Pakistani Taliban suicide bombers killed at least 80 people at a paramilitary force academy in the northwest on Friday, and vowed further bloodshed in retaliation for the death of Osama bin Laden in a U.S. raid in the country. The first major bombing in Pakistan since bin Laden's death on May 2, it will reinforce

Demands for freedom and justice sweeping the Arab world, fuelled by the power of social media, have brought an unprecedented opportunity for an improvement in human rights, Amnesty International said on Friday. But the situation is on a knife edge, with repressive governments fighting to regain control, the rights group said in an annual report

People with diabetes are at higher risk for certain cancers than those without the blood sugar disease, including colon and pancreatic cancer for men and breast cancer for women, according to a U.S. study. Based on a telephone survey of nearly 400,000 adults, the study — whose findings appear in "Diabetes Care" — found that

Facebook admitted on Thursday it had hired a public relations firm to highlight supposed flaws in Google Inc's privacy practices but denied it had intended a smear campaign against the search giant. Facebook, which has taken privacy missteps of its own with users in the past, hired WPP owned PR firm Burson-Marstellar to focus attention

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday the military has spent about $750 million so far on operations aimed at protecting Libyan civilians from the forces of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Gates gave the estimate while answering questions from U.S. Marines at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.

European and IMF inspectors scrutinising Greece's budget and economic reform progress are finding shortcomings in efforts to pull the euro zone member out of a deep debt crisis, officials said on Thursday. The senior inspectors are meeting ministers in Athens this week to assess whether Greece should get a key, fifth tranche of a 110

President Barack Obama urged businesses to "step up" and hire workers, pressing banks and other corporations to do more to help an economy that he said would take "several years" to recover fully. In a town-hall style meeting conducted by CBS News on Wednesday, Obama said the weak housing market and high gasoline prices were

Queen Elizabeth surpassed George III on Thursday to become the second-longest reigning British monarch in more than 1,000 years of history. Only Queen Victoria — whose relatives and descendants make up a who's who of European royalty across the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries — spent more time on the throne. The 85-year-old Elizabeth II,

Euro zone industrial production fell unexpectedly in March suggesting the region's economy grew slower in the first quarter than economists anticipated. The European Union's statistics office Eurostat said industrial production in the 17 countries using the euro fell 0.2 percent in March against February for a 5.3 percent year-on-year rise. Economists polled by Reuters had