Portugal have often done well in international tournaments but have never won one, but with Cristiano Ronaldo at his peak and a handful of very good players backing up the superstar they are credible outsiders at Brazil 2014. Portugal will feel at home in ...

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk (second left), Ukrainian Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Yuriy Prodan (left), head of Ukrainian Naftogaz state oil and gas firm Andriy Kobolev (third left), EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger (centre) ...

Russian ace Maria Sharapova battled back from one game from defeat to beat Spain's Garbine Muguruza 1-6, 7-5, 6-1 in the quarterfinals to reach the French Open semi-finals. The former world number one will now face Canadian Eugenie Bouchard, who ...

Twenty-five years ago, Wang Nan took his camera and headed out to Beijing's Tiananmen Square, where tens of thousands of people had gathered calling for democratic reforms. The 19-year-old told a friend he wanted to record history. Before he left his ...

Maya Angelou was an American author and poet, who passed away on May 28, 2014. She died at the age of 86 in North Carolina. Just last year, she was honored at the National Book Awards ceremony for her service to the literary community. A highly ...

vietname-china-faceoff-south-china-sea This photograph taken from a Vietnam Coast Guard ship on May 14, 2014, shows a China Coast Guard ship (left) blocking the way of a Vietnam Coast Guard ship near the site of a Chinese drilling oil rig being installed ...

Thailand's military tightened its grip on power on Sunday as it moved to douse smouldering protests fuelled by social media and rally commercial agencies and business to revitalise the country's battered economy. The military overthrew the government on ...

Members of the Bosnian armed forces use an inflatable boat during an operation to evacuate residents from homes surrounded by flood waters in the village of Topcic Polje, near the central Bosnian town of Zenica. AFP. Thousands crammed into boats and ...

Hundreds more were still believed to be trapped in the mine in Soma, around 120 km (75 miles) northeast of the Aegean coastal city of Izmir, and the death toll could rise further, Taner Yildiz told reporters at the scene. (Reporting by Yesim Dikmen; Writing by ...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has criticized the United States for its attempts to create rift between Iran and Pakistan. During a meeting with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Khamenei stressed that the relations between the two neighbourly ...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has criticized the United States for its attempts to create rift between Iran and Pakistan. During a meeting with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Khamenei stressed that the relations between the two neighbourly ...

Is it time to panic? Yes. Looks like humanity is fast heading to a self-created antediluvian era with medicines becoming ineffective against diseases. According to World Health Organisation's (WHO) first global report on the subject, resistance to antibiotics is a ...

Is it time to panic? Yes. Looks like humanity is fast heading to a self-created antediluvian era with medicines becoming ineffective against diseases. According to World Health Organisation's (WHO) first global report on the subject, resistance to antibiotics is a ...

Australia today said the search for the crashed Malaysian jet was now entering a new phase and would transition over the coming days to an intensified undersea exploration, after weeks of a fruitless aerial hunt. Autonomous underwater vehicle Bluefin 21, ...

London: Manchester City beat Crystal Palace two nil on Sunday to move within three points of English Premier League leaders Liverpool who lost their match to Chelsea. Edin Dzeko scored the first goal of a Yaya Toure cross to allow City to take an early lead ...

The stalemate in finding a successor to Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai may drag for at least two more months now as none of the candidates have got the required 50% votes in the preliminary results announced on Saturday evening. On Saturday ...

Indian-origin social chief of Google and creator of Google+, Vivek Gundotra, has reportedly announced that he is leaving the company. While it remains unclear as to where he is headed for, after an eight year long stint as Google chief, his resignation is sure ...

Indian-origin social chief of Google and creator of Google+, Vivek Gundotra, has reportedly announced that he is leaving the company. While it remains unclear as to where he is headed for, after an eight year long stint as Google chief, his resignation is sure ...

Indian-origin social chief of Google and creator of Google+, Vivek Gundotra, has reportedly announced that he is leaving the company. While it remains unclear as to where he is headed for, after an eight year long stint as Google chief, his resignation is sure ...

Indian-origin social chief of Google and creator of Google+, Vivek Gundotra, has reportedly announced that he is leaving the company. While it remains unclear as to where he is headed for, after an eight year long stint as Google chief, his resignation is sure ...