In light of the latest global surveillance leaks on Thursday by former U.S. government contractor Edward Snowden, scanners at U.S. airports that catalog you in full birthday-suit glory seem somewhat tame. The latest details published in The Guardian reveal ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Oscar Pistorius prosecutors say they have secured a meeting with officials from cellphone maker Apple to access potential evidence on the athlete's iPhone. Pistorius has claimed he forgot the password on the cellphone, one of a ...

Those "Nutrition Facts" labels that are plastered on nearly every food package found in grocery stores are getting a new look from American lawmakers. Calories would be in larger, bolder type, and consumers for the first time would know whether foods have ...

Mogadishu: Somalia's Shebab said it had carried out a car bombing that killed at least seven people in the capital Mogadishu Thursday, targeting security forces at a cafe close to the intelligence headquarters.

DOHA: It's been two months since the Al Jazeera's journalists were arrested by Egyptian government. Despite protests, appeals and campaigns from the journalist community, global human rights organizations and the UN itself, Egyptian government has not ...

Israeli forces are using excessive and reckless force in the occupied West Bank, Amnesty International says. More than 40 Palestinians were killed in the past three years and the rate of killings rose significantly in 2013, a report by the human rights group says ...

Director, writer and cast member Seth Rogen waves at the premiere of "This Is the End" at the Regency Village Theatre in Los Angeles, California June 3, 2013. The movie opens in the U.S. on June 12. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni (UNITED STATES - Tags: ...

Google Maps users can now virtually trek across the frozen tundra outside Churchill, Man., and spy on the local residents, who weren't shy about posing for the cameras. Known as the "Polar Bear Capital of the World," Google visited Churchill with the ...

Didier Drogba is looking forward to a fairytale return to Stamford Bridge next month and it may provide the latest chapter to a new comic book which was been written about his career. The Ivory Coast international is probably yearning for more of a 'Roy of the ...

Ukraine's parliament has approved Arseniy Yatsenyuk as the country's new prime minister. The vote was held Thursday amid the sharp rise in tensions in the southern Crime region, where gunmen seized local government buildings and raised a Russian flag.

Last Updated: Thursday, February 27, 2014, 19:00. Kiev: Ukraine's parliament on Thursday approved the nomination of pro-EU Arseniy Yatsenyuk as the crisis-hit country's new prime minister until presidential polls are held in May. Yatsenyuk was one of the ...

Better huddle up, because the galaxy just got crowded. NASA has announced the discovery of 715 new planets - the biggest ever batch to be unveiled at once. The artist's concept depicts Kepler-62f, a super-Earth-size planet in ...

(CNN) -- The leader of the group tasked with removing chemical weapons from Syria met with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem Thursday in Damascus to discuss the progress, the state-run SANA news agency said. The meeting comes a day after the ...

Seth Rogen is the founder of an Alzheimer's charity called Hilarity for Charity and on Wednesday he talked to the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations on the toll the disease has taken on his own family, specifically his mother-in-law. “The situation is so ...

Somali government soldiers drive past the scene of a suicide car bomb attack next to a tea shop in the suburbs of capital Mogadishu. Picture: Feisal Omar. Mogadishu - Somalia's al-Shabaab said it had carried out a car bombing that killed at least seven ...

THE one thing I can say that is in any way complimentary about Alan Joyce is that he possesses a hide so thick it is beyond belief. As I listened to his words in yesterday's press conference, I felt profoundly sad. Here was the chief executive of a great ...

LONDON (AP) — Britain is starting a public consultation on rules allowing scientists to create embryos using DNA from three people — a man and two women — to prevent mothers from passing on potentially fatal genetic diseases. Britain's department of ...

SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine — As officials in Kiev move to contain unrest in the Crimea and others fret over divisions in Ukraine, there's still no consensus whether the threat of Ukraine's dissolution is real or overstated. While Ukrainians in the west of the country ...

Seth Rogen has appeared in front of the US Senate to campaign about Alzheimer's disease and even threw in a marijuana joke. The This Is The End star, 31, delivered a touching speech at Capitol Hill about his mother-in-law, Adele Miller, who is suffering ...

If you thought Snapchat's self-destructing pictures were cool, wait till you get a load of this. US company Boeing has unveiled a new smartphone that appears to come straight from a James Bond spy movie. In addition to encrypting your communication over ...