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SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine -- Crimea's pro-Russia administration in Simferopol has announced a March 16 referendum on whether Crimea should become part of Russia. Critics fear the move is a pretext toward secession and the eventual annexation by the ...

In a small trial, researchers have successfully used gene therapy to boost the immune system of 12 patients with HIV to resist infection. They removed the patients' white blood cells to edit a gene in them, then infused them back into the patients. Some of the ...

The European Union has frozen the assets of 18 Ukrainians held responsible for embezzling the country's funds, and illegally sending them abroad. Ousted President Viktor Yanukovich tops the list. The foreign ministers of 28 EU member states agreed to ...

MOSCOW, March 6 (RIA Novosti) – A US anchor at the Kremlin-funded TV news channel RT has resigned on air, saying the network “whitewashes” the actions of President Vladimir Putin. Liz Wahl began the surprise announcement Wednesday by referring to ...

UN special representative Robert Serry and his assistant Ruth Sigalus were rescued from a small café in Crimea surrounded by local militia. The pair found refuge in the café after their car was surrounded by a mob, and an armed man sat in the driver's seat ...

Jonathan Trott will make his return to cricket in Warwickshire's two-day friendly with Gloucestershire at Edgbaston on April 1. Trott, 32, left England's Ashes tour after the first Test in Brisbane with what was described as a stress-related condition following a ...

The EU has announced an asset freeze's on Ukraine's ousted President Victor Yanukovych and 17 other senior officials and family in his entourage. They are all blamed for embezzling state funds. The list includes Yanukovych's son and his closest aides, ...

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman on Thursday blamed the Palestinians for the deadlock in the peace talks that began last July, rejecting Ramallah's preconditions for extending the American-moderated negotiations past April. “The Palestinians are the ones ...

Pope Francis revealed he fell for a girl he met while training to be a priest. He was about 22 and had to go to confession to get her out of his system. In an interview on his first year as Pope, he said: “A girl turned my head at the seminary. We were young.

London: India's struggle to break into the list of world's top 100 universities continued as the higher education institutions from the country yet again failed to impress academics across the world. Harvard University in the US has yet again topped the annual ...

(CNN) - Pope Francis reaffirmed the Catholic Church's opposition to gay marriage on Wednesday, but suggested in a newspaper interview that it could support some types of civil unions. The Pope reiterated the church's longstanding teaching that "marriage ...

PROPOSED new international sugar consumption guidelines are a wake-up call for Australia, say health experts. The World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines suggest people limit sugar to 10 per cent of their daily calories and aim for five per cent.

LONDON — A radical gene therapy to combat HIV using genetically modified cells that are resistant to the virus has been declared a success by scientists following the first clinical trial. The treatment, which has never been tested on humans before, raised ...

New Delhi, March 6: No higher education institute from the country found place among top 200 reputed universities of the world in a list based on a survey of senior academics across the globe, said a Financial Express report. Even India's well-known IITs and ...

Basically, Russian President Vladimir Putin has won. At least he believes he has and in a place like Ukraine, or any other part of Russia's "near abroad," that's all that matters. Let's count the ways. First, he has effectively taken full control of Crimea, which Putin ...

BRISBANE, Australia - The parents of jailed Australian journalist Peter Greste said on Thursday they were haunted and depressed by images of him caged in an Egyptian court. Greste is one of three Al-Jazeera English journalists who appeared in a Cairo ...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said his government was breaking diplomatic relations with Panama after the country called a meeting of North and Latin American nations over protests in Caracas. Writing on Twitter, Panama President Ricardo ...

SINGAPORE — The National University of Singapore (NUS) rose to No 21 in the Times Higher Education (THE) World Reputation Rankings of universities in the 2014 list released this morning (March 6), while Nanyang Technological University (NTU) ...

Getty Images will give more than 40 million of its stock photos away for free, as it seeks to address burgeoning online photo piracy. The stock photo agency introduced a new "embed" function on Thursday that will enable its images to be published on websites ...