CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida -- There will be a Full Moon on the night of September 8, 2014 - but not just any Full Moon - it is a Super Moon that is also known as a a full Harvest Moon. The Moon will be technically 99.9% full at 1:24 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Japan's Kei Nishikori and Croatia's Marin Cilic rocked the tennis world with stunning back-to-back U.S. Open semi-final upsets on Saturday, sending two all-time greats Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic out of Flushing Meadows.

Maryam Al Khawaja was expected to stand trial yesterday for allegedly attacking a lieutenant and a policewoman at Bahrain International Airport last month. She was taken to the Public Prosecution for questioning yesterday, buta her lawyer Mohammed Al ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Rescue crews searching off Jamaica's coast Saturday said they could no longer see debris spotted earlier, stymieing efforts to solve the mystery surrounding a small plane carrying an Upstate New York couple that went on a ghostly ...

Swedish director Roy Andersson's comedy A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence won the Golden Lion award for best film at the Venice Film Festival. The offbeat movie was hailed by critics for its moving exploration of what it means to be human.

The Somali militant selected Mahad Omar Abdi-Kareem at a meeting in Barawe on Saturday as Waagacusub media confirmed. Waagacusub.net -Somalia's Islamic extremist rebel , Al-Shabaab named a new leader which his real name is Mahad Omar ...

ebola-leone A health worker, wearing head-to-toe protective gear, offers water to a woman with Ebola, at a treatment centre for infected persons, as a young boy stands nearby in Kenema Government Hospital, in Kenema, Eastern Province, Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone's proposed countrywide 'lockdown' will not help control an Ebola outbreak and could lead to the disease spreading further as cases are concealed, medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) claimed today. The government plans to order ...

Al-Shabaab has appointed a new leader, only days after Ahmed Abdi Godane was killed in an air strike south of Mogadishu. Photograph: Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP. Al-Shabaab, Somalia's Islamic extremist group, has named a new leader after confirming the ...

At the U.S. Open Saturday, Federer was thumped by Marin Cilic, a 6-foot-6 Croat, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 in an hour and 45 minutes. Federer, 33, looked a step slow while Cilic, 25, played with unusual ease for a man competing in the second Grand Slam semifinal of his ...

Some newspaper reports indicate that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has made an appeal to the local population in the border regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan to support its struggle for the establishment of an Islamic caliphate. It has also been ...

With the Kashmir valley facing one of the worst floods in its history, the catastrophic situation has taken a heavy toll on life and property. Rising Kashmir's Junaid Kathju, Syed Rizwan Geelani, Manzoor-ul-Hassan, Rahiba R Parveen and Sumaiya Yousuf- ...

Maryam al-Khawaja, who campaigns against abuse in Gulf state, jailed for further 10 days despite UN expressing concerns. Last updated: 06 Sep 2014 21:50. Email Article. Print Article. Share article. Send Feedback. Maryam al-Khawaja has criticised ...

Kiev: Ukraine said Saturday a truce was largely holding in the war-battered east, despite fears it may ultimately fail to halt a pro-Russian insurgency still threatening to tear the country apart. The 12-point pact signed on Friday is the first backed by both Kiev ...

Jammu, Sep 6 (PTI) Drawing parallel between last year's Kedarnath tragedy and the Jammu and Kashmir's flood, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today hoped that his government will be able to keep the death toll less by better and speedy rescue operation.

Russia has warned that there will be a reaction if the European Union imposes fresh economic sanctions against it over the crisis in Ukraine. The comment by the Russian foreign ministry came as a tentative ceasefire agreed between Kiev and separatist ...

Mohammed Morsi Egypt's ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi sits in a defendant cage in the Police Academy courthouse in Cairo, May 8, 2014. Tarek el-Gabbas—AP. The move is part of the government crackdown against the Muslim Brotherhood.

MONZA, Italy (AP) — Lewis Hamilton broke Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg's recent stranglehold on pole position by qualifying ahead of the championship leader at the Italian Grand Prix on Saturday. Rosberg had taken four straight poles and six of the ...

MANAMA - A Bahraini judge on Saturday postponed the start of the trial of human rights activist Maryam al-Khawaja by 10 days and ordered that she remain in custody, her lawyer said. Khawaja, who has joint Bahraini-Danish citizenship, has been charged ...

Iraqis inspect bodies found in a mass grave and displayed for identification in the town of Tuz Khurmatu, northeast of Baghdad. The victims are believed to have been killed by Islamic State fighters. Iraqis inspect bodies found in a mass grave and displayed for ...