LONDON (Reuters) - Manchester United's Michael Carrick will miss the start of season after undergoing surgery on a serious ankle injury, the club confirmed on Thursday. The 32-year-old England midfielder sustained an ankle ligament injury in training ...

MANILA—. A typhoon killed at least 10 people as it churned across the Philippines and shut down the capital, cutting power and prompting the evacuation of almost more than 370,000 people, rescue officials said Wednesday. The eye of Typhoon Rammasun, ...

GALLE (Reuters) - South Africa won the toss and decided to bat first on the first day of the first test against Sri Lanka on Wednesday. Hashim Amla will make his debut as test captain for South Africa in the first of the two matches in the series. For Sri Lanka ...

Nineteen people were killed on Tuesday and up to 120 injured when a Moscow underground train derailed between two stations during the morning rush hour, the Emergencies Ministry said. Russia's investigative committee said it was looking into the causes ...

(Reuters) - The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced nominees on Thursday for the Emmy Awards, television's highest honors. The Emmy winners will be announced at an Aug. 25 ceremony at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, which will be ...

HILLA, Iraq—. Iraqi security forces found 53 corpses, blindfolded and handcuffed, in a town south of Baghdad early Wednesday, local officials said. They said the bodies had been left in the mainly Shi'ite Muslim village of Khamissiya, about 15 miles southeast ...

HILLA, Iraq—. Iraqi security forces found 53 corpses, blindfolded and handcuffed, in a town south of Baghdad early Wednesday, local officials said. They said the bodies had been left in the mainly Shi'ite Muslim village of Khamissiya, about 15 miles southeast ...

More than 400,000 Muslims in the Chicago area will be recognizing the holy month of Ramadan beginning this weekend, according to the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago. The Islamic holy month, recognized worldwide by Muslims, means ...

General Motors Co on Monday recalled 3.36 million North American cars with ignition switches that can be jarred out of the “run” position, potentially affecting power steering, power brakes and air bags. The switch issue is similar to the defect linked to at least ...

General Motors Co on Monday recalled 3.36 million North American cars with ignition switches that can be jarred out of the “run” position, potentially affecting power steering, power brakes and air bags. The switch issue is similar to the defect linked to at least ...

Baghdad, Iraq—. Islamist rebel fighters captured two more Iraqi towns overnight in a relentless sweep south towards the capital Baghdad in a campaign to recreate a medieval caliphate carved out of fragmenting Iraq and Syria. U.S. President Barack Obama ...

Maya Angelou was a quotable-quote factory. Since her death on Wednesday, at the age of 86, her verbal nuggets have been cobbled into countless lists, in places like USA Today and Oprah's website, all of them hinting, in the words of BuzzFeed's ...

President Barack Obama has committed to withdrawing the last American troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2016, 15 years after we arrived there. So what do the critics say? We shouldn't be rushing to leave. The charge is that Obama is allowing the ...

ATHENS (Reuters) - European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said on Friday that Russia is Europe's main trading partner in natural gas and that there should be therefore no sanctions against Moscow's energy sector over the crisis in Ukraine.

ATHENS (Reuters) - European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said on Friday that Russia is Europe's main trading partner in natural gas and that there should be therefore no sanctions against Moscow's energy sector over the crisis in Ukraine.

Joe Biden's flaws are neither scarce nor secret. He often says indiscreet things, he inflates his importance, he loves to hear himself talk, and he's the funniest character The Onion has ever satirized. He's also 71 years old. But with all this, he'd be doing the ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Netflix Inc on Friday increased the price of its most popular video streaming plan by $1 a month to $9 for new customers in the United States, the company's first price hike in its largest market in three years. The movie and TV ...

Snapchat, the mobile app that rose to fame for its ability to let users send each other photos and videos that disappear after they're viewed, has added text messages and video chats to its lineup of ephemeral features. Now, Snapchat can be used to have text ...

Snapchat, the mobile app that rose to fame for its ability to let users send each other photos and videos that disappear after they're viewed, has added text messages and video chats to its lineup of ephemeral features. Now, Snapchat can be used to have text ...

RIGA (Reuters) - Latvia's defense minister said on Friday Russia was trying to stir unrest in the Baltic state by using "specially-trained, professional provocateurs" in the wake of its intervention in Ukraine. The Baltic countries Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, now ...