– Snowden meets human rights groups in Moscow Friday – Commercial flights safer than government planes, experts says When an Aeroflot plane from Moscow took an unusually southerly course to Havana on Thursday,
The British government and the auto industry will invest 1 billion pounds ($1.5 billion) in a research centre to develop low-carbon technologies and help secure the jobs of 30,000 people working in
Nokia on Thursday introduced a new smartphone, the Lumia 1020, with a powerful 41-megapixel camera in its latest bid to catch up with rivals Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Apple Inc .
Italian centre-right leader Silvio Berlusconi said on Thursday his People of Freedom party would continue to back Enrico Letta's broad coalition government despite growing party calls to withdraw its support. Berlusconi's apparently
Powerful earthquakes thousands of miles (km) away can trigger swarms of minor quakes near wastewater-injection wells like those used in oil and gas recovery, scientists reported on Thursday, sometimes followed months later
Insurer Swiss Re said on Friday it was in preliminary talks about merging its Admin Re business unit with Britain's Phoenix Group Holdings, confirming a media report. "There is no certainty that
Wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, with his arm in a cast, accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded "not guilty" to committing the worst mass-casualty attack on U.S. soil since 9/11, a
Think Spanish sport and images that spring to mind include the nation's all-conquering soccer team, Rafa Nadal hoisting aloft the French Open trophy or Fernando Alonso burning up a Formula One track
An Asiana Airlines flight scheduled to leave Shanghai for Seoul on Thursday afternoon was delayed after the Airbus A330 aircraft was found to be leaking oil as it was taxiing toward the
Turkey's central bank faced calls on Thursday to raise interest rates to steady the embattled lira despite political pressure from Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to keep rates low – a dilemma which
