It was a miracle that Joan Rivers could move her mouth after years of plastic surgery, and when she did, she kept the "bleep" button in business. The tributes - and wisecracks in her memory - flowed thick and fast on Friday after her passing in the US, a week ...

The European Central Bank drove deposit rates even further into negative territory and announced a number of additional "unconventional" monetary policy tools, in the hope of stimulating the struggling eurozone economy. ECB president Mario Draghi's ...

Australia have accused South Africa of being unimaginative and predictable, setting the scene for another explosive clash between the bitter rivals in Saturday's one-day tri-series final in Harare. There's no love lost between the two teams after Australia ...

LOME, Togo- Fearful Togo officials have asked the Confederation of African Football to move a game out of Ebola-affected Guinea as the outbreak of the deadly disease threatens to badly disrupt the African Cup's final qualifying round. Games involving Sierra ...

LOME, Togo- Fearful Togo officials have asked the Confederation of African Football to move a game out of Ebola-affected Guinea as the outbreak of the deadly disease threatens to badly disrupt the African Cup's final qualifying round. Games involving Sierra ...

LOME, Togo- Fearful Togo officials have asked the Confederation of African Football to move a game out of Ebola-affected Guinea as the outbreak of the deadly disease threatens to badly disrupt the African Cup's final qualifying round. Games involving Sierra ...

LOME, Togo- Fearful Togo officials have asked the Confederation of African Football to move a game out of Ebola-affected Guinea as the outbreak of the deadly disease threatens to badly disrupt the African Cup's final qualifying round. Games involving Sierra ...

Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts: President Barack Obama gave full US support for Iraq's president to form a new government hours after embattled Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki rejected stepping aside for a successor. Iraqi President Fouad Masoum's ...

Giving all-out support to Bihar to tackle any emergency due to the impending Kosi floods, the Centre on Sunday rushed essential supplies, relief teams and other aid to the state and put on standby several aircraft to handle any eventuality. Cabinet Secretary ...

"How many more innocent women and children will be killed in Gaza before sanctions are imposed on Israel?" Photo: AFP. With yet another United Nations shelter struck by Israeli shelling and the UN asserting it had informed Israel no less than 17 times that ...

A Palestinian boy carries mattresses as he flees the family house. Photo: AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis. Nissana Sukar picked her way carefully over the mountain of twisted metal, smashed concrete and rubble that once was the apartment block next to her ...

Joko Widodo, the former governor of Jakarta, has been formally announced as the victor of the Indonesia presidential campaign, having defeated his rival Prabowo Subianto by about 8 million votes of the 133 million cast. The result has seemed obvious for ...

Former army strongman Prabowo Subianto claims to have ''withdrawn'' from the presidential race on the day it was to be announced that he had lost. In an extraordinary statement in his campaign headquarters on Tuesday afternoon, Mr Prabowo said he ...

Anti-cancer drugs can wake up hidden reservoirs of HIV in patients, according to researchers who say the results provide a hint that curing AIDS might some day be possible. The finding on the anti-cancer drug Romidepsin, presented at the International AIDS ...

India are determined England captain Alastair Cook remains on the defensive in the first Test at Nottingham's Trent Bridge starting on Wednesday.Cook, upon whose leadership officials have staked plenty after ditching former star batsman Kevin Pietersen ...

Ukraine has demanded the return of its combat dolphins, whIch have been in Russian captivity since February. Russian forces took the highly trained dolphins from a secret Ukrainian program in Sevastapol when it annexed Crimea. ''Combat dolphins are ...

Ukraine has demanded the return of its combat dolphins, whIch have been in Russian captivity since February. Russian forces took the highly trained dolphins from a secret Ukrainian program in Sevastapol when it annexed Crimea. ''Combat dolphins are ...

Excited fans are putting themselves and riders at risk in an attempt to capture the ultimate cycling 'selfie' as the Tour de France gets going in Yorkshire. 07/07/14. Return to video. Copy video link. Copy the text below to get a direct link to this video: Copy video ...

Ceremony close ... Shakira to perform for a third time at the FIFA World Cup. Photo: AP. Columbian pop star Shakira is poised to score a FIFA World Cup hat-trick since announcing that she will perform before the final match in Rio de Janeiro on July 13.

Ceremony close ... Shakira to perform for a third time at the FIFA World Cup. Photo: AP. Columbian pop star Shakira is poised to score a FIFA World Cup hat-trick since announcing that she will perform before the final match in Rio de Janeiro on July 13.