ABUJA: The newly appointed head of Nigeria's state-run oil firm looks likely to also serve in President Muhammadu Buhari's cabinet, after the first...
ABUJA: The newly appointed head of Nigeria's state-run oil firm looks likely to also serve in President Muhammadu Buhari's cabinet, after the first...
STOCKHOLM: An unexpected bidder emerged Tuesday for the German lignite mining operations of Swedish utility Vattenfall: Greenpeace. State-owned Vattenfall has been pondering strategies...
The winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 Takaaki Kajita (L) and Arthur B McDonald. By Simon Johnson and Ben Hirschler STOCKHOLM/LONDON:...
Nairobi: South Sudan's rebels warned Tuesday the government risks a "return to war" by ordering an increase in regional states and undermining the...
Stockholm: Predicting a Nobel literature prize winner can be harder than finding a needle in a haystack, with hundreds of possible candidates but...
NEW YORK: An American Airlines pilot became ill and died during a flight from Phoenix to Boston Monday but the co-pilot was able...
Jens Stoltenberg NATO condemned Russia’s violation of Turkey’s airspace and urged the Kremlin to coordinate its campaign against Islamic State. “Russia’s actions are...
DELFT: In a country where most people live below sea level, studying the oceans is a matter of survival. Now Dutch scientists have...
VIENNA: Operators of nuclear power plants worldwide are "struggling" to adapt to the increasing and potentially dangerous threat of cyber attacks, a report...
PARIS: Derived from a herb used to treat fevers some 1,700 years ago, the anti-malaria drug artemisinin is one of many treatments plucked...
In this photo taken on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2015, Russian military support crew attach a satellite guided bomb to SU-34 jet fighter at...
PARIS: A Unesco panel of scientists, philosophers, lawyers and government ministers called Monday for a halt to genetic "editing" of the human germline,...
VIÑA DEL MAR: Chile declared huge new marine reserves in the Pacific in water off Easter Island on Monday as it hosted a...
DRESDEN, Germany: Thousands of German anti-Islam protesters on Monday vented their fury at Chancellor Angela Merkel over her welcoming of refugees, accusing her...
OSLO: Almost a third of cactuses are at risk of extinction because of threats including illegal trade and a spread of farms in...
Larry Page, CEO of Alphabet, Google's new parent company SAN FRANCISCO: Google's new parent company hit the stock market on Monday with an...
PARIS: Air France's human resources manager had his shirt stripped from him as he was "almost lynched" on Monday by workers protesting at...
BRUSSELS: Controversial ride-sharing service Uber faces a crackdown by governments around the world and protests by angry taxi drivers, but the company insists...
