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SUGIHWARAS, Indonesia - A powerful volcanic eruption on Indonesia's most populous island blasted ash and debris 18 kilometres (12 miles) into the air Friday, killing three people and forcing authorities to evacuate more than 100,000 and close seven ...

You hate everything about love and everyone experiencing it. In extreme cases, you even start to hate yourself for a moment, wondering why you don't have that special someone in your life for the umpteenth Valentine's Day in a row. Even celebrities like Bow ...

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ROME (Reuters) - Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has accepted the resignation of outgoing Prime Minister Enrico Letta and will immediately begin formal consultations to form a new government and complete them by Saturday, a statement from ...

Two people died and 100,000 were evacuated after a volcano on the island of Java erupted, pouring out rock, gas and thick ash across one of Indonesia's most densely populated regions. Millions of cubic meters of debris rose into the atmosphere, forming a ...

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese security forces on Friday fatally shot eight people who attacked police with machetes and drove cars that carried gas cylinders they detonated as bombs in the restive western Xinjiang region, state media said. Three other assailants ...

Beijing: US Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday urged that any moves by Beijing to establish a new air defence identification zone be "done in an open, transparent way". "We urged our friends in China to adhere to the highest standards of notice, ...

Indonesia's volcano monitoring agency urged about 200-thousand people living in 36 villages within 6 miles of the crater to leave their homes. There was no immediate word on any casualties. Booms from the mountain could be heard 80 miles away in ...

PANMUNJOM, SOUTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 14: In this handout image provided by South Korean Unification Ministry, Kim Kyou-Hyun (R), the head of South Korea's high-level delegation shakes hands with his North Korean counterpart Won Tong-Yon (L) ...

Facebook has reportedly announced that its U.S. users will now have the "other" option to select a custom gender for their Timeline profiles. Following Facebook's announcement, users will be able to choose from ten gender options such as "cisgender," ...

JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius expressed deep regret Friday for killing his girlfriend, one year after he allegedly shot her dead at his Pretoria home. "No words can adequately capture my feelings about the ...

Rakuten president Hiroshi Mikitani and Viber CEO Talmon Marco Rakuten president Hiroshi Mikitani (left) and Viber CEO Talmon Marco. Photograph: Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty. Japanese e-commerce firm Rakuten, controlled by the billionaire Hiroshi ...

Emergency teams rescued a further 32 people from floods in Surrey during a one-day respite from stormy weather, but the Thames area is again on alert for more rain, Surrey Police has said. Nearly 900 people have been rescued in the county since Sunday.

Penguin India has defended its decision to withdraw Wendy Doniger's The Hindus from sale, saying a specific section of India's penal code is making it "increasingly difficult for any Indian publisher to uphold international standards of free expression without ...

Rakuten has appointed messaging and VoIP company Viber for US$900 million. This is its latest move into the digital content space, following its acquisitions of Kobo, Wuaki.tv, and Viki. Viber currently has a global user base of 300 million registered users.

PRETORIA, South Africa - Oscar Pistorius has spoken of his grief in a rare public statement on the first anniversary of the day he fatally shot his girlfriend. Dubbed 'Blade Runner' because of his prosthetic legs, the double-amputee Paralympian made the ...

BEIJING--China's Foreign Ministry pushed back against U.S. pressure on North Korea and the disputed South China Sea on Feb. 14, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Beijing for high-level meetings. Speaking in Seoul before leaving for Beijing, ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia—At least two people were killed after a volcano on Indonesia's main island of Java staged a major eruption, forcing 100,000 into shelters and disrupting air travel, disaster officials said Friday. Ashfall from Mount Kelud, which erupted ...

Google is inviting users to take a bite out of Valentine's Day by creating their own box of chocolates via an interactive Google Doodle. The stylised Google logo on the search giant's homepage features a couple with a heart between them. A 'play' button sits ...