Marin Cilic toppled sixth-seeded Czech Tomas Berdych 6-2, 6-4, 7-6 (7/4) on Thursday to reach the US Open semi-finals. Marin Cilic of Croatia celebrates his win over Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic during their 2014 US Open men's quarterfinal ...

In introducing its new Lumia phones at the IFA trade show in Berlin today, Microsoft stressed camera applications and affordability as it tried to position them against Android phones and iPhone. In fact, Chris Weber, Microsoft Corporate Vice President for ...

New Chelsea signing Loic Remy grabbed the only goal as France squeezed past 2010 world champions Spain 1-0 in a friendly at the Stade de France on Thursday. The second-half substitute netted in spectacular style in the 72nd minute, pouncing on a pass ...

Fans and colleagues everywhere were devastated to hear the news on Thursday that Joan Rivers had died at age 81. But, as any true fan of the witty comedienne would know, she wasn't one for melancholy. (In her statement announcing her mother's death, ...

Rick Sacra, the third American missionary worker infected with Ebola in West Africa, is being flown to The Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Neb., for treatment, according to SIM, the international Christian aid organization with which he was working. Sacra ...

A PENSIONER was beheaded in broad daylight in a suburban back garden, sparking a police operation in which a suspect was tasered. Palmira Silva, 82, who is believed to be of Italian descent, was found dead outside a house in Edmonton, north London, ...

Weighing in at 130,000 pounds, 30 feet tall and 85 feet long, ladies and gentlemen you're heavyweight champion of the dinosaur world: the Dreadnoughtus. An empty 737 airplane weighs 93,000 pounds. The fossilized remains of this colossal creature were ...

A few months ago I wrote from eastern Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin might have blinked when he appeared to do an unexpected volte-face and called for an end to the violence there. I was wrong. Putin did not blink. What the Russian leader ...

Joan Rivers, the acerbic stand-up comic and television host who blazed a trail at a time when comedy was all but off-limits to women, died in hospital in New York on Thursday. She was 81. The award-winning star had been in Mount Sinai Hospital since ...

The press have been discussing the current outbreak of Ebola in West Africa. They stress that it is an awful way to die, that there is no cure, and that health workers are dying despite apparently taking all necessary precautions. More learned writers have been ...

NATO leaders on Thursday (Sep 4) accused Russia of failing to take "a single step towards peace" in Ukraine even as President Petro Poroshenko voiced "careful optimism" about forging a ceasefire with pro-Moscow rebels. PHOTOS. (L to R): France's ...

A woman shows the new Lumia 830 smart phone during a Microsoft Nokia presentation event at the consumer electronic fair IFA in Berlin, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. Frank Jordans and Anick Jesdanun, Associated Press. September 4, 2014 | Updated: ...

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(Adds name of victim, details). LONDON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - An elderly woman was found beheaded at a house in a north London suburb on Thursday, British media reported, in an incident that police said did not appear to be terrorist related. Officers said they ...

Joan Rivers died on Thursday at the age of 81 and fans were quick to tweet messages of sorrow. Jimmy Kimmel wrote on his Twitter account, 'We lost a great one in @Joan_Rivers - she was funny all the way to the end.' Another late night talk show host, Seth ...

It would be unfair to say that Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, wants to print enough money to buy Holland. The €750bn or so expansion of the ECB's balance sheet that he indicated he would like – to take it back to its size of early 2012 ...

WASHINGTON — Google Inc has agreed to refund at least US$19 million to parents who were unfairly billed for charges racked up by children playing video games such as Ice Age Village and Air Penguins on smartphones and tablets. Children sometimes ...

Although his background was suppressed while he was captive, after his murder, news reports mournfully acknowledged that Steven Sotloff, a”h, was Jewish — an American raised in Miami who attended a Reform day school and made aliyah in 2005.

Australia have accused South Africa of being unimaginative and predictable, setting the scene for another explosive clash between the bitter rivals in Saturday's one-day tri-series final in Harare. There's no love lost between the two teams after Australia ...

Residents in Gaza recall traumatic arrests and killings by the Israeli army as they begin to rebuild their lives and homes. Palestinians walk through an area of destruction on August 15, 2014 in Khuza'a. Palestinians assess damage to buildings in the border ...