Lee Westwood birdied his last four holes to grab a share of the lead at the PGA Championship on Thursday, with world No. 1 Rory McIlroy one back after his own four-birdie run. Britain's Westwood, eight times a top-three major finisher but yet to hoist a trophy, ...

WASHINGTON—House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) on Friday endorsed President Barack Obama's decision to launch targeted military strikes against Islamist militants in northern Iraq, but he lambasted the White House as "parochial" and "disengaged" ...

U.S. Senator for Arizona McCain leaves American Center after a press briefing in Hanoi. Photo: Reuters. mail · print. View all comments. Tweet. Published: 11:36 PM, August 8, 2014. (Page 1 of 2) - NEXT PAGE | SINGLE PAGE. HANOI - U.S. Senator John ...

U.S. Senator for Arizona McCain leaves American Center after a press briefing in Hanoi. Photo: Reuters. mail · print. View all comments. Tweet. Published: 11:36 PM, August 8, 2014. (Page 1 of 2) - NEXT PAGE | SINGLE PAGE. HANOI - U.S. Senator John ...

Have the Premier League club turned a corner after a litany of high-profile exits? 9 minutes ago 79 Views 1 Comment · Share Tweet Email. IT SEEMS LIKE Southampton have managed to steady the ship after losing five key players (and a manager) to other ...

DAKAR—. Liberia and Sierra Leone are reporting hundreds of confirmed or suspected cases of Ebola. Their public health systems are overrun. And now, both countries have declared states of emergency and sent security forces to quarantine affected areas.

Foreign reporters who covered Operation Protective Edge in Gaza dismiss Israeli accusations of giving Hamas an easy ride. By Anshel Pfeffer | Aug. 8, 2014 | 3:54 PM. Tweet. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Aug. 6, 2014, news conference in Jerusalem ...

LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Malaysia is taking the beleaguered Malaysia Airlines System Bhd (KUL:MY:MAS) (OTC:MLYAF) private as part of plans to restructure the carrier, reports said Friday. Government holding company Khazanah Nasional Bhd ...

The US is carrying out air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants, citing in part the need to protect Americans in Irbil, the capital of semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan. The city has been a base for foreigners and international organisations throughout more ...

UN-run schools acting as civilian shelters have been hit seven times during Israel's Gaza offensive. We catalogue them in detail. UNRWA Jabaliya school attack. Jabaliya Elementary Girls School A & B after the 30 July attack by Israeli strike. Photograph: ...

As the Ebola outbreak in West Africa worsens, stocks for pharmaceutical companies working on treatments are being batted around Wall Street as potentially hot properties. But trading Ebola stocks is a bad idea.

Kiev: Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Friday announced a sanctions list targeting a string of Russian businesses and nationals accused of backing separatists battling government forces in the east of the country.

At least three civilians were killed and 10 others were wounded in overnight shelling of the main rebel stronghold in eastern Ukraine, a day after a leadership reshuffle appeared to signal Moscow's attempt to further distance itself from the pro—Russian ...

At least three civilians were killed and 10 others were wounded in overnight shelling of the main rebel stronghold in eastern Ukraine, a day after a leadership reshuffle appeared to signal Moscow's attempt to further distance itself from the pro—Russian ...

Pretoria, South Africa (CNN) -- The prosecution and defense have made their cases, and now Judge Thokozile Masipa must decide: Did Oscar Pistorius intentionally kill his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp? Was it murder? The judge has to answer several ...

Didier Drogba has announced his retirement from international football with the Ivory Coast. The 36-year-old, who last month rejoined Chelsea following a two year absence from the English Premier League with spells in China and Turkey, made his 104th ...

The Pentagon announced Friday that the US military has launched targeted airstrikes on forces of the Islamic State (IS) Sunni insurgent group by dropping two laser-guided bombs on its mobile artillery in northern Iraq. "The mission really is to protect ...

U.S. fighters dropped bombs on Islamic militants in Iraq on Friday, the Pentagon said, redeeming President Barack Obama's promise of military force to counter the advancing militants and confront the threat they pose to Iraqi civilians and Americans.

International opinion is changing on the siege of Gaza. More leaders are publicly questioning the wisdom of squeezing Gaza to the point where it explodes. This much can be read into Barack Obama's statement on Thursday that "long-term, there has to be a ...

Heavy rain disrupted the second day of the fourth Test between England and India at Old Trafford as the players were forced from the field 35 minutes after lunch. England were 237-6 when the rain came, 85 ahead of India after the tourists were bowled out for ...