Kunming, China - Chinese state television on Tuesday broadcast an interview with a police officer said to have shot five knife-wielding thugs who killed and injured scores of people in a railway station attack in Kunming. Security remained tight and residents ...

Apple announced that the chief finance officer who served during the company's meteoric rise over the past decade is retiring later this year. PHOTOS. Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer (AFP/Jim Watson). Enlarge; Caption. SAN FRANCISCO: ...

Much applause and laughter from a receptive D.C. audience as Netanyahu takes the stage at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee annual policy conference. Mar. 4, 2014 | 8:44 PM. Tweet. Netanyahu, Wordle-fied. A visualization of Netanyahu's ...

Salvatore Caruso, who, at 108, is the second oldest man in Italy. Like many others in the small Italian town of Molochio, with one of the highest prevalence of centenarians in the world, Salvatore maintained a low-protein, plant-based diet for the majority of his ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The audience that tuned in to watch ABC's live telecast of the Oscars hosted by Ellen DeGeneres on Sunday was the show's highest in 14 years after ratings were upwardly revised. Nielsen ratings data on Tuesday showed that the ...

Ellen DeGeneres shattered records Sunday night, March 2, when the A-list-filled selfie she took during the Oscars ceremony got retweeted over three million times. But celebrity selfies are hardly new, and if anything, are the norm. We've gone so far as to ...

It replaces Tokyo, which was number one for years but has dropped down to joint sixth in the annual rankings compiled by researchers at the Economist Intelligence Unit. The reasons for Singapore's rise were its strong currency, the high price of utilities and ...

Volvo, along with Ferrari and Mercedes, will be among the first to fit Apple's CarPlay software. Neil Briscoe. Topics: Life & Style · Motors · Geneva Show · Apple · BMW · Ferrari · Google · Mercedes-Benz · Volvo Group; More Topics. Tue, Mar 4, 2014, 18:47.

Cyprus's parliament passed a controversial privatisation bill hours before a deadline to receive the next tranche of a 10-billion-euro international bailout. PHOTOS. A general view of parliament in Nicosia. (AFP/Yiannis Kourtoglou). Enlarge; Caption. NICOSIA: ...

BlackBerry email and messaging disruptions are being reported in provinces including Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, B.C. and Nova Scotia. Users' Twitter posts say BlackBerry smartphones running software that predates its latest BB10 operating system are ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is coming to California. After stopping in Washington, D.C., to meet with President Barack Obama, Netanyahu is scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles on Tuesday afternoon. He plans to meet ...

As the second day of Oscar Pistorius' trial came to a close the defence gave a hint at what might be in store as they questioned their first witness Michelle Burger. The Telegraph's Southern Africa Correspondent Aislinn Laing said Psitorius' barrister, Barry ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is coming to California. After stopping in Washington, D.C., to meet with President Barack Obama, Netanyahu is scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles on Tuesday afternoon. He plans to meet ...

After stopping in Washington, D.C., to meet with President Barack Obama, Netanyahu is scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles on Tuesday afternoon. He plans to meet with local Jewish leaders before attending the evening screening of a television documentary ...

The Obama administration is considering placing Iran-style banking sanctions on selected Russian financial institutions if Moscow were to send troops into eastern Ukraine. The banking sanctions are one of a series of measures that the administration has ...

The world's most-seen “selfie” has been exposed as a cunning piece of stealth advertising. At the Oscars on Sunday night, the host Ellen DeGeneres whipped out a large white mobile phone and declared she was going to break the record for the ...

Facebook is reportedly in talks to acquire Titan Aerospace, manufacturer of solar-powered drones, to bring Internet access to developing countries. 10 Jobs Destined For Robots. (Click image for larger view and slideshow.) Facebook plans to acquire Titan ...

Double-amputee Olympian, Oscar Pistorius, looks on as he appears in the magistrates court in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, June 4, 2013. Email · Print; Share. Facebook · Twitter · Tumblr · LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Reddit · Digg · Mixx · Delicious · Google+.

PARIS —. Most designers try to make consumers dream at their fashion shows, but Karl Lagerfeld sought to bring them back into real life by presenting his latest collection in a spoof Chanel supermarket. Paris' prestigious Grand Palais, where the French ...

European energy markets are worried about the impact Russia's invasion of the Crimean peninsula, and the threat it poses to the rest of Ukraine, could have on the continent's supply of natural gas. But past is not always prologue -- and while Russia has used ...