KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- The international search for the missing Malaysian jetliner expanded westward Friday toward the Indian Ocean amid signs the aircraft may have flown on for hours after its last contact with air-traffic control nearly a week ago.

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Police photographs of Oscar Pistorius standing on his blood-stained prosthetic legs and wearing shorts covered in blood, taken shortly after the athlete fatally shot his girlfriend, were shown to the court at his murder trial Friday.

Residents gather at the scene where attackers armed with knives killed three people in Changsha, central China's Hunan province on March 14, 2014. At least six people died after a knifing incident in central China's Changsha city, the state media reported ...

Policemen guard around the site of a deadly stabbing incident in a residential block in Changsha, Hunan province, China, 14 March 2014. It's said by witnesses several Uygur-like people started stabbing passers-by after a quarrel. At least three people were ...

Follow The Globe and Mail's Africa correspondent Geoffrey York as he tweets from Oscar Pistorius' murder trial. An expensive luxury watch was stolen from the bedroom of Oscar Pistorius when police were in control of his house after he shot his girlfriend, his ...

Sources close to the investigation into the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 told Reuters on Friday that radar data showed that the missing plane was deliberately flown across the Malaysian peninsula towards the Andaman Islands. Here are five things ...

The first time that I met anyone from Ukraine was in 1982. I was studying in the US at the time and I was invited to dinner by an Ukrainian family who had emigrated from Kiev to one of those small towns outside of Chicago. It had been a decade or more since ...

Suspected Islamist militants attacked the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri and are battling security forces, Borno State Police Commissioner Lawal Tanko said. “We're trying to contain the situation,” he said today by phone from Maiduguri, the Borno ...

Suspected members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect this morning launched a daring attack on Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. Sources said the assailants sneaked into Maiduguri and divided themselves into groups, some headed towards the Giwa ...

A FIGHT between two food stall owners at a market in southern China today left five people hacked to death and one person fatally shot by police, authorities said. A dispute at the market in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, erupted in a knife fight that ...

Bare-chested with blood drenched all over his shorts and prosthetic legs, these dramatic images show a shell-shocked Oscar Pistorius moments after he killed his girlfriend. The first police officers on the scene found the Paralympian pacing around in the ...

A knife-wielding attacker hacked five persons to death in central China today before being shot dead by the police, two weeks a deadly stabbing spree at a railway station left 33 people dead. The incident happened in Changsha City, capital of central China's ...

The State has been coy about revealing whether it will call former investigator Hilton Botha to the stand in the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius. File picture: Masi Losi. Related Stories. Oscar trial: Watch stolen from scene · Fireworks then the monotony of court ...

Google smartwatch is in the works, it comes from the popular leakster @evleaks that the company has indeed decided the size and memory of the device. The processor for the Google powered smartwatch is yet to be decided. When we hear about rumors of ...

Many tech fans, and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) fans in particular, are eagerly awaiting the release of the forthcoming iOS 8 operating system. Apple always keeps both its hardware and software updates strictly under wraps until it decides that they need to hit ...

A furious Mark Zuckerberg phoned President Barack Obama to personally chastise him over reports Washington spy chiefs had impersonated a Facebook server to infect surveillance targets' computers. The 29-year-old Facebook CEO posted on his social ...

Five people in China have been stabbed to death and their attacker shot dead by police, authorities have confirmed. The deadly attack occurred following a dispute between two street vendors, according to reports from Changsha, leading to one vendor and ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Suspected Islamic militants are attacking the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, with shooting and explosions putting residents to flight. Children walking to school when shooting erupted are crying in fear and confusion.

March 14 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Ryan Chilcote previews today's meeting of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov ahead of Sunday's referendum vote in Crimea on Bloomberg Television's “On The Move.”.

LONDON — Concerns over the Chinese economy and the ongoing tensions in Ukraine continued to drive stock markets around the world lower Friday. The twin worries have had a firm grip over financial markets all week, especially as there's been a relative ...