An explosion at a police station in a suburb of Turkey's largest city Istanbul on Tuesday was caused by a suicide bomber, Istanbul police chief Huseyin Capkin said. "First (the attacker) threw a grenade, then blew himself up at the entrance of the police station … The policeman working at the entrance was killed," Capkin
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Olympics mania sapped interest in betting on sports such as soccer and horse racing in recent weeks, online gambling exchange Betfair said on Tuesday, eating into revenues at the company which offers an alternative to traditional bookmakers. Betfair, set up 12 years ago, said like-for-like revenue adjusted for the impact of regulation was only marginally
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Masked bikers shot dead an Italian entrepreneur and his girlfriend at close range in a busy central Milan street, a mafia-style execution unusual in Italy's financial capital. Organised crime in Italy has long been associated with Sicily, Naples, Calabria and other poorer regions in the south. But over the past few years the tentacles of
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European soccer's governing body (UEFA) revealed the first sanctions under its financial fair play rules on Tuesday, announcing it is withholding prize money for 23 clubs because of their failure to comply with the new rules. The clubs, all participating in 2012/13 UEFA club competitions, were found to have overdue payments to other teams, their
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Young men who had smoked marijuana recreationally were twice as likely to be diagnosed with testicular cancer than men who have never used marijuana, according to a U.S. study. Researchers whose findings appeared in the journal Cancer said the link appeared to be specific to a type of tumor known as nonseminoma. "This is the
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The next generation iPhone 5, which Apple Inc. plans to release this week, could not only boost the tech giant's bottom line – but could give a significant boost to the overall U.S. economy. Sales of the new iPhone could add between a quarter and a half percentage point to fourth quarter annualized growth in
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A deal has been reached to resume construction on a National September 11 Museum in New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Monday on the eve of the 11th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center towers. A cost dispute between the foundation that controls the museum and the Port Authority of New
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Asian shares fell on Tuesday as investors repositioned before a German Constitutional Court ruling on the euro zone's bailout funds which could remove one risk for Europe, and a U.S. Federal Reserve meeting that may yield widely expected monetary easing. European equities were seen falling, with a 0.3 percent drop in U.S. stock futures suggesting
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Using behavioral training to help babies fall asleep doesn't seem to harm them emotionally or developmentally years later, but it also doesn't benefit them long-term either, according to an Australian study. The study, which appeared in the journal Pediatrics, followed on a 2007 study by the same researchers that found babies and their parents benefited
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Al Qaeda confirmed on Tuesday that one of the group's most senior figures, veteran militant Abu Yahya al-Libi, had died in a U.S. drone strike earlier this year. The U.S. government said in June it had killed Libi in Pakistan, dealing the biggest in a series of blows to the group since the raid that
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