What possessed moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to suddenly join forces with Hamas chief Ismail Haniya, whose organization is bent on Israel's annihilation? As for the timing, it was even more puzzling - it came smack in the middle of U.S. ...

By Matt Spetalnick and Thomas Grove. KUALA LUMPUR/SLAVIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday said the United States and Europe must join forces to impose sanctions on Russia to stop it destabilizing Ukraine, where ...

Germany's Siemens wants to talk to France's Alstom about "strategic opportunities" raising the prospect of a takeover tussle for the French firm. Siemens contacted the board of Alstom to "signal its willingness to discuss future strategic opportunities". It follows ...

Johannesburg - Cosatu's general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi will abide by his federation's decision to campaign for the ruling party ahead of the general elections, but said his support will not be unconditional, the Sunday Times reported. Cosatu has ...

The Health Ministry announced on Saturday seven new deaths from the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, taking the country's death toll to 94. A statement said that 24 new cases of MERS were detected in the Kingdom, bringing the total to 323 since the ...

The Canonisation of John Paul II and John XXIII is taking place in Rome in an historic day for Roman Catholics across the world. 9:31am UK, Sunday 27 April 2014. Pope Francis performs the canonisation ceremony of John Paul II and John XXIII - Vatican ...

"Hamas denies the Holocaust while trying to bring about a new Holocaust through the destruction of the State of Israel," Netanyahu says at cabinet meeting, calling on Abbas to "return to the peace track." Binyamin Netanyahu. Prime Minister Binyamin ...

KRAKOW, Poland – Nine years after his death, Polish-born Pope John Paul II is rallying thousands of his countrymen again as the Vatican canonizes him as a saint. Crowds with papal yellow and white flags and portable canvas stools arrived Sunday to watch ...

SEOUL — South Korea's prime minister has offered his resignation over a passenger ferry disaster earlier this month that left over 300 dead and missing. President Park Geun-hye has yet to accept the resignation from the mainly ceremonial post, and bodies ...

Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- The world must unite to show Russia its disapproval of its actions in Ukraine, U.S. President Barack Obama said Sunday. Rather than going with sanctions alone and making it a United States vs. Russia issue, "it's important for us to ...

The South Korean prime minister resigned on Sunday over the government's handling of the ferry which sunk with more than 300 people on board. Chung Hong-won said he did not want to be a a “burden on the administration”. Relatives had criticised the ...

Vyacheslav Ponomaryov (2nd R, standing), separatist de facto mayor of Slaviansk, and detained international observers take part in a meeting with journalists today. Ponomaryov said all the group were in good health, but they were anxious to be allowed to ...

FILE - In this April 15, 1963 file photo, Pope John XXIII sits at his working desk in his studio in a 9th century tower in the Vatican gardens. In the background, the dome of St. Peter's Basilica.AP Photo/Luigi Felici, File. JOHNPAULfoto.jpg. FILE - In this Nov.

A robotic mini-submarine deployed to find the Malaysia Airlines plane today completed its 14th mission with still no sign of wreckage, even as the planned air and surface search was suspended due to inclement weather. Autonomous underwater vehicle ...

The California-based company said on Friday a "small percentage" of iPhone 5 models manufactured through March of 2013 may have on-off buttons that stop working or work intermittently, in a posting on its support website. "Apple will replace the ...

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - US President Barack Obama on Sunday said new international sanctions set to come into force against Russia would send a message that it must stop its "provocations" in eastern Ukraine. "It is important for us to take further steps ...

Apple Inc has now confirmed a free repair to the owners who have an iPhone 5 with a defective sleep – wake button. The button in the iPhone 5 is defective and behaves abnormally most of the times. As owners reported that the iPhone 5 button sometimes ...

Apple Inc has now confirmed a free repair to the owners who have an iPhone 5 with a defective sleep – wake button. The button in the iPhone 5 is defective and behaves abnormally most of the times. As owners reported that the iPhone 5 button sometimes ...

Billionaire tech investor Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies plans to sue the US Air Force, saying it should be allowed to compete in a satellite-launch market monopolised by the two biggest defence contractors. "If we compete and lose, that is fine," ...

KABUL, Afghanistan – A British helicopter crashed in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing five Nato troops in the single deadliest day this year for foreign forces as they prepare to withdraw from the country, officials said. The British defence ministry ...