SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - OkCupid, a top U.S. matchmaking website, intentionally mismatched users to test its technology, the IAC/InterActive Corp service said on Monday, weeks after Facebook Inc admitted to misleading users in a psychological study.

ST LARY PLAT D'ADET, France, (Reuters) - Poland's Rafal Majka won the 17th stage of the Tour de France, a 124.5-km trek from St Gaudens on Wednesday. Italian Vincenzo Nibali retained the overall leader's yellow jersey. (Reporting by Julien Pretot, ...

ST LARY PLAT D'ADET, France, (Reuters) - Poland's Rafal Majka won the 17th stage of the Tour de France, a 124.5-km trek from St Gaudens on Wednesday. Italian Vincenzo Nibali retained the overall leader's yellow jersey. (Reporting by Julien Pretot, ...

ST LARY PLAT D'ADET, France, (Reuters) - Poland's Rafal Majka won the 17th stage of the Tour de France, a 124.5-km trek from St Gaudens on Wednesday. Italian Vincenzo Nibali retained the overall leader's yellow jersey. (Reporting by Julien Pretot, ...

(Reuters) - Beleaguered England captain Alastair Cook should step down and take a break from the sport to avoid suffering from a damaging burnout that could end his career, a number of former England captains said on Tuesday. "For all the resolve... to ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - The death toll from a super typhoon, the strongest to hit southern China in 40 years, has risen to 33, state media said on Monday, after leaving at least 77 dead in the Philippines last week. Typhoon Rammasun struck the island province of ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - The death toll from a super typhoon, the strongest to hit southern China in 40 years, has risen to 33, state media said on Monday, after leaving at least 77 dead in the Philippines last week. Typhoon Rammasun struck the island province of ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's top share index fell on Monday, with tobacco stocks hit by a multi-billion-dollar fine against their U.S. rival RJ Reynolds and retailers slipping after a profit warning from Tesco. A 1 percent fall in shares of British American Tobacco ...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Pope Francis called for justice to be served in his native Argentina on Friday, the twentieth anniversary of the deadly bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish commuity centre that local courts blamed on Iran. Investigations into the attack ...

... * CEO says difficult to comment on any future impact on Russia business. * Shares fall as much as 3.5 pct. * Shares down on "unreasonable" earnings expectations, analysts say (Adds details on Russia operations, analyst comments). By Swetha Gopinath.

SEOUL, July 18 (Reuters) - U.S. crude oil futures rose in early Asian trade on Friday towards $104 a barrel, after jumping $2 in the previous session on news that a Malaysian airliner was shot down over eastern Ukraine. FUNDAMENTALS. * U.S. crude added ...

LONDON (Reuters) - India made slow progress on a bowler-friendly pitch on the first morning at Lord's on Thursday, reaching lunch at 73 for the loss of openers Murali Vijay and Shikhar Dhawan. Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni lost the toss and was asked to ...

KABUL (Reuters) - The euphoria over a U.S.-brokered deal between Afghanistan's rival presidential candidates at the weekend was a sign of how close some people believe the country came to a split along ethnic lines that could quickly turn violent.

HOYLAKE, England, July 15 (Reuters) - Tiger Woods's back operation in March robbed the former world number one of a quarter of the golf season but at least it has given him a fresh outlook on his career. The 14-times major champion will be making his ...

FARNBOROUGH England (Reuters) - Engine maker GE (GE.N) expects $30 billion (17.53 billion pounds) of orders for itself and joint venture CFM during the Farnborough Airshow and said it was the right decision that the A330neo plane launched by Airbus ...

FARNBOROUGH England (Reuters) - Engine maker GE (GE.N) expects $30 billion (17.53 billion pounds) of orders for itself and joint venture CFM during the Farnborough Airshow and said it was the right decision that the A330neo plane launched by Airbus ...

KABUL (Reuters) - The two rival candidates in Afghanistan's presidential election agreed to abide by the results of a U.N.-supervised recount of the entire poll to settle their dispute over the outcome, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said after talks with both ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese state media on Friday branded Apple Inc's iPhone a threat to national security because of the smartphone's ability to track and time-stamp user locations. A report by broadcaster CCTV criticised the iPhone's "Frequent Locations" ...

KIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukrainian forces regained more ground but sustained further casualties on Thursday in clashes with separatists, while two Western allies urged Russia's Vladimir Putin to exert more pressure on the rebels to find a ...

PRAGUE (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and foreign ministers from the six powers negotiating with Iran on its nuclear programme will travel to Vienna this weekend to help break the logjam in the talks, a senior Western official said on Thursday.