Samsung snagged 36.1 percent of smartphone shipments in the second quarter, compared with 29.7 percent for Apple, new data from Counterpoint Research shows. Samsung still can’t be beat in the US smartphone market, according to new data from Counterpoint Research. In the second quarter, Samsung accounted for 36.1 percent of US smartphone shipments, topping Apple’s […]

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The Pentagon announced Friday that the US military has launched targeted airstrikes on forces of the Islamic State (IS) Sunni insurgent group by dropping two laser-guided bombs on its mobile artillery in northern Iraq. "The mission really is to protect ...

U.S. fighters dropped bombs on Islamic militants in Iraq on Friday, the Pentagon said, redeeming President Barack Obama's promise of military force to counter the advancing militants and confront the threat they pose to Iraqi civilians and Americans.

International opinion is changing on the siege of Gaza. More leaders are publicly questioning the wisdom of squeezing Gaza to the point where it explodes. This much can be read into Barack Obama's statement on Thursday that "long-term, there has to be a ...

Heavy rain disrupted the second day of the fourth Test between England and India at Old Trafford as the players were forced from the field 35 minutes after lunch. England were 237-6 when the rain came, 85 ahead of India after the tourists were bowled out for ...

The judge in the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius has announced she will deliver her verdict on September 11. Judge Thokozile Masipa confirmed the date after the prosecution and defence teams today ended their final arguments in the murder case against the ...

The judge in the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius has announced she will deliver her verdict on September 11. Judge Thokozile Masipa confirmed the date after the prosecution and defence teams today ended their final arguments in the murder case against the ...

President John Dramani Mahama has described as timely, the signing of the second compact of the Millennium Challenge Corporation. The signing will see the release of $498 million to Ghana which government says will be channeled into the country’s power sector. The $498.2 million will support the transformation of Ghana’s electricity sector and stimulate private ...

Washington, DC -Four new partners have joined the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced at the recent U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit.

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has met the various political parties over recent pockets of violence that have characterized the limited voter registration exercise in the region. The Regional Commander, DCOP Nathan Kofi Boakye, told reporters that several incidents had marred the voter registration process in the region. The Electoral Commission, on Monday August 4, ...

Ivory Coast forward Didier Drogba retires from international football - less than six months before the 2015 Nations Cup.