In a surprise announcement, Microsoft said it would bring back the Start Menu to the Windows desktop. It's not a part of the coming Windows 8.1 Update, but will come in a future upgrade. Microsoft's Terry Myerson showed off the new version of the Start Menu ...

The deadliest strain of Ebola virus is spreading through West Africa. Confirmed cases in Guinea, where the outbreak began, now number 127, of whom 83 victims have died. Eight deaths have occurred in the capital, Conakry, with further cases in ...

With the dust still settlling on a 1-1 draw against Atletico Madrid at the Nou Camp on Tuesday that could keep Barcelona out of the Champions League semi-finals for the first time in seven years, the club were told by Fifa on Wednesday that they cannot sign ...

Amazon has unveiled a set-top box called Fire TV that plugs directly into any television via an HDMI cable and provides instant access to Netflix, Amazon Prime Instant Video, Hulu Plus and other video streaming apps, as well as over 200,000 movies and TV ...

Earthquake of magnitude 6.2 hits Panama (USGS); Francois Hollande set to put forward Pierre Moscovici as a candidate to become a European Commissioner, a government source says (AFP); Rebels in eastern Libya will reopen the seized Zueitina oil port ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 hit Panama on Wednesday (local time), the US Geological Survey said. The quake came a day after Chile was shaken by an 8.2 magnitude quake that killed six people and set off a tsunami with two-metre waves.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Presidents and prime ministers from Europe and Africa gathered in Brussels on Wednesday for an EU-Africa summit designed to promote peace and investment on the world's poorest continent. But cracks emerged even before the ...

U.S. calls emergency meeting to salvage negotiations; Samantha Power says U.S. opposes unilateral moves by Palestinians; Minister urges Netanyahu to annul Oslo accords. By Haaretz | Apr. 2, 2014 | 7:10 PM ...

U.S. calls emergency meeting to salvage negotiations; Samantha Power says U.S. opposes unilateral moves by Palestinians; Minister urges Netanyahu to annul Oslo accords. By Haaretz | Apr. 2, 2014 | 7:10 PM ...

South African President Jacob Zuma submitted his official response to a report by the nation's graft ombudsman that said he improperly benefited from a state-funded 215 million rand ($20 million) upgrade of his home. Zuma sent his report to the speaker of ...

Francois Hollande set to put forward Pierre Moscovici as a candidate to become a European Commissioner, a government source says (AFP); Rebels in eastern Libya will reopen the seized Zueitina oil port first once they have reached a final deal with the ...

BERNE: Barcelona have been given a transfer ban for two consecutive windows and fined 450,000 Swiss francs (RM1.66mil) for breaching rules on the international transfer of foreign under-18 players, FIFA said on Wednesday. The Spanish federation ...

Poor Ouya. The little microconsole hasn't exactly had an easy run of things so far, and this isn't going to help the situation. Amazon announced its long-rumored set-top box today, and in addition to movies and TV, the retail giant's box will serve as a Games ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Russia has massed all the forces it needs on Ukraine's border if it were to decide to carry out an "incursion" into the country, and it could achieve its objective in three to five days, NATO's top military commander said on Wednesday.

In Kuala Lumpur and Beijing, lawyers are stalking the hallways of hotels, looking for potential clients. As insensitive as that may sound, lawsuits and settlements are the next phases for the families of passengers on missing Malaysia Flight 370. The airline is ...

NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 2 – Inspector General of Police David Kimaiyo is now appealing to members of the public to give information regarding Tuesday night's killing of radical Mombasa cleric Sheikh Abubakar Shariff alias Makaburi and a colleague. Kimaiyo ...

AFRICAN and European leaders opened crisis talks yesterday on the “terrifying” violence in the Central African Republic where peacekeepers have been unable to stop a deadly spiral of strife. As leaders of the two continents headed into Brussels for a ...

The old and new version of the tiny part that is at the center of the GM recall probe. NEW YORK (CNNMoney). A problem with a tiny, 57-cent part inside the ignition switch has led to a massive recall of 2.6 million General Motors vehicles, numerous federal ...

As my colleague Kareem Fahim reports, Egyptian journalists who rushed to the scene of a bombing near the campus of Cairo University on Wednesday captured two subsequent explosions on video. A camera from the news site Youm 7, apparently switched ...

Muslim cleric Abubakar Shariff speaks during an interview in Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa in this October 5, 2013 file photograph. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya/Files. MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Two prominent Kenyan Muslim rights groups threatened on ...