devices with 4-inch screens, while the XL is larger at 5-inches. The X is available now for 89 ...

That was quick! Sony Mobile has announced a successor to its popular Z1 smartphone at Mobile World Congress 2014. The Japanese giant's new phone features a slightly larger 5.2-inch full HD display, 20.7MP camera and a new Snapdragon 801 ...

Joaquin Guzman (centre) is escorted by soldiers during a presentation at the Navy's airstrip in Mexico City. Picture: Edgard Garrido. Washington - US authorities announced plans to seek the extradition of Mexico's most powerful drug lord after his capture in a ...

Venezuela's president has called for crisis talks in an attempt to defuse weeks of often deadly anti-government protests that have brought the biggest challenge yet to his regime. At least 10 people have been killed and scores wounded in daily ...

Ukraine's acting interior minister issued an arrest warrant for embattled President Viktor Yanukovych, the Associated Press reported Monday. The warrant issued for Yanukovych and several other officials was for the "mass killing of civilians," Interior Minister ...

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is set to sign into law a controversial new bill under which homosexuals could be given long prison terms. He wants to approve the law before foreign media to assert "Uganda's independence in the face of Western ...

A leopard that has escaped into Meerut has injured at least seven people, including a police official, and terrified the town. The city is on high alert since late Sunday night after the leopard, who was trapped in a room of the cantonment hospital, escaped ...

Despite international pressure and rights groups condemneding it, President Yoweri Museveni is expected to sign a controversial anti-gay Bill. Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni. (Reuters). Uganda's president is expected to sign a controversial anti-gay ...