U.S. Navy SEALs boarded a tanker carrying oil from a port controlled by rebels in eastern Libya, thwarting the group's first attempt to sell crude independently of the central government. Navy SEAL commandos seized the tanker southeast of the Mediterranean ...

South African Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius sits in the dock during his trial for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, March 17. European Pressphoto Agency. PRETORIA ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) - Christians and Muslims have joined to try to help free millions of men, women and children held in modern-day slavery, forced to work as maids, prostitutes, child soldiers and manual laborers. The Global Freedom Network launched ...

In less than a month, most of the world's ATMs and a large portion of its computer-based industrial control systems will become a lot more vulnerable to hackers and viruses. On April 8, Microsoft will stop issuing updates and patches for bugs in its Windows XP ...

YOUTH AND Sports Minister Elvis Afriyie Ankrah has stated that magic cannot ensure FIFA World Cup triumph for any country. “The FIFA World Cup, which is the most competitive football tournament in the world, cannot be won through magic,” he said in a ...

Deputies of the leftist Fair Russia faction said their original bill had been prepared to ease the entry of the Crimean Autonomous Republic but it turned out that it can happen under existing laws. The decision to recall the bill was taken after Sunday's ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. on Monday released a version of its OneNote note-taking software for Macs and added new features and a free tier for all of the software's users in moves clearly targeted at up-and-coming productivity software rival ...

OSCAR Pistorius once went into “full combat recon mode” and drew his gun inside his house thinking there was an intruder only to find out it was noise from his washing machine. The Olympian was in the process of buying six guns at the time he shot dead ...

PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA — Judge Thokozile Masipa is a central figure in Oscar Pistorius' murder trial. She talks softly, but carries a big stick. She has made a name for herself for being only the second black woman to ascend to the bench, and for then ...

(Updates with official guarantee of crew's safety in seventh paragraph, tribal mediation in ninth.) March 17 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Navy SEALs boarded a tanker carrying oil from a port controlled by rebels in eastern Libya, thwarting the group's first attempt to sell ...

Ghana's fans and supporters during the 2013 Orange Africa Cup of Nations football match, Ghana Vs Mali at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth, South Africa on January 24, 2013. Ghana won 1-0. Photo by Christian Liewig/NCI//ABACAPRESS ...

In this handout provided by the U.S. Navy, Crew members on board a P-8A Poseidon assigned to Patrol Squadron (VP) 16 man their workstations while assisting in search and rescue operations for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 March 16, 2014 in the Indian ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES -- A predawn earthquake rolled across the Los Angeles basin Monday, rattling nerves and shaking buildings along a 240-kilometre swath of Southern California but causing no major damage. The 4.4-magnitude quake was centred 3.2 ...

A HISTORIC pact to eradicate slavery and human trafficking was finalised at the Vatican yesterday between Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest and representatives of Pope Francis, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Mohamed Ahmed ...

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, center, talks with Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, left, and Pierre Vimont, Secretary-General of the European External Action Service (EEAS). The EU has agreed to impose travel bans and asset freezes ...

The Government of Ghana has approved a total of ¢24,677,025 (US$9,675,404) as budget for the Black Stars at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. According to a statement from the Ministry of Information and Media Relation, the Cabinet approved the release of ...

The government in Moscow will recognize Crimea's independence in a bilateral pact before turning to consideration of the territory's request to join the Russian Federation, the speaker of Russia's parliament said Monday. More than 96 percent of Crimeans ...

RESTON, VA--(Marketwired - Mar 17, 2014) - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the global leader in domain names, today provided a statement on the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) announcement of its intent to ...

The mother of Oscar Pistorius' slain girlfriend made a rare appearance in court today, but had to leave after seeing pictures of Pistorius smeared with her daughter's blood. Pistorius paused on his way into court today for the third week of his murder trial to nod ...