Gold hit its highest closing price this year as concerns mount over Russia and Ukraine. Gold for April delivery rose $6.60, or 0.5 percent, to settle at $1,379 an ounce Friday. A referendum will be held Sunday in Ukraine's region of Crimea, where residents will ...

Mumbai — An apartment block collapsed in the Indian financial hub Mumbai on Friday, killing six people and injuring three others in the latest of a string of deadly building cave-ins, authorities said. Dozens of rescuers scoured the rubble in search of anyone ...

'When I get to heaven,” my late friend Tony Benn was fond of saying, “I'll present the Almighty with 15 million words and say: well, what do you make of it?” Benn was brought up to believe that every minute of one's life should be accounted for, and few people ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — As the search continues for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight, a key question is what happened to the Boeing 777's transponder. Transponders are devices that emit electronic signals containing information that shows up on air ...

Amateur video has captured the dramatic moment when a seven-storey building in Mumbai, India started to collapse. Dozens of firefighters and rescue workers have been sifting through piles of rubble and concrete slabs to find any people buried under the ...

The extensive interview covered a wide range of topics like Facebook's deal for WhatsApp, the state of the planet, the NSA's surveillance program, and whether God exists. By Ananth Baliga | March. 14, 2014 at 3:21 PM | Comments. 3. 6. 0. 0. Bill Gates in an ...

In this Tuesday, March 11, 2014 photo, an aid worker measures the upper arm circumference of 9-month-old Shurouk as her mother Mervat, 31, holds her inside their tent at a camp for Syrian refugees camp in Kab Elias, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.

PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA—A well-known athlete, who is white, is charged with murder after shooting and killing his girlfriend, a model and reality show star who also happens to be white. This is the case of double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius, whose ...

The Eiffel Tower is barely seen through the smog from Paris, March 14, 2014. Nearly three-quarters of France is under alert in what the European Environment Agency says is the worst air pollution since 2007. Thick smog has settled over Paris today in one of ...

Oscar Pistorius AP Photo/Alon Skuy Oscar Pistorius had a history of reckless behavior even before being accused of murder. It wasn't gunshots that initially awoke Oscar Pistorius' next-door neighbors the night Reeva Steenkamp, his girlfriend of three months, ...

The Oscar Pistorius murder trial continues with testimony from the first policeman to arrive on scene. Nathan Frandino reports. Relevant offers. Africa. Photos show 'trail of blood' in Pistorius' home Pistorius 'on stumps' to shoot girlfriend, court told · Pistorius ...

At least seven people were killed and eight others injured when an old, seven-storey residential building collapsed in a Mumbai suburb today, police said. The building had already been condemned as unsafe when it crashed down into a huge pile of ...

Rescue workers search for survivors in the debris of a building that collapsed Friday in Mumbai, India. ASSOCIATED PRESS Enlarge. MUMBAI, India — An old, seven-story residential building collapsed Friday in a Mumbai suburb, killing at least seven people ...

Despite the most recent slowdown in global warming, a new study from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) shows that the planet will continue to warm this century as projected by earlier estimates. NASA computer animation showing projected ...

NEW YORK (March 14, 2014) Target Corp. is acknowledging that its security software picked up on suspicious activity after a massive cyberattack was launched, but says it decided not to take immediate action. The acknowledgement came after a media ...

Russia warned on Friday it was still ready to intervene in Ukraine to protect its “compatriots and citizens” against attacks by “far right radicals.” The Russian Foreign Ministry issued the warning in a statement on deadly clashes in Russian-speaking eastern ...

Banned French striker Nicolas Anelka on Friday revealed he will leave West Bromwich Albion with immediate effect. In this picture taken on December 28, 2013, West Bromwich Albion's French striker Nicolas Anelka gestures as he celebrates scoring their ...

Russia and the US have "no common vision" on the crisis in Ukraine, Russia's foreign minister has said, after talks with his US counterpart. However Sergei Lavrov called his London meeting with John Kerry "constructive". Mr Kerry said the US was "deeply ...

Paris is resorting to the emergency measure of making all public transport free in an attempt to deal with a smog problem that shrouded its famous skyline a murky veil. Nearly three-quarters of France is under alert in what the European Environment Agency ...

Peshawar: At least seven people were killed and over 25 other were wounded in a powerful suicide blast, officials said on Friday. Blast occurred in Bhattah Tal Bazaar, a busy market in the area. The terrorists targeted police van near police station at Sarband ...