BERNE: Barcelona have been given a transfer ban for two consecutive windows and fined 450,000 Swiss francs (RM1.66mil) for breaching rules on the international transfer of foreign under-18 players, FIFA said on Wednesday. The Spanish federation ...

Muslim cleric Abubakar Shariff speaks during an interview in Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa in this October 5, 2013 file photograph. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya/Files. MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Two prominent Kenyan Muslim rights groups threatened on ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union formally launched a peacekeeping force for Central African Republic on Tuesday, overcoming delays due to shortages of soldiers and equipment thanks to last-minute offers of help from EU governments.

SIMFEROPOL, Crimea (Reuters) - Russia will make Crimea a special economic zone offering tax breaks and reduced bureaucracy to attract investors, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday. "Our aim is to make the peninsula as attractive as ...

SIMFEROPOL, Crimea (Reuters) - Russia will make Crimea a special economic zone offering tax breaks and reduced bureaucracy to attract investors, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday. "Our aim is to make the peninsula as attractive as ...

SIMFEROPOL, Crimea (Reuters) - Russia will make Crimea a special economic zone offering tax breaks and reduced bureaucracy to attract investors, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday. "Our aim is to make the peninsula as attractive as ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia will send a team to Perth to work with Australia and the other countries involved in the intensive search and recovery operations for the missing MH370 craft. In a statement here, the Transport Ministry said the team was made up of ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian accused Ukraine on Wednesday of violating international conventions and putting lives at risk by preventing Russian pilots and crew disembarking after passenger flights to Kiev. Citing information from Russian carrier Aeroflot, ...

After 10 years of marriage, Iron Man actress Gwyneth Paltrow and her husband Chris Martin of Coldplay have decided to go their separate ways. Now, who saw that coming? There are rumours that Paltrow's highly-publicised Vanity Fair tell-all article – which ...

KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 12 aircraft are involved in the search on Wednesday for a lost Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight that is believed to have gone down in the southern Indian Ocean. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said in a statement ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has instructed the police to make a thorough probe into the mysterious disappearance of flight MH370. “Nothing but a thorough investigation on the plane will be acceptable,” the Prime Minister said. “While the ...

SEPANG: Malaysia Airlines concluded that all 239 people on board Flight MH370 perished from evidence given to it by the Government on the missing aircraft. MAS chairman Tan Sri Md Nor Md Yusof said the announcement by Prime Minister Datuk Seri ...

SIMFEROPOL, Crimea (Reuters) - Crimea's indigenous Tatars are considering their own referendum on whether to be part of Ukraine or Russia, the leader of the Muslim minority said on Tuesday, in a challenge to Moscow that could further destabilise the ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian authorities said a U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon, the most advanced search aircraft in the world, had been unable to find objects spotted earlier on Monday by a Chinese aircraft hunting for clues to the missing Malaysia jet in the ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - If Russia has occupied and annexed Crimea, it's the European Union's fault for offering closer ties with Ukraine, according to Eurosceptical parties of the far left and nationalist right. European governments and mainstream politicians ...

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Four men were found guilty on Thursday of the gang-rape of a photojournalist last year in Mumbai, an attack that sparked street protests in the city and raised fresh questions about attitudes to women in the world's largest ...

PROJECT MORPHEUS: Sony Corp unveiled a prototype for a new virtual reality headset accessory for its Playstation 4 games console on Tuesday at the annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, as it bids to further acceptance of the concept.

PETALING JAYA: Support is pouring in for the daughter of missing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370 captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah who is reported to have flown back to Malaysia to be with her distraught family. According to a report on an Australian news ...

SEPANG: The number of countries involved in the search and rescue operations for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has increased from 14 to 26, said the Transport Ministry. In a press statement issued yesterday, the ministry said the countries were Malaysia, ...

PETALING JAYA: The daughter of MH370 flight captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah flew back to Malaysia from Australia where she has lived since 2010, according to a report in mirror.com.uk. Aishah Zaharie has gone back to be with her family, said an Australian ...