This South Korea Coast Guard handout photo shows the ferry sinking on its way to Jeju island from Incheon. Jindo, South Korea: South Korean coastguard and navy divers resumed searching on Thursday for about 290 people still missing, many of them ...

Boko Haram is suspected of being behind the abduction of more than 100 women and girls from their school on Monday. Last updated: 16 Apr 2014 23:47. Email Article. Print Article. Share article. Send Feedback. A bomb blast also killed at least 75 people ...

WASHINGTON—The Ukraine crisis and Russia's newly combative stance have scrambled the world map around which Barack Obama shaped his foreign-policy doctrine and stand to alter the arc of his presidency. The crisis is distracting attention from Mr.

More than one million people in South Sudan are at risk of famine, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has warned. Source. AAP. UPDATED 10 MINS AGO. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has warned that more than one million people in South Sudan ...

Canadian police have arrested a 19-year-old man and charged him in connection with exploiting the Heartbleed bug to steal taxpayer data from a government website. In what appeared to be the first report of an attack using a flaw in software known as ...

(BOSTON) -- The man accused in a hoax on the one year anniversary of the Boston Marathon attacks was ordered held on $100,000 bail when he appeared briefly in court Wednesday. In a blue V-neck prison smock, 25-year-old Kevin Edson stood while ...

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) hearing of a complaint by the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) party into alleged censorship of election adverts by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has been ...

Chad's entire contingent of peacekeepers has withdrawn from the Central African Republic (CAR), a military official has confirmed. The withdrawal followed accusations that Chad had aided Muslim rebels in CAR, a charge it denied. Chad had about 850 ...

The number of Syrian refugees has passed the two million mark, according to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR). Inside Syria, a further 4.25 million people have been internally displaced. UNHCR says about 5,000 to 6,000 Syrian women, children and men ...

The mayor of the Mexican city of Apatzingan, a stronghold of the Knights Templar drug cartel, has been arrested on suspicion of extorting money on behalf of the cartel. Prosecutors say Uriel Chavez pressured city councillors to hand over $1,500 (£900) of ...

It is not known whether the music producer who recorded the gunshot and cricket bat tests presented as evidence in Oscar Pistorius's trial has any experience in such, the High Court in Pretoria heard on Wednesday. Prosecutor Gerrie Nel questioned defence ...

South-Korea-ferry-capsize Coast guard personnel search for passengers near the South Korean ferry that capsized off the country's south coast on April 16, 2014. AFP. South Korean rescuers, including elite navy SEAL divers, worked frantically under ...

FORTUNE -- Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the finest Google Android phone of them all? For a brief moment last week, the answer was clear: the HTC One (M8), which I declared in these pages -- without hyperbole! -- to be the best Android device on the ...

BOSTON — Authorities say a man taken into custody near the Boston Marathon finish line carrying a backpack with a rice cooker inside is scheduled to appear in court. The Suffolk district attorney's office says the 25-year-old man from Wakefield is expected to ...

The moon could be seen eclipsed and bathed in an orange, red or brown glow. Parts of the world saw a rare celestial event on Tuesday when the Earth's shadow fell across the moon, turning it orange. The lunar eclipse unfolded over three hours beginning at ...

People walk past a board which reads "Together with Russia" in the Crimean city of Simferopol on April 7, 2014. The United States is coordinating with its European allies on "additional steps" to slap more sanctions on Russia over the crisis in Ukraine, a US ...

The three men were already dead on their arrival at hospital and were all in their 20s, Hamas' health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told AFP. Qudra said the other five injured in the blast were all in serious condition. According to eyewitnesses, the ...

The market is always in search of a story and investors, it seems, think they have found a new one this year in China. The country's growth slowdown and mounting financial risks have spurred a growing wave of pessimism, with economists worldwide warning ...

This South Korea Coast Guard handout photo shows South Korea Coast Guard members rescuing some of the passengers and crew aboard a ferry sinking on its way to Jeju island from Incheon. Seoul: South Korean rescue teams, including elite navy SEAL ...

Economic growth of 7.4% in the first quarter is in line with China's 2014 annual year-on-year target of about 7.5% growth. The slowdown from the 7.7% GDP growth registered in the past two years is due to the government rebalancing the economy, shifting ...