Twitter stock dropped more than 10 per cent overnight investor concern about its ability to grow its user base and keep its existing users engaged. The short messaging service booked a net loss in the first quarter because of stock compensation costs, but its ...

The Federal Government, yesterday, made a passionate appeal to parents of 234 female students of a secondary school in Chibok, Borno State, who were abducted by Boko Haram terrorists, to give it more time for rescue operation even as four more girls ...

The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has refused to air a second political advertisement by opposition party the Democratic Alliance (DA), prompting the DA to announce it will launch urgent legal action against the broadcaster today, though ...

Hundreds of pro-Russian separatists overran more Ukrainian government buildings near the Russian border Tuesday, seizing a prosecutor's office in Luhansk and attacking a police station with clubs and automatic weapons. Local authorities say police did ...

The father of a California teenager who stowed away in a jetliner wheel well on a flight to Maui has flown to Hawaii to pick up his son. Abdilahi Yusuf flew to Honolulu and is preparing to return to Santa Clara with his 15-year-old son, Yahya Abdi, the ...

Bacteria resistant to antibiotics have now spread to every part of the world and might lead to a future where minor infections could kill, according to a report published Wednesday by the World Health Organization. In its first global survey of the resistance ...

Shares in the social network Twitter have fallen 11.1 percent on market opening in New York on Wednesday after the company announced disappointing first quarter results. Decreasing user growth and deep net loss triggered a shareholder sell off.

Juba, South Sudan: War-torn South Sudan must not become another Rwanda, the UN envoy for the prevention of genocide said Wednesday, after touring massacre sites in the young nation which is plagued by a wave of atrocities and ethnic killings.

Hours after NBA Commissioner Alan Silver banned Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life and slapped him with a $2.5-million fine Tuesday, a wave of relief and determination appeared to sweep over fans and players at Staples Center. Clippers fans outside ...

Microsoft will later this year start offering its Xbox One game console with a local partner in China, where such devices were banned for more than a decade. -- PHOTO: MICROSOFT. SHANGHAI (AFP) - Microsoft will later this year start offering its Xbox One ...

As part of its Q1 2014 financial earnings reporting, Twitter announced that it now has 255 million active monthly users. This means the social network picked up 14 million new users over the first three months of the year, indicating a growth rate of just 5.8 per ...

LONDON: Society beauty Cressida Bonas was not ready for life in the royal spotlight but remains on good terms with Prince Harry, British newspapers said Wednesday after the couple reportedly split. Sources said the break-up might only be temporary while ...

A post-antibiotic era, where common infections and minor injuries may lead to death, is a real possibility this century, the World Health Organization said in the first global survey of resistance to antimicrobial drugs. “Very high rates of resistance” to treatments ...

The attack killed mostly civilians and was carried out by al Nusra Front, AFP reports. It was the deadliest attack in Homs since the start of the Syrian civil war three years ago. “God allowed the al Nusra Front's fighters to achieve a feat despite draconian security ...

WASHINGTON, April 30. /ITAR-TASS/. The US may abolish sanctions against Russia, if it takes steps towards de-escalation of tensions in Ukraine. Brent Hartley, Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, stated this on Tuesday delivering ...

The star, best known for films including Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Mona Lisa, dies in hospital with his family by his side. 2:43pm UK, Wednesday 30 April 2014. Bob Hoskins in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Video: Bob Hoskins' Best Movie Moments.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) A civil society group says villagers are reporting that scores of girls and young women who were recently kidnapped from a school in Nigeria are being forced to marry Islamic extremists. A federal senator for the area in northeast Nigeria ...

The WHO said the world was 'headed for a post-antibiotic era'. Photograph: Helen Sessions/Alamy. Antibiotics are losing their power to fight infections in every country in the world, according to new data from the World Health Organisation, a situation that ...

Cressida, Cressida, Cressida. You could have been a princessesseda. But you had to go and be all "needy" - whatever that means. Yes, after two years of dating and recent talk of engagement, it's over for the empire's favourite redhead and Cressida, a friend ...

The UK has called on the global chemical weapons watchdog to carry out "with urgency" its investigation into the alleged use of chlorine in Syria. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said on Tuesday that a mission would depart ...