PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia - The first proof of the fate of AirAsia Flight 8501 emerged Tuesday from the shallow, aqua-colored waters of the Java Sea, confirming that the plane crashed with 162 people aboard in an area not far from where it dropped off ...
MOSCOW - The police in Moscow briefly detained the anticorruption crusader and political opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny on Tuesday as he tried to join an unauthorized, antigovernment rally, just hours after a Moscow court had given him a ...
Ebola nurse treated in London as Sierra Leone rate spikes - London (AFP) - A volunteer nurse who contracted Ebola in west Africa was being treated at an isolation unit in a specialist London hospital …on Tuesday as infection rates increased in eastern Sierra Leone. The woman, who returned Sunday from a treatment facility in Kerry Town in Sierra Leone run by the Save the Children charity, was transferred overnight from a Glasgow hospital in a Royal...
Introduced Tuesday as Michigan's coach, Jim Harbaugh said he followed his "heart" rather than hold out for more money and another opportunity in the NFL.
WASHINGTON - Home prices in the United States rose in October at a slightly slower pace, as real estate sales have fallen and affordability has increasingly become a challenge for potential buyers.
ATHENS (Reuters) - Italian officials boarded a cargo ship carrying hundreds of migrants on Tuesday after it left Greek waters and headed towards the coast of southern Italy, the navy said.
SEOUL, South Korea - A South Korean court on Tuesday approved the arrest of a former Korean Air Lines Co. executive who delayed a flight over a bag of macadamia nuts.
A senior Shabab militia leader was killed by a U.S. airstrike in southwestern Somalia, according to U.S. and Somali officials. lRelated Pentagon discloses airstrike against senior Somali militant leader · Africa · Pentagon discloses airstrike against senior Somali ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - When Vladimir Putin was handed power unexpectedly by an ailing Boris Yeltsin on the last day of the last century, his first move was to go on television to guarantee Russia the freedoms needed for a "civilized society".
The university has shut down its Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity chapter due to hazing allegations, according to Fox Connecticut. In a statement to Fox Connecticut, Vice President for Public Affairs Lynn Bushnell said, “One student, who is a member of TKE, has ...
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republican leaders rallied around one of their own, Whip Steve Scalise, on Tuesday after he said he regrets speaking 12 years ago to a white supremacist organization and condemns the views of such groups.
Stocks fell Tuesday as the S&P 500 pulled back from a record high and the Dow tumbled back below the 18,000 mark. In afternoon trading, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 0.3% and fell back below the 18,000 mark.
A shopper loads his Samsung big screen TV after purchasing it at a Walmart in Fairfax, Va. in November. paul j. richards/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images.
Digital technology in the workplace - e-mail, Internet access and smartphones - increases worker productivity and flexibility but possibly at a price: a longer workday.
Samsung is trying to smash the status quo in PCs with a new all-in-one desktop computer that has a curved screen. The idea for the Ativ One 7 Curved came partly from Samsung's TVs, which already have curved displays.
Access to Gmail in China is returning after a four-day outage. The Financial Times on Tuesday reported that Gmail users in China are re-gaining access to their inboxes, though some are still experiencing delays in receiving emails.
Yesterday we talked a bit about Gmail problems in China and the fact that some in the country were blaming the outage on China’s massive firewall known as the Great Firewall. Chinese state media has a…nnounced that the issue with Gmail in the country is…
A security firm has brought new evidence to the FBI that it claims points to a laid-off employee and others as the hackers behind the massive cyber-breach at Sony, even as the bureau publicly stands by its explanation that North Korea executed the attack.
The FBI may be convinced that the Sony hack was the handiwork of North Korea, but not everyone is convinced, with private investigators briefing US security agencies on alternative explanations for th…e breach. Security firm Norse has joined a growing…
Samsung today launched an online portal, dubbed Milk VR, for users of its recently released Gear VR headset, which will let them share 360-degree, spherical videos viewable with the Galaxy Note 4-driven virtual reality device.
"It's not really something I think about," she told Redbook magazine's February issue. "Things are different now, and I know a lot of the work that paved the way for women happened before I was around ... I was never that feminist girl demanding equality, but ...
Jeremy Renner and his wife are headed for divorce after just 10 months of marriage. TMZ was the first to report that Renner's wife, Sonni Pacheco, filed for divorce earlier this month.
Luise Rainer, back-to-back Oscar winner (in 1936 & 37), has died of pneumonia at 104. “For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me,” Rainer on…ce lamented. That's because her Oscar fame led MGM to cast her against her will in “all kinds of nonsense … I didn’t want to do it, and I walked out,” she recalled. “Mayer said, ‘That girl is a Frankenstein, she’s going to ruin our whole firm.’ H...
That's the takeaway from Fandango's survey of the most anticipated films of 2015. The online ticketing company found that “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is the film that moviegoers are most jazzed to see next year, while “Avengers: Age of Ultron” has to ...
Oregon has seen plenty of potent offenses playing in the Pac-12, but the Ducks view FSU as a different entity. Oregon's Troy Hill: "I don't think we've seen an offense like that.
Belize’s ‘Blue Hole’ May Hold Clues to Mayan Demise It turns out Belize's Blue Hole is more than just spectacularly beautiful, it also holds clues to the fate of one of the most dominant civiliz…ations of its time: the Mayans. Perhaps California should take note... "The ancient Mayan civilization collapsed due to a century-long drought, new research suggests. Minerals taken from Belize’s famous underwater cave, known as the Blue Hole...
