MALMO, Sweden - Fans from around the world have descended on the Swedish city of Malmoe for Saturday’s final of the Eurovision Song Contest, with ABBA’s Benny Andersson and Bjoern Ulvaeus ...
ROMERafael Nadal set up a potential Rome Masters final with Swiss rival Roger Federer after dominating Tomas Berdych 6-2, 6-4 in the semi-finals on Saturday. Berdych had caused the first major upset ...
MADRID Atletico Madrid won their 10th Spanish Cup on Friday when they beat bitter city rivals Real Madrid 2-1 in extra-time in a match which saw both Jose Mourinho and Cristiano ...
TOKYO : Yahoo Japan Corp. has said it suspects up to 22 million user IDs may have been stolen during an unauthorised attempt to access the administrative system of its Yahoo! Japan portal. “We ...
BIRMINGHAM: A burglar has been caught after helping himself to a box of Jaffa Cakes during a robbery. Reece O’Callaghan had denied breaking into the house of an elderly couple inBirminghamin ...
ORLEANS, France - The ECB is exploring ways to directly help small companies as a way to boost the recession-hit eurozone economy directly, said Benoit Coeure, A member of the bank’s executive ...
MOSCO 0 Tax administrators from 45 countries urged their govts to combat tax fraud and avoidance by boosting coordination and transparency, vowing to find tax evaders anywhere they might hide. ...
NEW DELHI - India faces at least “a one-in-three” chance of losing its prized sovereign grade rating, S&P’s has warned, amid new threats to economic growth and reforms. The ...
washington - The Obama administration opened the door to a new era of U.S. energy exports on Friday, approving the first liquefied natural gas project since the start of a heated debate over how best ...
BEIJING - China will not pay for CO2 emissions by its airlines on flights within Europe, a top civil aviation official reportedly said after the European Commission warned eight Chinese firms face ...
NEW YORK - US stocks closed out another week of new record highs Friday as investors focused on the positive side of mixed economic news and corporate earnings.Retail sales barely budged higher ...
washington - Cyprus should return to growth in 2015 after three years of deep recession, the International Monetary Fund said on Friday, but will need to ensure that its sweeping austerity programme ...
ISLAMABAD - Caretaker Federal Minister for Water and Power Dr Mussadiq Malik on Saturday said caretaker government was taking urgent measures to overcome electricity loadshedding across the ...
washington - Austerity or growth? Europe’s struggling economies have faced the question without fully answering it in recent years, but the United States is on track to do both.Projections ...
BAGHDAD - Violence in Iraq killed 11 people on Saturday including a police officer, his wife and two children, while gunmen kidnapped up to 10 people, among them police, officials said.The attacks ...
NEW DELHI - India says all issues will be “on the table”, including a recent border spat and a festering trade imbalance, during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to the South ...
TRIPOLI - A bomb exploded Saturday in a Tripoli street housing the Algerian, Greek and Saudi embassies, lightly damaging a car, hours after a soldier was wounded in a bombing in Libya's second city ...
KABUL - The Afghan parliament on Saturday cut short a debate on a bill to protect women from violence after complaints from some traditionalist MPs that it was against Islamic ...
MOSCOW - Russia's security services openly named the alleged US intelligence agency's Moscow station chief Friday in a rare breach of protocol after arresting a purported CIA agent working ...
SEOUL - North Korea on Saturday launched three short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan, apparently as part of a military drill, South Korea's defence ministry said.US and South Korean forces had ...
SANAA - Yemen’s air force has been the target of “sabotage”, the country’s military aviation chief said in a televised interview, days after a fighter jet crashed in the ...
JAKARTA - A British woman could face the death penalty in Indonesia after being arrested for allegedly smuggling crystal methamphetamine into the country from China, an official said ...
NEW YORK - A rush-hour collision between two commuter trains in a suburb north of New York City Friday injured 60 passengers, five of them seriously.A spokesman for the Metro North commuter ...
RIYADH - A new case of the deadly coronavirus has been detected in Saudi Arabia where 15 people have already died after contracting it, the health ministry announced on Saturday on its Internet ...
MUZAFFARABAD - A Chinese man working on an energy project in Azad Kashmir was being held Saturday after hundreds of protesters attacked his company offices over the alleged desecration of Holy Quran, ...
MOBILE Jessica Korda had seven birdies in her seven-under par 65 on Friday to seize a one-shot second-round lead over surging Hall of Famer Karrie Webb in the Mobile Bay LPGA ...
ROME World number one Serena Williams said she hoped to improve her game for the French Open after easing into the Rome Open final with a 6-3, 6-0 win over Simona Halep which ended the ...
CAIRO - Demonstrators calling for Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Mursi to resign and demanding early elections clashed with riot police in Cairo late Friday.Hundreds of people had marched ...
LONDON Tim Southee bowledNew Zealandback into contention in the first Test againstEnglandwith a dramatic burst late on the third day at Lord's on Saturday. At stumps,Englandwere 180 for ...
TUNIS - Tunisian security forces deployed in strength on Saturday after Salafist movement Ansar al-Sharia called on its supporters to defy a government ban on its annual congress.There was a ...






