KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Unidentified gunmen kidnapped a Chinese tourist and a Filipino hotel worker, both women, from a beach resort on an island in Malaysian Borneo, Chinese and Malaysian authorities said Thursday, spurring an international ...

Washington: Five years after an Army psychiatrist staged a mass murder at US Army's Fort Hood base in 2009 killing 13 soldiers, a similar shooting incident came back to haunt the same base when on Wednesday a soldier shot dead three people besides ...

Chile's preparedness and building standards were in for praise by the experts as in spite of a massive 8.2-magnitude quake and further strong aftershocks, the death toll in Chile was as low as six. An official from Chile's national emergency service attributed it ...

Mombasa, Kenya: Abubakar Sheikh Shariff alias Makaburi never held any position in a mosque and never served as an imam. But he was he was smack at the heart of the troubles that rocked several key mosques in his last days, especially at Masjid Musa, ...

Islamabad: Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, who is on trial for treason, narrowly escaped an assassination attempt as a bomb went off shortly before his convoy was due to pass early on Thursday, police said. Investigators at the location of the ...

The number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon has surpassed 1 million, the U.N. refugee agency said Thursday, calling it a “devastating milestone” for the tiny Arab country with about 4.5 million people of its own. Also, three years after Syria's conflict started, ...

Islamabad: Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Thursday narrowly escaped an assassination bid while being taken to his Chak Shahzad farmhouse, reports said. An intense explosion was reported on Faizabad bridge just minutes before ...

THE TURKISH constitutional court has said that the country's blocking of Twitter violates user rights and must be removed. Turkey has shut down access to Twitter and Youtube in stages. Apparently they are now blocked by Turkish internet service providers ...

FORT HOOD, TEXAS — The relaxed and professional bearing of the guards at Fort Hood's main gate early Thursday, belied the brutal violence that had struck the Army post only hours earlier when a soldier killed three people and wounded 16 others before ...

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) wants its own little slice of your living room. Released now, the new $99 Amazon Fire TV set-top box is faster than its competitors. Plus you can talk to it, via the remote, in case you feel the need for a cheap Scotty gag.

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) wants its own little slice of your living room. Released now, the new $99 Amazon Fire TV set-top box is faster than its competitors. Plus you can talk to it, via the remote, in case you feel the need for a cheap Scotty gag.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said NATO shouldn't expand its presence in eastern European member nations as the alliance boosts its forces in response to the Ukraine crisis. “We expect NATO to respect certain rules,” Lavrov told reporters today in ...

ISLAMABAD: A petition was submitted in the Supreme Court Thursday seeking removal of ex-army strongman Pervez Musharraf's name from the Exit Control List (ECL), DawnNews reported. Advocate Shah Khawar submitted the application in the apex court ...

Along side the Windows Phone 8.1 update, Microsoft announced some new features for Windows 8.1 too. It promises to make Windows 8 more user friendly, especially for those who still prefer using a keyboard and mouse. While Windows 8.1 has officially ...

Fishermen try to salvage their boats in the aftermath of an earthquake and tsunami that hit the northern port of Iquique, April 2, 2014. The earthquake, with a magnitude of 8.2, struck off the coast of northern Chile near the copper exporting port of Iquique on ...

Islamabad: Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Thursday narrowly escaped an assassination bid while being taken to his Chak Shahzad farmhouse, reports said. An intense explosion was reported on Faizabad bridge just minutes before ...

Washington: Five years after an Army psychiatrist staged a mass murder at US Army's Fort Hood base in 2009 killing 13 soldiers, a similar shooting incident came back to haunt the same base when on Wednesday a soldier shot dead three people besides ...

KOTA KINABALU: The latest abduction of two women in Semporna was a serious concern that needed to be addressed by the country's security forces and the Eastern Sabah Security Command (Esscom), said Malaysia Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF).

ALGIERS, Algeria – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is telling Israeli and Palestinian leaders that they must "lead" and must do so now, as foundering peace talks he has tried to salvage near collapse. In Algeria for strategic security talks, Kerry said Thursday ...

April 3 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde examines Amazon's new Fire TV offering and how it may impact the competition on Bloomberg Television's “The Pulse.” Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. There could be a ...