Uli Hoeness, the president of the European champion soccer club Bayern Munich, was convicted Thursday of tax evasion and sentenced to three and a half years in prison after a four-day trial that had consumed the country. The news even drowned out ...

A new vaginal gel has the potential to protect women from HIV, even if it is applied several hours after sex, animal research suggests. A new vaginal gel has the potential to protect women from HIV, even if it is applied several hours after sex, animal research ...

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Speaker John Boehner has invited Pope Francis to address a joint session of Congress. It is an open invitation, the speaker's office said, and it's not yet clear when he'll give the speech on Capitol Hill. Continue Reading ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he's called President Barack Obama to express his frustration over what he says is long-lasting damage caused by the U.S. government's surveillance programs. Posting on his Facebook page, ...

Women could soon have a new way to protect themselves from HIV, even after having sex with an infected partner. Scientists are a step closer to developing a gel that would stop the virus from infecting cells. Tests on monkeys show the gel works three hours ...

A new study published on Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine shows that scientists have created a HIV protection gel which could solve the dangers that walk hand in hand with unprotected sex. Although the research was carried out on ...

KANO, Nigeria: Gunmen in northwest Nigeria's Katsina state killed 69 people in attacks on four villages, a local lawmaker told AFP on Thursday, amid rising communal tension in the region. "So far, 69 bodies have been recovered from the attacks carried out ...

VATICAN CITY Pope Francis marked his one-year anniversary Thursday with a simple tweet: "Please pray for me." Francis' appeal echoed his gesture on that rainy night one year ago when he came out onto the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica and introduced ...

PRETORIA, South Africa - Oscar Pistorius vomited and sobbed in court Thursday as graphic close-up images of the body of his slain girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp were shown during his murder trial. Images of Steenkamp's gunshot wounds appeared very ...

Before two buildings in New York City exploded on Wednesday, killing 7 people and injuring over 60, Mayor Bill de Blasio still hadn't appointed a new Department of Buildings commissioner. De Blasio, who's two and a half months into his first term as mayor, ...

(Updates with court comment in second paragraph.) March 13 (Bloomberg) -- Uli Hoeness, the president of FC Bayern Munich, was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison in a tax case that gripped Germany and tainted the image of the country's most successful ...

Mideast Israel Palestinians An Israeli is positioned at the Israel and Gaza border on Thursday, March 13, 2014. Tsafrir Abayov—AP. (JERUSALEM) — The Israeli military says two rockets have just been fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel. The barrage raised ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Russia of international isolation resulting from the Crimea crisis and threatened further sanctions. But the West is also to blame for the conflict, writes DW's Bettina Marx. Dark clouds over German parliament Photo: ...

MUNICH, GERMANY - MARCH 13: Ulrich Hoeness, President of German Bundesliga football club Bayern Munich stands in the courtroom during his trial for tax evasion at the Higher Regional Court of Munich on March 13, 2014 in Munich, Germany. Hoeness ...

Two phone makers in India will be spared the usual licensing fee for adopting Windows Phone, says The Times of India. Lance Whitney. by Lance Whitney. March 13, 2014 6:30 AM PDT. Follow @lancewhit. (Credit: Josh Long/CNET). Microsoft reportedly will ...

Taipei, March 13 (CNA) Taiwan's representative office in Manila will hand over more donations by Taiwanese individuals and businesses to the Philippines for relief and reconstruction in the wake of last year's Super Typhoon Haiyan, officials said Thursday.

Although 10% of the population has some degree of chronic kidney disease, the condition is overlooked, and the numbers are set to rise over the coming decade, health experts warned on World Kidney Day. Around 600 million people worldwide have some ...

London: Researchers have revealed that a new after-sex vagina gel can be used by women to protect themselves against HIV. According to scientists at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, drugs applied three hours after exposure ...

Allaying fears of a crisis in China as the Government's debt crossed a whopping $3.4 trillion, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang today also vowed to show zero-tolerance to corrupt officials and “ensure corruption has nowhere to hide”. China has attached high ...