In what can be termed as a significant discovery in the field of HIV/AIDS prevention, a vaginal gel has been developed that, if applied as long as three hours after sex, can protect monkeys from infection. The gel has raltegravir, an FDA-approved anti-retroviral ...

Police help a bleeding and injured pro-Ukraine demonstrator who was attacked by a group by men from an opposing pro-Russia demonstration in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on March 14. © AFP. Tweet · Christopher J. Miller. Christopher J. Miller ...

With an estimated 2.2 million Canadians unaware that they are suffering from kidney damage, the Kidney Foundation of Canada is launching a free online tool that will help raise awareness about kidney disease. Click here for the online tool. The latest ...

LONDON: US secretary of state John Kerry will seek assurances from Russia at talks in London on Friday that it will not try to annex Crimea and will address concerns over Ukraine through negotiation, a senior state department official said. Kerry and Russian ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Islamic militants struck the northern city of Maiduguri Friday morning, attacking the main military barracks with gunfire and explosions, but the Ministry of Defence said it repelled the insurgents and inflicted "heavy casualties." Children ...

WeChat is the second most popular social networking site in China. With 370 million users and a rapidly growing base, it may well be able overtake Weibo, which currently has a user base in excess of one-half billion people. However, the rise of social ...

MUNICH (Reuters) - Adidas (ADSGn.DE) boss Herbert Hainer will become the new president and business chairman of German soccer club Bayern Munich, after the resignation of Uli Hoeness, the club's supervisory board said on Friday. Uli Hoeness said on ...

LONDON – U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry and his Russian counterpart have launched a new round of talks to try to cool down the crisis over Moscow's de facto occupation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula and the secession referendum planned there ...

MAIDUGURI (Nigeria): Suspected Islamic militants struck the northern city of Maiduguri on Friday morning, attacking the main military barracks and causing panicked residents to flee. Children walking to school when the shooting erupted cried in fear and ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - APRIL 19: U.S. President Barack Obama (L) talks with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (R) during a town hall style meeting at Facebook headquarters on April 20, 2011 in Palo Alto, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images).

LAHORE: PCB has announced the schedule for the home series against Australia to be played in the UAE from the 3rd of October this year. According to PCB the home series will start with the only T-20 on October 3 at Abu Dhabi. As per the announced ...

Bayern Munich will be looking to tighten their vice-like grip on the Bundesliga title when they welcome third-placed Bayer Leverkusen to the Allianz Arena on Saturday. The champions currently boast a 20-point lead at the top of the table and are clear 1/6 ...

Computerworld - Companies that suffer major data breaches almost always portray themselves as victims of cutting edge attack techniques and tools. The reality, though, is often much more mundane. Case in point: Target, which last year was hit with a major ...

SEPANG: With no new details, the search for MH370 has now been pushed further east into South China Sea and into the Indian Ocean, said acting transport minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein. "The priority remains finding the plane," he told ...

Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes was fastest in a practice at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, as Formula One teams get used to new engines that may undo Red Bull's dominance. Hamilton posted a lap time of 1 minute, 29.6 seconds in Melbourne, 0.16 ...

US President Barack Obama talks with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during a town hall style meeting at Facebook headquarters on April 20 in Palo Alto, California. Obama held the Facebook town hall to answer questions about the deficit and the ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Police investigating the shooting of model and lawyer Reeva Steenkamp by her boyfriend, South African Olympian Oscar Pistorius, had to open another investigation into themselves -- over the theft of a valuable watch when ...

Mark Zuckerberg is furious with US President Barack Obama, who - metaphorically, at least - clasped his hands over his ears and repeatedly said to himself "I can't hear you" when the Facebook boss tried to grumble about spies spying on people. The free ...

BERLIN — Uli Hoeness, long one of Germany's most beloved soccer stars, said Friday that he would resign his post as president of the country's most storied team, Bayern Munich, and would not appeal his sentence of three and a half years in prison for ...

Ukraine began mobilizing its new National Guard on Friday as tension over the fate of Crimea heightened and street violence flared once again. More than 600 men and women turned up near the city's Independence Square on Friday morning to volunteer ...