Real Madrid sailed into their first Champions League final since 2002 with an astonishingly one-sided away victory over holders Bayern Munich.
Sergio Ramos scored two headers from set-pieces before Cristiano Ronaldo rounded off a counter-attack to all but end the...
E-commerce giant eBay has said it is repatriating almost $9bn (£5.3bn) of its cash held overseas back to the US.
The firm said the move, which will see it paying taxes of $3bn on the cash, would help it access...
Afghan troops backed by Western air power killed at least 60 militants in a battle near in southeastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan, Afghanistan's intelligence agency said on Wednesday.
Fighting began when about 300 insurgents from the Haqqani militant network and...
To both critics and supporters, it was "classic" John Kerry.
A day before the formal end of Kerry's quixotic, nine-month effort to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, the Secretary of State was surreptitiously taped making a comment that provoked a...
Hundreds of pro-Moscow separatists stormed government buildings in one of Ukraine's provincial capitals on Tuesday and fired on police holed up in a regional headquarters, a major escalation of their revolt despite new Western sanctions on Russia.
New U.S. and...
Asian shares struggled on Wednesday, while the yen strengthened to session highs after the Bank of Japan's latest upbeat economic projections suggested no additional stimulus was on the near-term horizon.
Overall, caution reigned ahead of the outcome of the Federal...
France's Alstom said on Wednesday it would review a binding offer from General Electric for its energy business by the end of May but left the door open for a competing bid from Germany's Siemens.
The decision to give Siemens...
Twitter Inc reported lackluster user and usage growth for the second consecutive quarter on Tuesday, deepening investor concerns about its struggle to gain a mass following.
Twitter's stock fell more than 10 percent after hours to $38.05, below its post-initial...
That Nigeria has passed South Africa as Africa’s largest economy when calculated by Gross Domestic Product is almost old news. The coverage of that feat afforded Nigeria’s image a rare shining moment in the foreign media. As Uri Friedman...
At exactly 6am on Monday morning, I was rudely awoken by the sad breaking news of a bomb explosion in Nyanya, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory which reportedly resulted in scores of fatalities made up mostly of...