NEW YORK (AP) - Target Corp. is acknowledging its security software picked up on suspicious activity after a massive cyberattack was launched, but it decided not to take immediate action. The acknowledgement comes after a media report said Thursday that ...

The United States and Russia failed to resolve a Cold-War-style standoff sparked by Moscow's military intervention in Crimea, as the clock ticks down to the region's vote on splitting from Ukraine. PHOTOS. Pro-Russian volunteers gather in a square next to the ...

If multiple communication systems aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 were manually disabled, as investigators increasingly suspect happened, it would have required detailed knowledge of the long-range Boeing Co. 777's inner workings. Email; Print.

Militants attacked an army detention center in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri in an attempt to free fellow Islamists who were held there, a military spokesman said. “The attack has been successfully repelled with heavy human casualty on the ...

Rescue workers search for survivors in the debris of a building that collapsed in Mumbai. (AP). Summary. BMC had declared Shankar Lok a dilapidated and dangerous building and had been sending eviction notices since 2007. Tweet This. Related. Mumbai- ...

(For more on Malaysian Air Flight 370, see EXT3.) March 15 (Bloomberg) -- Investigators are narrowing the missing Malaysian jetliner's possible routes by mapping hours of satellite contacts that continued after other systems were shut down, according to ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Militants suspected of being members of the group Boko Haram carried out a daring daylight raid early Friday on a heavily guarded military prison in northern Nigeria, freeing some of their comrades but also suffering heavy losses, ...

Militants attacked an army detention center in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri in an attempt to free fellow Islamists who were held there, a military spokesman said. “The attack has been successfully repelled with heavy human casualty on the ...

Ghana ace Kevin-Prince Boateng played the entire duration in Schalke’s 2-1 win over Augsburg on Friday to cement their grip on a UEFA Champions League spot.

c_330_235_16777215_0___images_stories_edim_09_climatea.jpg Researchers have revealed that the climate of the earth shall continuously get warmer day by day through this century as per the former estimates, in spite of the current slowdown in global ...

Jamaican dancehall artist Vybz Kartel and three associates were convicted Thursday in the murder of Clive “Lizard” Williams. Jurors deliberated less than two hours before announcing their verdict, which may result in a life sentence for the popular dancehall ...

(AP Photo/Julio Cortez). A firefighter applies water to rubble a day after a gas leak-triggered explosion, Thursday, March 13, 2014, in East Harlem, New York. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez). Debris is removed from a mound of rubble a day after a gas leak-triggered ...

Friends and political foes united yesterday to pay tribute to Tony Benn, hailing the Labour stalwart as a “champion of the powerless” after his death at the age of 88. The party's longest-serving MP died at home surrounded by his family, and within minutes of ...

Ghanaian Elvis Manu grabbed a last-gasp winner for his Eredivisie side Cambuur in the 3-2 win over RKC Waajwijk at home on Friday night.

Firefighters look over the site of a building explosion in New York, Friday, March 14, 2014. Using sound devices to probe for voices and telescopic cameras to peer into small spaces, workers searching a pile of rubble from a gas explosion in the East Harlem ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — One was passionate enough about flying to build his own flight simulator in his home. The other was a 27-year-old contemplating marriage after having just graduated to the cockpit of a Boeing 777. As speculation intensified ...

Test holes dug into the ground shortly after Wednesday's East Harlem blast showed a high concentration of natural gas when there should have been none, federal investigators said Friday. At least five of the 50-plus holes dug by Con Edison utility workers ...

Oumar Ould Hamaha, known for his red beard, his bloodthirsty statements to the media and his role in kidnapping a Canadian diplomat in 2008, was killed by French forces, the officials said.    

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A little-known Islamist militant group took responsibility for twin bombings hundreds of miles apart Friday that killed at least 19 people, wounded dozens and underscored the vulnerability of the Pakistani government's attempt to open ...