Microsoft closed 0n Friday its $7.2 billion purchase of Nokia's devices business, a move Microsoft claims will increase the profitability of its Windows smartphones and increase its share in a market dominated by Google, Samsung and Apple.

A drunk passenger who caused a hijack scare on a Virgin Australia flight by trying to break into the cockpit has been arrested. Related Articles. [TICON-A VIDEO] Breaking: Passenger plane forced to land in Bali after hijacking. Also in this section. [TICON-A ...

This is an Android phone, and you can now buy it from Microsoft. (Nokia photo). Microsoft has been a hardware company for a long time. With the release of the first Microsoft Mouse in 1983, the company that began with a version of BASIC written for what's ...

KATHMANDU - Fresh ice avalanches struck on a perilous route where 16 Everest sherpas were killed last week, hiking officials said on Friday, making it almost certain that no one will summit the world's highest mountain from Nepal during this year's climbing ...

KATHMANDU - Fresh ice avalanches struck on a perilous route where 16 Everest sherpas were killed last week, hiking officials said on Friday, making it almost certain that no one will summit the world's highest mountain from Nepal during this year's climbing ...

Relatives of victims of the "Sewol" ferry express their frustrations as they surround deputy head of the national coastguard Choi Sang-Hwan (C) after forcibly removing him from an office at Jindo harbour on April 24, 2014. (AFP Photo/Ed Jones). Tags. Accident ...

Relatives of victims of the "Sewol" ferry express their frustrations as they surround deputy head of the national coastguard Choi Sang-Hwan (C) after forcibly removing him from an office at Jindo harbour on April 24, 2014. (AFP Photo/Ed Jones). Tags. Accident ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the West of wanting to "seize" Ukraine, amid escalating rhetoric between Russia and the US. On Thursday US Secretary of State John Kerry had accused Russia of "distraction, deception and ...

JUSTIN Bieber has apologised to those he offended by visiting a Japanese war shrine, saying he thought it was a beautiful site and only a place of prayer. Also in this section. Courtney and Irish boyfriend rock the red carpet at Tribeca · I cannot wait to relax ...

JUSTIN Bieber has apologised to those he offended by visiting a Japanese war shrine, saying he thought it was a beautiful site and only a place of prayer. Also in this section. Courtney and Irish boyfriend rock the red carpet at Tribeca · I cannot wait to relax ...

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said Wednesday that he would be circulating a draft of the FCC's new network neutrality rules to the other commissioners Thursday (April 24). This is their third attempt at this particular power garb. It's becoming fetishistic.

Google+ may soon join Google Wave on the short but memorable list of Google failures. According to a report from TechCrunch, Google's attempt at social media may soon be more of a platform for other ideas rather than a social media option similar to the ...

Google+ may soon join Google Wave on the short but memorable list of Google failures. According to a report from TechCrunch, Google's attempt at social media may soon be more of a platform for other ideas rather than a social media option similar to the ...

Google+ may soon join Google Wave on the short but memorable list of Google failures. According to a report from TechCrunch, Google's attempt at social media may soon be more of a platform for other ideas rather than a social media option similar to the ...

Google+ may soon join Google Wave on the short but memorable list of Google failures. According to a report from TechCrunch, Google's attempt at social media may soon be more of a platform for other ideas rather than a social media option similar to the ...

SYDNEY, April 25 (Xinhua) -- A drunk passenger tried to enter the cockpit of a flight from Brisbane to Denpasar, Indonesia, and the situation is not "hijacking," Virgin Australia confirmed on its official Twitter and Facebook pages on Friday. Indonesia's local ...

(CNN) -- On Monday, news broke that about 200 girls had been kidnapped from their school in Chibok, in the northeastern state of Borno -- a region at the center of Nigeria's five-year terrorist insurgency. The very next day, the Nigerian military announced that ...

(CNN) -- On Monday, news broke that about 200 girls had been kidnapped from their school in Chibok, in the northeastern state of Borno -- a region at the center of Nigeria's five-year terrorist insurgency. The very next day, the Nigerian military announced that ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — More than 20 people were killed Friday in southwest Congo when generators failed during a festival honoring a popular singer, plunging the stadium into darkness and causing a stampede, officials and witnesses said. The power ...

U.S. President Barack Obama and his South Korean counterpart, Park Geun-hye, are warning North Korea against conducting another nuclear weapons test. During a joint news conference in Seoul Friday, Mr. Obama said Pyongyang will get nothing except ...