LONDON — The Kremlin's worst clash with the West since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union has accelerated the outflow of two of Russia's most prized assets: money and brains. Vladimir Putin's annexation of Crimea and support for rebels accused of ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) Sri Lanka got off to a solid but cautious start in the second test against Pakistan, moving to 69-0 at lunch on the opening day Thursday. Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews won the toss and elected to bat on a Sinhalese Sports Club ...

CAIRO, Egypt (AFP) — A new ceasefire in Gaza will last five days, said senior Palestinian negotiator Azzam al-Ahmed yesterday after he and other officials initially spoke of another 72-hour lull. "It will last for five days," he said, adding more time was needed ...

image ISLAMABAD: Islamabad braced for political unrest Thursday as two opposition leaders vowed to defy a court order and march on the city for a major protest aimed at bringing down the government. Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan and populist ...

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - AUGUST 14: (SOUTH KOREA OUT) In this handout image provided by the Committee for the 2014 Papal Visit to Korea, South Koreans cheer as motorcades with Pope Francis onboard goes by after arriving on August 14, 2014 in ...

Iraqi families displaced by the violence in their country receive aid from a Chaldean Catholic Church truck in Beirut. Picture: Mohamed Azakir. Washington/Edgartown, Massachusetts - A US mission to evacuate Iraqi civilians trapped on a mountain by Sunni ...

Toss: Sri Lanka won the toss and opted to bat in Mahela Jayawardene's farewell Test. ALSO SEE Live Scorecard. Teams: Live Score, 2nd Test: Solid start by Lankan openers. Openers Silva and Tharanga raised a half-century stand in 17 overs after Pakistan ...

A Russian convoy, carrying what Moscow says is humanitarian aid, has resumed its journey toward war-torn eastern Ukraine. The convoy of nearly 300 trucks left the southwestern Russian town of Voronezh Thursday, where it had stalled as controversy ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) presidential candidate Eduardo Campos, who was making his first run for the presidency, died Wednesday in a plane crash. A lifelong socialist, Campos was born on Aug. 10, 1965 in ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Pope Francis' choice of wheels during his five-day South Korean visit has surprised many in this painfully self-conscious country, where big-shots rarely hit the streets in anything but expensive luxury cars. After his arrival ...

A United States mission to evacuate Iraqi civilians trapped on a mountain by Sunni militant fighters is far less likely after a US assessment team sent there on Wednesday found the humanitarian situation not as grave as expected, the Pentagon said. A team of ...

The sun sets over the northern Gaza Strip as seen from the Israeli border August 9, 2014. Cairo, Egypt: Israel and the Palestinians agreed on Wednesday to extend a Gaza truce by five days minutes before an earlier ceasefire was set to expire, a Palestinian ...

The late Lauren Bacall and I lunched together at the Caprice in St James's in the Eighties, when she was in town to make a Ruth Rendell thriller, Tree of Hands. “I always choose the restaurant when I do interviews,” she briskly informed me. “Then I know that ...

The casts of Aladdin — both the 1992 film and the current Broadway hit — are honouring Robin Williams, who played the manic, fast-talking, unforgettable Genie. Scot Weinger, who played Aladdin in the animated film, said on Wednesday that working with ...

A Russian aid convoy resumed its travels toward Ukraine early Thursday and took the road leading south toward the rebel-held city of Luhansk. The convoy of about 262 vehicles had been parked at a military depot in the southern Russian city of Voronezh ...

Police in Ferguson, Missouri, fired several rounds of tear gas to disperse protesters late last night, on the fourth night of demonstrations over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a police officer. Clouds of smoke lingered above an area hit with ...

Violence erupted in the streets of Ferguson, Mo. for a fourth straight night Wednesday, with police firing smoke bombs and tear gas at demonstrators and some people lobbing Molotov cocktails. Racial unrest lingers in the St. Louis suburb following a weekend ...

Iran's president has heaped praised upon Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian professor at Stanford University who has become the first woman to win the prestigious Fields Medal, also known as the “Nobel Prize of mathematics.” “I congratulate you on winning the ...

Israel and the Islamist militant group Hamas have agreed a new five-day truce in the Gaza Strip. Despite a shaky start, a few hours after it came into force, the latest ceasefire appeared to be holding. Israelische Soldaten Nahostkonflikt 13.8.2014. The latest ...

A snappy YouTube video marking India's Independence Day relives the country's modern history in just over a minute – but the film's jaunty tone belies heightened tensions in South Asia. Relating India's post-colonial past in the form of an extended Facebook ...