Manchester City sacked manager Roberto Mancini on Monday after the Italian's future had been in doubt for several months following his team's feeble defence of the Premier League title.
Manchester United regained the title last month with four games to spare and City were then beaten 1-0 by Wigan (...)
Sexual assaults in the US military are a growing epidemic across the services and thousands of victims are still unwilling to come forward despite a slew of new oversight and assistance programs, according to a new Pentagon report.
Troubling new numbers estimate that up to 26,000 military members (...)
Iowa Fertilizer Company LLC (Iowa Fertilizer), a wholly owned subsidiary of Orascom Construction Industries (OCIC.CA), announced on Thursday that it has issued approximately US$ 1.2 billion of bonds to institutional and retail investors in the US tax-exempt market through the Iowa Finance (...)
The Building and Development Party (BDP), the political wing of Al-Jama'a Al-Islamiya filed a lawsuit against Chairman of the Judges' Club Ahmed Al-Zind for encouraging the United States to interfere in Egypt's affairs.
The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday with the Prosecutor General Tala'at Abdallah (...)
Mirror, mirror on the wall, are my bulges big or small? Chances are the answer is disconcerting. Now that we are ready to air our skimpy, slinky outfits for the long, hot summer ahead, we may be dismayed to discover that some things do not fit any more. What was well hidden under long, heavy winter (...)
Google has for the first time agreed to legally binding changes to its search results after an antitrust investigation by European regulators into whether it abuses its dominance of online search.
After a two-year inquiry, the European Commission has accepted Google's proposed settlement, according (...)
Social media website Facebook announced on Thursday the release of its first mobile phone, known as ‘First', to be produced by Taiwanese company HTC.
The phone, which will run on an Android operating system, will also be equipped with Facebook's new ‘Home' application, itself a collection of (...)
The United Nations human rights chief today urged all branches of the United States Government to work together to close the Guantánamo detention center, stressing that the indefinite incarceration of detainees is a clear breach of international law.
“I am deeply disappointed that the US Government (...)
Egypt's exports to the United States under the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) programme totalled $50m, said Anwar Sahragti, president of the Egyptian Commercial Service (ECS). He added that this was a small sum when compared to countries such as Thailand, whose exports under the same (...)
Maria Sharapova will face Serena Williams in the final of the Sony Open while Britain's Andy Murray will take on France's Richard Gasquet in the men's semi-finals after grinding down Croatian Marin Cilic
World number one Williams needed just 65 minutes to deal with fourth seeded defending champion (...)
Abu Hamza al-Masri, the handless Islamic cleric awaiting trial on US terrorism charges, has got a new set of prosthetics and will have access to a laptop computer to review evidence in his cell
The jail holding Abu Hamza al-Masri, the handless Islamic cleric awaiting trial on U.S. terrorism (...)
The Administrative Court ruled on Saturday to block the implementation of a ban on video sharing site YouTube for 30 days. The court will re-examine the case in one month after further consideration.
The Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) reported on Saturday that the court's (...)
Prosecutor Hazem Salah ordered the arrest of five individuals suspected of being the founders and leaders of the Egyptian Black Bloc on Thursday morning.
The decision was based on reports received by the prosecution from public security and the intelligence and documentation sectors of the Ministry (...)
Hindus have applauded Vernon Board of Education in Connecticut (USA) for approval of offering yoga to fourth graders in its Maple Street School, and have urged all schools in USA to do the same for their pupils.
According to reports, Board of Education of Vernon Public Schools, in its February 25 (...)
Hindus have commended Glenside Elementary in Reading (Pennsylvania, USA) for reportedly introducing yoga and have urged all schools in USA to do the same for their pupils.
Calling it a “step in the right direction", distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, (...)
The Obama administration, in coordination with some European allies, is for the first time considering supplying direct assistance to elements of the Free Syrian Army as they seek to ramp up pressure on Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down and end nearly two years of brutal and increasingly (...)
HP's Slate 7 fails to impress
It looks as though the earlier reports were true: HP is getting back into the tablet game, and this time it's operating system of choice is Android. HP inherited the webOS operating system with its acquisition of palm back in 2010, but did little to advance the (...)
Public prosecutor Kamal Mokhtar ordered the detention of preacher and television show host Ahmed Mohamed Abdallah, known as Abu Islam, for four days on remand following questioning.
The prosecution charged Abu Islam with contempt of religion, making statements that harm social peace and using (...)
Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is set to launch cheaper handset models in an attempt to fend off growing competition from Chinese rivals in the low-end market, company sources said on Friday.
The new models, due to be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress industry convention in Barcelona next (...)
يقيم الاتحاد العالمي للمصارعة الترفيهية "wwe" غداً الأحد العرض السنوي "elimation" chamber" أو حجرة الإقصاء لتحديد وضع المباريات النهائية التي سيشهدها عرض الرسلمانيا 29 في السابع من أبريل القادم.
وسيشهد حجرة الإقصاء 2013 مجموعة من المباريات النارية أبرزها مباراة على بطولة العالم للوزن الثقيل، وكذلك (...)
Barclays is to axe at least 3,700 jobs and prune its investment bank under a restructuring plan launched by its new chief executive on Tuesday which seeks to cut 1.7 billion pounds ($2.7 billion) in annual costs and improve standards.
Antony Jenkins said the job cuts will include 1,800 in corporate (...)
A British writer has written a book based on Jane Austen's classic novel "Pride and Prejudice" but told from the servants' point of view, its U.S. publisher said on Thursday.
In "Longbourn," which will be released later this year in the United States, writer Jo Baker focuses on a romance between (...)
A nuclear power plant in Massachusetts lost power and automatically shut down late on Friday during a massive blizzard across the northeastern United States, the nuclear regulator said.
The reactor at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth closed down with no problems and there was no threat (...)
America's Senator John Kerry was nominated by United States President Barack Obama to become the next secretary of state as Hillary Clinton declined to hold the portfolio in the administration of Obama's second term in office. Clinton expressed her fatigue with constant travel and bickering over (...)
Hackers claiming to be from the activist group Anonymous have hacked a US government website in response to the death of Aaron Swartz.
Activists embedded a video statement on the homepage of the United States Sentencing Commission, an agency of the US government.
The statement referred to the death (...)