A Greek car ferry has been hired as last-minute accommodation for Libya's embattled parliament, which has fled the country's civil war to the small eastern town of Tobruk. The 17,000-ton Elyros liner has been deployed, complete with its Greek crew, as a ...

Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies has urged the people of Scotland to support the United Kingdom as "a positive example of social, economic and national union". The main pro-union parties have promised further devolution for Scotland if voters ...

Malaysia Ukraine Plane Dutch and Australian investigators examine pieces of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in the village of Rassipne, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine on July 25, 2014. Dmitry Lovetsky / AP ...

Apple is set to unveil the iPhone 6 (and if rumors are to be believed, its heavily anticipated iWatch) today, and you can watch a live stream of the event on Apple.com/live. Related: Check Out Our Live Blog of the Entire iPhone 6 Reveal Event. The event will ...

One day before he lays out his plans to the American public, President Obama on Tuesday will sit down with bipartisan leaders from Congress to explain his strategy for combating the Islamic extremists that have gained a foothold in Iraq and Syria. Play Video.

Srinagar: Flood waters continued to play havoc in Srinagar on Tuesday as authorities scrambled to rescue the marooned and tried to restore the telecommunications network that has been on the blink for the past three days. J&K rescue mission. The water ...

UN Special Representative on Children and Armed Conflict, Leila Zerrougui, warned that 700 children have been killed in Iraq – including those killed in summary executions – and more than 500 in Gaza since the beginning of the year. Zerrougui also noted ...

Surging levels of carbon dioxide sent greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to a new record in 2013, while oceans, which absorb the emissions, have become more acidic, the UN said on Tuesday. Smoke rises from chimneys of a factory in Haubourdin, ...

September 9, 2014: Indian army soldiers build a temporary bridge across the Tawi River after the existing bridge was damaged in the floods on the outskirts of Jammu, India. The flash floods, which began on Sept. 3, have killed hundreds, put more than half a ...

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere reached a record high in 2013 as increasing levels of man-made pollution transform the planet, the U.N. weather agency said Tuesday. The heat-trapping gas blamed for the largest share of global warming rose to ...

A Nobel Prize winning economist has warned Scots to be “afraid, be very afraid” if Scotland goes independent, claiming voters have been “badly misled” by Alex Salmond's rhetoric on Scottish currency post-independence. In an opinion piece in The New York ...

The Hague: The ill-fated Malaysia Airlines MH 17 plane was hit by numerous high-energy objects that “pierced the plane at high speed”, a preliminary report released by Dutch experts state on Tuesday. The report further states that there was no human or ...

Apple to launch big-screen iPhones and iWatch today A mystery event set in San Francisco has pumped up expectations for Apple to unveil a stunning newdevice to its line-up of iPhones, iPads, iPods, and Macintosh computers. Agence-France Presse | San ...

Cricket's governing body has banned number-one-ranked bowler Saeed Ajmal from bowling in international matches, after his action was found to be illegal. The 36-year-old player has been accused of chucking before. Saeed Ajmal. Cricket's governing body ...

The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere surged at its fastest rate in 30 years last year amid signs the world's oceans and forests might not be storing the planet-warming gas as readily as they have in the past. The rise in emissions of carbon dioxide, the ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- You might have heard something about an Apple iPhone event Tuesday. Here's the skinny: 1. Apple is hosting an event that starts at 10 a.m. Pacific time, 1 p.m Eastern, on Tuesday Sept. 9 at the Flint Performing Arts Center in Cupertino, ...

MOSCOW (AFP) - The Russian Defence Ministry said on Tuesday that its planes had not approached a Canadian frigate on a Nato mission in the Black Sea in an incident Ottawa denounced as "unnecessarily provocative". Moscow said the Sukhoi Su-24 ...

1. That's a picture of some straws, sent to me by a Scottish nationalist who thought I was clutching at them. Well, after today's TNS poll, showing Yes and No tied on 50 per cent, I no longer am. My analysis is here. I can still hardly believe it, but I think Scotland ...

SAN FRANCISCO: Sixty thousand people vied to attend the unveiling of Amazon's first smartphone in late June. If only the retailer could persuade those fans — or anyone, really — to actually buy the device. The Amazon Fire is threatening to become the ...

The UN representative is horrified by disregard to children's lives shown by the Islamic State and other extremist groups which are using children as suicide bombers. “I remain deeply concerned over recent reports of ISIS targeting minorities, including ...