The sea bed search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet is poised to widen as a sonar scan of the most likely crash site deep beneath the Indian Ocean nears completion without yielding a single clue. Meanwhile in Beijing, about 50 relatives of Chinese...
The US Food and Drug Administration proposes a ban on the sale of e-cigarettes to minors, potentially subjecting the $2 billion industry to US federal regulation for the first time. Mana Rabiee reports.
Sir Paul McCartney is set to return to Candlestick Park to offer a swan song to the San Francisco 49ers' former stadium. Sir Paul's website posted a statement confirming that the former Beatle will perform on August 14 at what is being billed as the...
The FBI is seeking information on victims of an admitted American paedophile who taught in overseas schools throughout his career. The suspect killed himself last month. Vanessa Johnston reports.
Three Americans were killed yesterday when a security guard opened fire at a Kabul hospital funded by a US Christian charity, in the latest of a spate of attacks on foreign civilians in Afghanistan. Attacks on security forces, Afghan civilians and...
Nearly 3.5 million civilians in Syria have virtually no access to desperately-needed humanitarian aid, and people are dying needlessly every day as violence and extremism escalate and the risk of sectarian violence grows, UN chief Ban Ki-moon has...
The California Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by Michael Jackson’s personal physician, Conrad Murray, who was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the pop star’s death. Murray was released from a Los Angeles jail in October after...
Hollywood star Samuel L. Jackson has been talking tough to encourage men to check themselves for cancer in a new video. He has recorded an online film to help efforts to ensure men look out for warning signs of testicular and other cancers. Jackson –...
Amsterdam has won court permission to ban marijuana cafes in its famous Red Light district, stepping up a crackdown on the city’s freewheeling lifestyle. Marijuana is technically illegal in the Netherlands, but possession of small amounts is not...
Ukrainian forces killed up to five pro-Moscow rebels yesterday as they closed in on the separatists’ military stronghold in the east and Russia launched army drills near the border in response, raising fears its troops would go in. Under an...
France and Germany assured Georgia yesterday that a deal bringing it closer to the European Union would be sealed within weeks, moving to tighten ties with the ex-Soviet republic as tension mounts between Russia and the West over Ukraine. The two core...
A rebel group in eastern Libya that controls several oil ports yesterday said it would not reopen the key Ras Lanuf and Es Sider terminals unless the government implemented its part of a recent deal to end the oil blockade. In a sign of further delays...
Brazil is investigating a potential case of atypical mad cow disease, the agriculture ministry said yesterday, just over a year after several countries banned Brazilian beef imports when a similar case of the disease was confirmed. A routine inspection...
Israel yesterday suspended US-sponsored peace talks with the Palestinians in response to President Mahmoud Abbas’s unexpected unity pact with the rival Islamist Hamas group. The negotiations had appeared to be heading nowhere even before Wednesday’s...
The Egyptian military said yesterday it had gained “complete control over the situation” in the Sinai Peninsula, where Islamist insurgents have been carrying out attacks against security forces for several months. Violence has spiralled in the Sinai...
China’s Defence Ministry yesterday said it will continue military patrols in waters near a tropical Japanese island close to Taiwan, days after Tokyo announced it would break ground on a new radar base in the area. The radar station on Yonaguni Island,...
Search for bodies from sunk Korean ferry continues
The captain and two crew of a South Korean ferry that sank last week have a state appointed attorney to represent them as they face charges of negligence relating to the deaths of hundreds of passengers. Captain Lee Joon-seok, 69, and two other crew...
Oscar winner Jodie Foster, 51, tied the knot with 44-year-old Los Angeles-based photographer Alexandra Hedison at the weekend, Foster’s publicist Jennifer Allen confirmed. It is the first marriage for the actress and film producer, who came out...
Smoking cannabis can cause potentially lethal damage to the heart and arteries of young and middle-aged adults, a study has found. Researchers in France who looked at almost 2,000 patients with medical problems related to cannabis use have identified...
A measure to regulate California’s chaotic medical marijuana industry has passed a key legislative hurdle, in a move that could lay the groundwork to tax and control recreational use of the drug. US states are increasingly moving to remove curbs on...
Not the Cardiff University role
President Vladimir Putin has called the internet a CIA project and made comments about Russia's biggest search engine Yandex, sending the company's shares plummeting. The Kremlin has been anxious to exert greater control over the internet, which...
Family friend says Pope John Paul II was like an uncle to her, adding that his visits were a "great joy" as the Roman Catholic Church prepares to canonise him. Gavino Garay reports.
The Israeli government said it has decided to halt peace talks with the Palestinians in response to a new unity agreement between rival Palestinian factions. The decision appears to end a nine-month peace initiative by US secretary of state John...
Russia's defence minister has announced new military exercises along the Ukrainian border just hours after Ukrainian troops killed at least two pro-Russia insurgents in eastern Ukraine. The clashes were the first since acting Ukrainian president...
Smoking cannabis can cause potentially lethal damage to the heart and arteries of young and middle-aged adults, a study has found. Researchers in France who looked at almost 2,000 patients with medical problems related to cannabis use identified 35...
The father of a teenager who miraculously survived a five-hour flight from California to Hawaii tucked in a jet's wheel well has said his son missed Africa, where he used to live, and was struggling at school. Abdilahi Yusuf Abdi, of Santa Clara,...
Mark Shand, the brother-in-law of Britain's Prince Charles, died in a New York hospital yesterday after suffering a serious head injury in a fall outside a club following a charity event. Shand, aged 62, was the younger brother of Camilla Parker...
Divers have plunged deeper into the submerged wreck of the South Korean ferry that sank more than a week ago as the death toll neared 160 and relatives of the 140-plus still missing pressed the government to finish the grim task of recovery. At a port...
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