The French Government says Uganda should uphold its international commitments regarding the protection of human rights. This comes two days after President Yoweri Museveni signed the anti-homosexuality law that criminalizes same sex relations in ...

Hello all. Here are today's top stories. Ukraine's acting interior minister has said the elite Berkut police unit, blamed for the deaths of dozens of protesters, has been disbanded. Parliament will today renew efforts to form a government, having missed its own ...

Jerusalem: Four Hezbollah activists have been killed and weapons destroyed in an Israeli airstrike near Lebanon-Syria border, according to a media report on Wednesday. The Israeli assault targeted two trucks, one containing missiles and the other missile ...

FORTUNE -- Late Sunday night, a bitcoin blogger named Ryan Selkis published a "Crisis Strategy Draft" document that purported to show how Mt. Gox, one of the world's earliest and largest bitcoin exchanges, was insolvent (due, in large part, to a massive ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah will respond to an Israeli air strike that hit one of its bases on the border with Syria on Monday night, the Lebanese militant group said on Wednesday. "The new aggression is a blatant assault on Lebanon and its sovereignty and ...

Retired Pope Benedict XVI has denied speculation that he was pressured to resign, saying the decision was made by him and him alone. In a letter to La Stampa newspaper Benedict called speculation he had been forced from his post 'absurd' ahead of the ...

The Mobile World Congress is about to end tomorrow, but all the major announcements are in. So we thought we'd give you a behind the scenes look at what goes on in Barcelona during the extravaganza where the world celebrates the best in the mobile ...

JAMAICANS are becoming more conscious of climate change as their knowledge of the phenomenon and the risks it poses to the country increase. That is the feeling of chief technical officer in the Ministry of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change ...

The Berkut special police were blamed for violent attacks against demonstrators during the three months of antigovernment protests, which resulted in the deaths of dozens of protesters. Tweet. Follow @RFERL ...

Johannesburg - A man was found dangling from a pole in Robertsham, Joburg south, early on Wednesday morning after he attempted to steal electricity cables. City Power officials on the scene said he must have died instantly after getting a massive 380 kVa ...

Don't be fooled. When US President Barack Obama says America is preparing for the total withdrawal of all American forces from Afghanistan by the end of this year, what he really means is that he has already decided on the total withdrawal of all American ...

DETROIT -- After recalling approximately 778,000 Chevrolet Cobalts and Pontiac G5 earlier this month, General Motors has added four more models to that number because of similar, potentially dangerous problems with the ignition switches. GM is recalling ...

26 February 2014 at 13:09 by Lonwabo Miso - French President Francois Hollande heads to Nigeria on Thursday under pressure to extend his country's security role in Africa. 0 comments. 0 Comments. Share: Share via Facebook · Share via Twitter.

(CBSNews.com) - The battle against obesity is showing some recent progress in young children, according to a new study. But, the United States has the same weight problem it did about a decade ago. Researchers found the percentage of obese children ...

Manchester United's woeful 2-0 defeat at Olympiakos in the Champions League on Wednesday marked another painful record in a season of painful records for David Moyes - it was the first time ever in a European competition that United lost to a Greek team.

Pastor Scott Lively is an ex-junkie and alcoholic from Massachusetts, who lists his hobbies as the Bible, history and classic films. His other big pastime – depending on who you ask – is inciting hatred against gays in Uganda. Unless you move in US ...

Koreans from North and South can only meet at sporadic official reunions, where numbers are strictly limited. At each bittersweet gathering, family members ponder the historical forces that tore them apart. By Emily Rauhala / Seoul Feb. 26, 20140. Share.

SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Yonhap) -- Despite signs of warming inter-Korean ties, South Korea's defense minister on Wednesday pledged firm military readiness to counter any provocations by North Korea that he considers "unpredictable." Kim Kwan-jin made the ...

Cape Town - South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan may be forced to stick to budget targets in the face of credit downgrade threats and pressure on tax revenue, providing little support to the ruling party to woo voters before May 7 elections. Gordhan ...

President Barack Obama told Hamid Karzai on Tuesday he is now planning for a full US troop withdrawal because of the Afghan leader's repeated refusal to sign a security pact. But in a rare telephone call with President Karzai, Obama also held out the ...