Israel's military says it has carried out air strikes in the Gaza Strip in response to fresh rocket fire, hours before a ceasefire was set to expire. "Terror targets" were hit after three rockets were fired towards the towns of Beersheba and Netivot, officials said.

Attacking the government over calling off talks with Pakistan, Congress today said it was first in a "sonorous slumber" and then resorted to "kneejerk reaction" and wondered why the decision was taken first to hold foreign secretary-level talks. Addressing a ...

The death toll from Ebola's devastation in West Africa has topped 1,200, even as the World Health Organization said Tuesday it sees some encouraging signs in the fight to contain the virus. From Thursday through Saturday, WHO recorded 113 new cases ...

Thirteen years after BHP and Billiton merged mining investors are in a spin. The world's largest mining company is creating a separate business for some of its operations, including manganese, nickel and aluminium. The spin-off—temporarily called ...

The Islamic State has targeted key energy infrastructure in Iraq, including Mosul Dam, which was recaptured yesterday by Kurdish and Iraqi forces backed by US airstrikes. By Lydia Tomkiw, Staff writer August 19, 2014. close. A man stands on the banks of the ...

The Islamic State has targeted key energy infrastructure in Iraq, including Mosul Dam, which was recaptured yesterday by Kurdish and Iraqi forces backed by US airstrikes. By Lydia Tomkiw, Staff writer August 19, 2014. close. A man stands on the banks of the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Swift is saying goodbye to country music, for now: The singer says she's releasing her first full-length pop album on Oct. 27. The 24-year-old revealed in a livestream via Yahoo! on Monday that "1989," named for her birth year, is her ...

Investors looking for details on BHP Billiton's mega "demerger" were left scrambling Tuesday as the company's website crashed. The announcement of the split and annual earnings came 45 minutes later than markets expected, and could still not be viewed ...

Liberia's information minister said on Tuesday that all of the suspected Ebola patients who fled quarantine centers this past weekend have been located. “We are glad to confirm that all of the 17 individuals have been accounted for and have now been ...

Kurdish and Iraqi forces regained control of the largest part of the strategic Mosul Dam and appeared to have beaten back much of the Islamic State. What's next for this coalition? Truman National Security fellow Mike Lyons joins Simon Constable on the ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli military began targeting sites in Gaza after rockets were fired from the coastal strip on the southern Israeli city of Beersheba in violation of a cease-fire extension. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly also ...

Hollywood star Vin Diesel has challenged Russian President Vladimir Putin to pour a bucket of ice cubes over his head, as part of a global action to raise awareness for a degenerative motor neuron disease.

KIEV, August 19./ITAR-TASS/. Russia remained the largest market for Ukrainian goods in the first six months of 2014, according to a report released by Ukraine's State Statistics Committee on Tuesday. The report shows that Kiev reduced exports to Russia by ...

When the National Guard arrived in Oxford, Miss., in Little Rock, in Detroit, Los Angeles and New Orleans, its presence and the message that traveled with it was instantly clear. “Whether it was the Vietnam riots, the civil rights era, it made an impression when ...

BARCELONA Aug 19 (Reuters) - Controversial striker Luis Suarez said he was "very depressed" after the World Cup biting incident that led to the Uruguay international being initially banned from all soccer activities for four months. Suarez can now train with ...

JERUSALEM — Rockets fired from Gaza landed in Israel Tuesday afternoon, breaking a five-day cease-fire between Israel and Hamas militants hours before it was set to expire, the Israeli military said. The Israel Defense Force said the rockets landed in open ...

The Islamic State (IS), formerly known as ISIL/ISIS, has denounced what it calls the Kurdish-Crusader alliance in an English language version of their statement on the recent conflicts with Iraqi security forces and soldiers of the Kurdish peshmerga. A post on ...

Melbourne - BHP Billiton announced what's poised to be the biggest spinoff in the mining industry, separating aluminum, coal and silver assets to create a company valued at about $15 billion (R159 billion) after it begins trading next year. The new unit, to be ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – The situation in Ferguson, Missouri, has gone back and forth like an accordion. After protests erupted over the shooting death of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown at the hands of an undisclosed police officer and various days and ...

United Nations, Aug 19 (IANS/WAM) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has renewed the world body's commitment to life-saving relief efforts, and called for honouring the "heroic aid workers", who rush bravely to help people in need, and those who died ...