NEW DELHI: As it celebrates its eighth anniversary, it appears that Twitter wants to offer more information to its users about how they use the social network and the way their followers engage with them. The popular social network has started sending a ...

PERTH: Spotter planes spent a second fruitless day scouring a remote stretch of the Indian Ocean for wreckage from a Malaysian jet on Friday, as Chinese relatives of the missing passengers clashed with Malaysian officials. Australian and US military aircraft ...

NOVOOZERNE: Russian forces seized control of a second Ukrainian navy base in western Crimea on Wednesday, AFP reporters saw, hours after capturing the main navy headquarters in Sevastopol. Some 50 Ukrainian servicemen were seen filing out of the ...

SEVASTOPOL: Several men in plain clothes entered a building at the Ukrainian naval headquarters in the Crimean port of Sevastopol on Wednesday and were in talks with servicemen there, a Ukrainian naval spokesman said. The spokesman said there had ...

WASHINGTON: Google reportedly prevented Motorola from building a phone that integrated tightly with Google's other services. While Motorola was keen on working with Google's natural language processing group to improve voice-command recognition in ...

WASHINGTON: A 46-year-old woman in the US has likely acquired HIV from her female partner in a rare case of female-to-female sexual transmission of the deadly AIDS virus, scientists say. The woman "likely" acquired the virus during a six-month ...

KHARKIV, Ukraine: Two people were killed in clashes that broke out between pro-Moscow and pro-Kiev supporters in Ukraine's Russian-speaking city of Kharkiv, police said on Saturday, the second such deadly incident in as many days in the country's east.

WASHINGTON: The United States will give up its role overseeing the system of Web addresses and domain names that form the basic plumbing of the internet, turning it over in 2015 to an international group whose structure and administration will be ...

In what can be termed as a significant discovery in the field of HIV/AIDS prevention, a vaginal gel has been developed that, if applied as long as three hours after sex, can protect monkeys from infection. The gel has raltegravir, an FDA-approved anti-retroviral ...

LONDON: US secretary of state John Kerry will seek assurances from Russia at talks in London on Friday that it will not try to annex Crimea and will address concerns over Ukraine through negotiation, a senior state department official said. Kerry and Russian ...

MAIDUGURI (Nigeria): Suspected Islamic militants struck the northern city of Maiduguri on Friday morning, attacking the main military barracks and causing panicked residents to flee. Children walking to school when the shooting erupted cried in fear and ...

KANO, Nigeria: Gunmen in northwest Nigeria's Katsina state killed 69 people in attacks on four villages, a local lawmaker told AFP on Thursday, amid rising communal tension in the region. "So far, 69 bodies have been recovered from the attacks carried out ...

ISTANBUL: Turkish riot police fired tear gas at protesters crowded outside an Istanbul hospital on Tuesday following the death of a teenage boy wounded in mass anti-government demonstrations last year. Police used the gas after several dozen protesters ...

MASNA, Lebanon: Rebels in Syria freed more than a dozen Greek Orthodox nuns on Monday, ending their four-month captivity in exchange for Syrian authorities releasing dozens of female prisoners. The release of the nuns and their helpers, 16 women in all ...

WASHINGTON: U.S President Barack Obama was rebuffed yet again by Russian President Vladimir Putin during a conciliatory one-hour phone call on Thursday in which the American side proposed ways to resolve the Ukraine fracas diplomatically if Russia ...

NEW DELHI: Widespread anger is palpable among large sections of naval officers as yet another accident claimed the life of an outstanding officer, even as a dirty war has broken out among senior admirals with lobbies backing them to canvass for the post of ...

RIYADH: A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced three men to death and jailed two others for up to 17 years for their part in a series of militant attacks including the deadly bombing of a foreign housing compound in 2003, state news agency SPA reported.

NEW DELHI: Google is celebrating the International Women's day with an interactive doodle on its home page that will be displayed starting March 7 till March 9. Today's doodle is Google's eighth doodle on International Women's Day. The company first ...

SEOUL: North Korea, accused of human rights violations, elects its largely symbolic parliament this weekend, with leader Kim Jong-un, the third in his family dynasty to rule the totalitarian state, running unopposed in a legendary mountain district. State news ...

NEW DELHI: Eating a diet rich in animal proteins - both meat and dairy products - during middle ages causes as much risk of cancer as smoking, a new study has found. This startling result emerges from a two decade long study of over six thousand people ...