Barack Obama concludes a press conference announcing sanctions on Russian and Ukrainian officials over the crisis in Crimea. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque). If only America were fighting more wars, Russia would never have taken Crimea. That's basically the ...

GRAPHIC DETAIL: Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius takes notes during court proceedings at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria. Relevant offers. Africa. Pistorius' Rottweiler barrister takes the stage Nigerians killed in stampede for jobs ...

Search jet spans Australia to Kazakhstan. Updated: 06:41, Tuesday March 18, 2014. Search jet spans Australia to Kazakhstan. The search for the Malaysia Airlines passenger jet that disappeared without a trace more than a week ago has been expanded to ...

CAMBRIDGE -- After days of rumors and anticipation, a team led by a Harvard astronomer announced Monday it had detected a pattern in the distant cosmos that reveals what happened in the first moments of the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago: a ...

Malaysia's acting Transport Minister Hishamuddin Hussein shows maps of southern corridor and northern corridor of the search and rescue operation during a press conference at a hotel near the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, in Sepang, Malaysia, ...

The price of oil fell Monday near $98 a barrel after Crimea voted to split from Ukraine and join Russia, a development already anticipated by investors. The vote triggered sanctions by the EU and U.S. against Russia, but none that affected the country's energy ...

Oh, Google, you didn't think Monday mornings were painful enough? If you've been trying to get any work done this morning, you may already have noticed that the Google's Chat, Spreadsheets, and Drive services haven't been working. Problems started ...

Washington — Waves of gravity that rippled through space right after the Big Bang have been detected for the first time, in a landmark discovery that adds to our understanding of how the universe was born, US scientists said Monday. The waves were ...

Already feeling heat from a controversial ignition-switch defect on older compacts, General Motors announced today that it will recall another 1.5 million vehicles for unrelated defects. Included are nearly 1.2 million units of GM's popular large crossovers — the ...

Oscar Pistorius is escorted into High Court in Pretoria ahead of his murder trial on 17 March 2014. Picture: Aletta Gardner/EWN. Multimedia. Previous line. Next line. Oscar Pistorius is escorted into High Court in Pretoria ahead of his murder trial on 17.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday that it will require tough decisions and risks to achieve peace with Israel and said now is the time for leaders on both sides to “embrace this opportunity.”

In Arutz Sheva interview, political scientist notes that Abbas is in a difficult position in talks, neither PA nor Israel wants agreement. By Tova Dvorin. First Publish: 3/17/2014, 9:03 PM. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Flash 90. Dr. Ido Zelkowitz, an expert on ...

Technical difficulties don't elude Google either. It seems that Google popular free service Gmail has encountered several problems today, with users being unable to use the service's integrated chat system. Users attempting to chat through Gmail's free chat ...

PARIS -- With the City of Light buried under a thick blanket of smog for a week now, authorities in the French capital took drastic steps Monday to cut the number of cars on the road and to encourage commuters to find more environmentally friendly ways of ...

Scientists have detected the enigmatic ripples in deep space that were triggered by the rapid expansion of the Universe during the earliest moments of its creation some 13.7 billion years ago. In a ground-breaking experiment, astrophysicists have captured ...

A Boeing 777 has seemingly disappeared, along with the 239 people on board. But is Malaysia Airlines more risky? And is it safe to fly at all? News. How safe is flying? It is every nervous flyer's worst nightmare: a flight gone AWOL with no explanation, and no ...

Fashion designer L'Wren Scott, the girlfriend of Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger, was found dead from an apparent suicide in her Manhattan apartment, police said on Monday. She was 47. Scott, a former model whose slim-fitting, boldly printed dresses ...

Washington - US President Barack Obama on Monday told Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas that both he and Israeli leaders must make tough political decisions and take "risks" for peace. Meeting Obama at the White House, Abbas said a scheduled Israeli ...

Though not a household name, L'Wren Scott dressed fashion's A-list. First lady Michelle Obama wore a raspberry-colored design by Scott with peacock-blue kitten heels on the cover of Harper's Bazaar in November 2010. Amy Adams wore a cap-sleeve ...

General Motors CEO Mary Barra gave her most critical statement yet on the automakers' handling of a flawed ignition switch, calling it a tragic situation in which "terrible things happened." Barra, in a video taped for GM employees and released to the public ...