UEFA is probing new Italian football federation (FIGC) president Carlo Tavecchio over an alleged racist remark, Europe's ruling football body said on Wednesday. Carlo Tavecchio. Tavecchio, 71, is suspected to have made a racist remark in connection with ...

Bangalore: Legendary guru BKS Iyengar's journey from obscurity in Bellur village to worldwide fame was not easy. Poverty stalked the man who endured much to pursue his passion called yoga. When Iyengar landed in Bangalore as a young lad, it was a ...

EDGARTOWN, Mass. — A United States Special Operations team tried and failed to rescue James Foley and other Americans held hostage in Syria during a secret mission earlier this summer authorized by President Obama, senior administration officials ...

KIEV/DONETSK: Heavy shelling hit residential neighbourhoods in Ukraine's rebel stronghold of Donetsk and government forces fought street battles in other towns on Wednesday as they sought to crush a four-month-old separatist rebellion. The forces of the ...

Treasuries fell, led by shorter- maturity debt, after minutes of the Federal Reserve's July meeting raised the possibility that interest-rate increases may happen sooner than traders anticipated. U.S. five-year yields jumped the most this month after the record of ...

What began as an attempt to quarantine West Point, an Ebola-infected area of the Liberian city of Monrovia, soon became a violent clash between security forces and community members on Wednesday. From the Los Angeles Times: Angry residents stormed ...

What began as an attempt to quarantine West Point, an Ebola-infected area of the Liberian city of Monrovia, soon became a violent clash between security forces and community members on Wednesday. From the Los Angeles Times: Angry residents stormed ...

WASHINGTON -- Some of the very lawmakers who have taken the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise awareness and money for ALS research voted for legislation that defunded ALS research. These contradictory decisions don't necessarily make the lawmakers ...

New Jersey-based Kirusa, a developer of Voice SMS based Mobile Value Added Services (MVAS) for emerging markets, has acquired Saya, a Ghana-based developer of mobile messaging apps for feature phones. Often described as the ‘WhatsApp for feature phones’,Saya is a mobile messaging app that caters to high-growth mobile markets worldwide, bringing cheap mobile messaging to people who do not have Smartphones in emerging economies. Saya is particularly popular in West Africa for its real-time

The United Nations refugee agency launched a land, air and sea aid push to address the humanitarian crisis in Iraq, one that the organization says is one of the worst it has seen in recent years. About 100 tons of supplies landed in Irbil on Wednesday, which ...

Five months have passed since the Ebola virus was first confirmed in West Africa — but according to a top aid official, the emergency response is still leaderless and suffering from a kind of “Ebola psychosis” that has made the global community reluctant to ...

Attorney General Eric Holder during his meeting at the FBI building in St. Louis, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. Holder has told Ferguson community leaders that he has assigned the federal government's "most experienced agents and prosecutors" to the ...

Imran Khan says he will not hold talks with the government until Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resigns. The opposition leader told protesters holding a sit-in outside parliament that the talks would be "no use" unless Mr Sharif stepped down.

Imran Khan says he will not hold talks with the government until Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resigns. The opposition leader told protesters holding a sit-in outside parliament that the talks would be "no use" unless Mr Sharif stepped down.

Ebola patient Held By health workers The World Health Organisation (WHO) has commended efforts made in containing the spread of the Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria. A comment posted on their website. said “the situation in Lagos, Nigeria, where the first ...

The European Commission has unveiled a €125 million market support plan for providers of fruit and vegetables in wake of the food import sanctions that have been imposed by Russia from all EU member states. Emergency measures will be implemented ...

Lufthansa German Airlines has been voted “Europe’s leading Airline” at the World Travel Awards (WTA) for the fourth time in a row. The WTA is given to the best of Europe’s travel industry following a voting process involving 230,000 travel tourism and hospitality professionals worldwide. Lufthansa was selected as winner from a shortlist of eleven top European airline brands in Athens, Greece. For the first time, Lufthansa also won the top spot as “Europe’s Leading Airline Lounge”--receiving

As the war on Gaza intensified and the images of killed children made the rounds, people all over the world asked a simple question: What can be done to stop this carnage? The answer is: make the occupation costly and strengthen the resilience of the ...

... * More on this on tonight's show: “Federal prosecutors briefed Attorney General Eric Holder about the civil rights investigation into the shooting death of unarmed teen Michael Brown, during Holder's trip to Ferguson on Wednesday.” * Making a connection: ...

The parents of James Foley deliver a statement following the beheading of their son by an Isis militant. Speaking on Wednesday outside their home in Rochester, New Hampshire, John and Diane Foley say they are humbled to have James as a son.