The apparent shooting down of a Malaysian Airlines jet over eastern Ukraine with 295 people on board is a dramatic turn in the region's simmering crisis. Any proof that the passenger aircraft was blown out of the sky at 32,000 feet by a Russian fighter jet by ...

Microsoft confirmed it will cut up to 18,000 jobs over the next year, part of the tech giant's efforts to streamline its business under new CEO Satya Nadella. Mark Barger reports. Microsoft confirmed it will cut up to 18,000 jobs over the next year, part of the tech ...

Few Liverpool players have suffered as many rumours about whether they'll be at Anfield in the future or not than long serving defender Agger. It has taken Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers to come out and emphasise what he feels the defender continues to ...

Louis van Gaal gave little away during his first official press conference as Manchester United this afternoon. The Dutchman insisted that he was thrilled to have been given such a huge opportunity and was yet to decide who his captain would be, but did not ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed military to begin a ground offensive in Gaza following a five-hour ceasefire. Fighting resumed after a rocket fired from Gaza hit southern Israel exactly as the UN-requested five-hour lull ended at 3pm ...

Sometimes there are enough cues from the proceedings on the field of play to understand what's going on behind the scenes. While allowing the International Cricket Council's law to take its course in the James Anderson and Ravindra Jadeja case, it is ...

Nothing more could be asked from an opening day at The Open Championship than the two biggest names setting out their stall alongside the world number one before a raucous audience of lucky sunbathers at Royal Liverpool. Rory McIlroy's sumptuous 66 ...

... * Gold posts largest one-day pct gain in a month. * US crude up 2 pct on stockpile drop, Russia tensions. * Palladium at 13-1/2 year highs, wheat up 2.5 pct. By Barani Krishnan. NEW YORK, July 17 (Reuters) - Gold prices jumped their most in a month on ...

Microsoft's 14 percent staff reduction, the largest in its history and focused heavily on employees acquired from Nokia's devices and services business, has some observers thinking Satya Nadella got a bad case of Lumia-induced indigestion. Where his ...

Terming the crash of a Malaysian airliner in eastern Ukraine as a "terrible tragedy", US President Barack Obama today said officials were trying to establish if any Americans were on board. "The world is watching reports of a downed passenger jet near the ...

Thursday was a tremendous day at the first round of the British Open. If you missed any of the golf here are 10 things you need to know about what happened. 1. That leaderboard! Rory McIlroy leads but Sergio Garcia, Adam Scott, Tiger Woods, Jim Furyk, ...

Continuous updates on the developing story of the Malaysian plane that reportedly was shot down over Ukraine. Above: The State Department briefing. Copyright ©2012 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Right Reserved ACAP ENABLED. Last Updated: ...

A U.S. Senate defense subcommittee has voted to double funding for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system. The Pentagon originally requested $175 million for Iron Dome, but if the new bill passes, Israel would receive more than $350 million. That's good ...

Press coverage of Rupert Murdoch's attempt to buy Time Warner indicates that Fox would sell CNN in such a deal, as the New York Times puts it, "to allay concerns from anti-trust regulators." As a Bloomberg Businessweek article puts it: "one thing is clear: ...

Cricket - Investec Test Series England vs. India - 1st Test Trent Bridge Jimmy Anderson has outstripped Fred Trueman as England's most prolific Test wicket-taker in England. Photograph: Visionhaus/Corbis. Lord's is a good place to bump into people. With the ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - The head of the European Investment Bank said on Thursday his institute would not provide projects in Russia with funding that had been planned for this year and the coming years now that European leaders have expanded their ...

A film extolling the virtues of Louis van Gaal was playing in Old Trafford's Europa Suite in the minutes before he stepped out of a side door for his first piece of public theatre as Manchester United manager. Teddy Sheringham, Frank de Boer and Clarence ...

Washington: Boeing, the maker of the Malaysian Airlines aircraft that crashed in eastern Ukraine, on Thursday said it was ready to assist authorities. "Boeing stands ready to provide whatever assistance is requested by authorities," the Seattle-based company ...

Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan wants the government to borrow $1bn (£580m) to strengthen the military's capability to fight militant Islamists. Mr Jonathan wrote to parliament, asking for the expenditure to be approved. Nigeria has a military budget of ...

In Sderot the Israeli city just one mile from its border with Gaza, the spectre of renewed conflict looms extremely close. In the ten days since Hamas and Israel began exchanging fire 600 rockets have reportedly landed in the area. The city's some 24,000 ...