Nearly 7,000 Eritreans and Sudanese left Israel under pressure; some were imprisoned and tortured upon returning to their native countries, says Human Rights Watch report. By Ilan Lior | Sep. 10, 2014 | 4:23 AM ...

London: British Prime Minister David Cameron made a last minute appeal to Scottish voters on Wednesday to reject independence in a referendum next week as polls showed the campaign on a knife edge. Writing in the Daily Mail newspaper ahead of a ...

Hard to believe, but $30 billion is the value that was wiped off Apple's market value in the few hours after CEO Tim Cook unveiled the latest iPhones and the company's “next big thing,” its Apple Watch. At 1.58 pm on Tuesday, moments before the big Apple ...

Photo. An exhibit for the Minecraft game in New York last year. The goal of the game is to craft, or build, structures inside its 16-bit worlds.Credit Karsten Moran for The New York Times. Related Links. Disruptions: Minecraft, an Obsession and an Educational ...

BEIRUT — An explosion tore through a secret meeting of one of Syria's strongest and most enduring rebel groups on Tuesday, killing a dozen of its top leaders, including its head, and striking another blow against the forces seeking to topple President Bashar ...

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 09: Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) speaks about protecting students from sexual predators during a news conference on Capitol Hill, September 9, 2014 in Washington, DC. Sen Toomey and other members of Congress called on ...

Is no independent PC gaming phenomenon safe from the enticing billions of massive technology conglomerates? Oculus sold to Facebook, Amazon bought Twitch, and a new report in the Wall Street Journal claims that Microsoft is in the final stages of a deal ...

IRAQ-CONFLICT Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters target ISIS positions near Mosul in northern Iraq on Tuesday. JM LOPEZ / AFP / Getty Images. He'll reveal his choices to the nation Wednesday night. To understand why President Obama has such a tough ...

Within hours of Apple Inc. (AAPL:US) taking the wraps off its smartwatch, Electronic Arts Inc. (EA:US), the video-title publisher, is already working on ways to use the health-tracking features of the device to connect to games. The company is considering how ...

Months after closing its $7 billion deal for Nokia's handset business, Microsoft is eyeing another major acquisition. According to Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal, the company is near a deal to scoop up video game studio Mojang AB, creator of the hit ...

OTTAWA — Some Canadians, particularly Prime Minister Stephen Harper, have long been taken with the story of the disastrous attempt by the British explorer Sir John Franklin to sail and map the Northwest Passage. So it was not surprising that Mr. Harper ...

Apple managed to pack a lot into today's two-hour presentation, but viewers were left with some questions. And that's not even mentioning the scarf-wearing dude on stage. Here are the eight things Tim Cook still needs to answer about his company.

David Cameron may claim this offers Scotland 'the best of both worlds' if they vote No. But it could promise the worst of every world, with the rest of us forced to pick up the bills for Mr Salmond. With breathtaking legerdemain, Alex Salmond likens the Scottish ...

Analysis. Sangfroid: Barack Obama is projecting calm, but should we be alarmed? Photo: Evan Vucci. Barack Obama is in trouble for a comment months back, when he dismissed Islamic State as a 'JV' or junior varsity team, as in B-grade high school or ...

Youths who used cannabis daily before age 17 showed the worst effects in a new study. Photo / 123RF. Teen cannabis smokers are 60 per cent more likely to drop out of high school than their non-smoking peers, and are more likely to use other drugs and ...

PUTRAJAYA - Malaysia has vowed to unmask those responsible for "pressing the button" to shoot down Malaysia Airlines' Flight MH17, and bring the perpetrators to justice. Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said "somebody has to be responsible ...

On Aug. 5, 1997, a legal adviser for Canada's Foreign Affairs Department signed a two-page document. Three days later, the British High Commissioner to Canada did the same. The document specified what would happen if searchers ever discovered the ...

On Aug. 5, 1997, a legal adviser for Canada's Foreign Affairs Department signed a two-page document. Three days later, the British High Commissioner to Canada did the same. The document specified what would happen if searchers ever discovered the ...

ERBIL, Iraq - Masrour Barzani is the head of Kurdish intelligence service, which is helping pick the targets for U.S. pilots in support of Kurdish forces on the ground. 14 Photos. Peshmerga fighters of Iraq. Militias battle ISIS in Iraqi Kurdistan. The U.S airstrikes ...

When the FCC crafted its first set of net neutrality rules, it treated the mobile internet as a young space that needed less regulation to thrive; it only asked that carriers disclose what they were doing and avoid blocking apps. That directive may have been fine in ...