SAN FRANCISCO : To mark the Cinco de Mayo holiday this year, Domino’s Pizza festooned its Facebook page with a string of posts, including an image of a Mexican-themed guacamole pizza that garnered over 2,000 “likes”. But visitors to Domino’s companion Google+ page on that ...

  BEIJING     China's 12-year-old Ye Wocheng became the European Tour's youngest ever player when he teed off at the Volvo China Open Thursday, but struggled in the stiff wind. However Dutchman Robert-Jan Derksen made light of the conditions to shoot a six-under-par 66 and take a ...

GARHI KHUDA BAKHSH  - A cancelled rally, a ‘loathed’ president and a party chairman kept out of the public glare because of Taliban threats - Gulzar Ali Khawaja has never seen anything like it.For the first time in his life, the once ardent supporter of the Pakistan People's Party, ...

Myanmar rescuers struggled Monday to bring help to outlying villages hit by an earthquake that aid agencies say has killed at least 13 and caused a bridge and mine to collapse.A series of powerful aftershocks rattled nerves after Sunday's 6.8-magnitude quake, which sent terrified people running ...

PESHAWAR  - It took three months and 30 visits from UN aid workers to convince Haidar Khan to let his son have the polio vaccination.The day before he relented and allowed Yahia to take the two drops of vaccine, he almost came to blows with the Unicef staff trying to inoculate the ...

MOGADISHU - Famine is over in war-torn Somalia but the problems are not: Haweyo Ibrahim survives on meagre food aid handouts rather than return to her village, controlled by Shebab rebels who killed her husband.“Until the Shebab leave, I cannot go back,” 40-year old Ibrahim said, ...

BUCHAREST- A new wave of Romanian cinema came to fame at the Cannes film festival a decade ago, but many prizes later, filmmakers still struggle to win the box office in their homeland.Directors Cristi Puiu and Corneliu Porumboiu, who have won recognition in Europe and the United States, say they ...

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Desmond Tutu is now seen as South Africa's moral compass, but in the 1980s he was reviled by the whites' government and criticised within the liberation movement, a new biography said Sunday. Excerpts from "Tutu: The Authorised Portrait" published in The Sunday Independent ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Six weeks after Pakistan was ravaged by floods, the European Union is still struggling to decide how to help beyond emergency aid, with a plan to offer lucrative trade concessions locked in dispute. Last month, the EUs foreign affairs chief, Catherine Ashton, urged member ...

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) Former Olympic and world champion Taufik Hidayat looked a shadow of his former self in labouring to victory in the Thomas Cup on Monday, as Nigeria were effectively thrown out of the tournament. Hidayat, Indonesias top shuttler, took more than an hour to see off Indias Kashyap ...

NORTHAMPTON (England) (AFP) - Australia quick Mitchell Johnson's bid to gain some form ahead of the third Ashes Test suffered a setback against Northamptonshire on Sunday. Johnson bowled seven wicketless overs for 42 runs, the left-arm quick struggling for accuracy just as he'd done during ...

LONDON (AFP) - Britains Ministry of Defence is struggling to meet its targets for quickly resupplying frontline troops in Afghanistan, the National Audit Office said in a report Thursday. Shortages of spare parts for helicopters have also led to cannibalisation of equipment to keep aircraft flying ...

Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez says she is struggling to lose her fat after giving birth to twins. The 39-year-old, who gave birth to twins Max and Emme last February, had gained 60 pounds during her pregnancy. It is so funny Once I gave birth, I dropped 30 pounds immediately and then the next 20 ...

AUGUSTA (AFP) - Kenny Perry, trying at 48 to become golf's oldest major champion, fired a bogey-free five-under 67 in swirling wind Friday to match Chad Campbell for the lead late in round two of the Masters. Campbell, the 2003 PGA Championship runner-up seeking his first major crown, and US Ryder ...

ISLA Fisher is struggling to master Hebrew. The 'Confessions of a Shopaholic' actress, who has converted to Judaism for her Jewish fiance Sacha Baron Cohen, hasn't quite got to grips with the new language. When asked if she was fluent in Hebrew, Isla laughed and said: "That would be pushing it I ...

WASHINGTON  - After months vowing to get US troops home from Iraq, Barack Obama has succumbed to the war's political entanglements, struggling to explain his plan in the light of recent security gains. More than five years after the US invasion, the Iraq war is now enmeshing not only the ...

JUSTIN Timberlake has struggled to adjust his bachelor lifestyle since girlfriend Jessica Biel moved in. The stunning actress recently began living in Justin's Los Angeles home and the couple are said to have argued over fridge space. A source said: "Justin has been a bachelor for a long ...

ACTOR Rhys Ifans is struggling to get over his split from Sienna Miller. The distraught 'Notting Hill' star was seen slumped on the pavement outside London's E+O restaurant and bar in the Notting Hill area after drowning his sorrows on Saturday (14.06.08). Wearing sunglasses to hide his ...

BEIJING (AFP) - The gallery Tamsin Roberts ran for more than two years in Beijing's famous 798 art district has been bulldozed to make way for a six-storey car park. While the car park is ostensibly being built to cash in on the flood of visitors expected during the Olympics in August, Roberts ...