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Gas company Shin Shin apologizes for New Taipei gas explosion Central News Agency 2014-08-17 08:43 PM Taipei, Aug. 17 (CNA) The president of Shin Shin Natural Gas Co., the gas company implicated in Friday's gas explosion in New Taipei, apologized Sunday for the accident that killed at...

Brussels shooting suspect to fight French handover to Belgium AFP June 5, 2014, 6:48 am Paris (AFP) - Mehdi Nemmouche, the French Islamist arrested on suspicion of a triple murder at the Brussels Jewish Museum, is to contest being handed over by France to Belgium, his lawyer said Wednesday...

Finnish police find bodies of five babies in cellar AFP June 4, 2014, 11:02 pm Helsinki (AFP) - A 35-year-old woman has been detained in Finland after the bodies of five apparently stillborn babies were found in the basement of a block of flats, police said Wednesday. They made the grim...

Swiss economy stumbles in fourth quarter Reuters February 27, 2014, 6:13 pm Reuters A worker grabs pre-cast bars of gold at a plant of refiner and bar manufacturer Argor-Heraeus SA in the southern Swiss town of Mendrisio, March 1, 2012. REUTERS/Pascal Lauener ZURICH (Reuters) -...

German ex-president Wulff cleared in favours trial AFP February 28, 2014, 12:31 am BERLIN (AFP) - A court on Thursday cleared former German president Christian Wulff of influence-peddling, closing a high-profile case that sparked the resignation of the former head of state two years ago...

Soldier shoots dead five colleagues, self in Indian Kashmir AFP February 27, 2014, 11:10 pm Srinagar (India) (AFP) - A soldier armed with two automatic weapons shot dead five of his colleagues as they slept early Thursday before killing himself in restive Indian Kashmir, police and the army...

Haze-hit Indonesian province declares emergency AFP February 27, 2014, 6:48 pm Jakarta (AFP) - An Indonesian province at the heart of a Southeast Asian smog crisis last year has declared a state of emergency after being blanketed in thick haze from forest fires, officials said Thursday...

Chess world champ Carlsen launches app and criticises own game By Gwladys Fouche OSLO Tue Feb 25, 2014 6:42pm GMT Norwegian chess world champion Magnus Carlsen reacts while attending the Norwegian Sports Gala in Oslo January 4, 2014. REUTERS/Audun Braastad/NTB Scanpix (Reuters) - Norway's...

Jockey Murtagh retires to focus on training career Tue Feb 25, 2014 6:43pm GMT Jockey Johnny Murtagh rides Dancing Rain to the winners circle after winning The Oaks at Epsom Racecourse in southern England June 3, 2011. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett (Reuters) - Irish jockey Johnny Murtagh, winner...

Ukraine moves U.S. friendly to Cyprus from Kharkiv KIEV Tue Feb 25, 2014 2:24pm GMT (Reuters) - Ukraine's football friendly against the United States next month, scheduled to take place in Kharkiv, has been moved to Cyprus due to the unstable political situation, Ukraine's football...

Ex-Guantanamo UK man arrested AAP February 25, 2014, 10:31 pm Three men and a woman have been arrested in the UK on suspicion of terror offences. PAA British former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg is among the four people who have been arrested in the UK on suspicion of Syria-related...

Pitbull and Ke$ha top British music charts Reuters January 6, 2014, 6:01 am Pitbull performs his song "Timber" with Ke$ha (L) at the 41st American Music Awards in Los Angeles, California November 24, 2013. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson LONDON (Reuters) - American musicians Ke$ha and Pitbull...

Eurythmics to reunite for Beatles tribute concert Reuters January 7, 2014, 6:10 am Dave Stewart (L) and Annie Lennox of Eurythmics arrive at the 2005 American Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles November 22, 2005. REUTERS/Chris Pizzello - RTR1BIWO LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -...

Digital music downloads fall AAP January 5, 2014, 12:17 am Digital music sales fell 5.7 per cent in 2013, with experts attributing the drop to an increase in online streaming services. Individual song downloads dropped from 1.34 billion in 2012 to 1.26 billion in 2013, the largest drop since...

'NSA broke into' Yahoo, Google data AP October 31, 2013, 4:53 am The US National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centres around the world, the Washington Post reports. The newspaper cites documents obtained from former...

Australia goes to the polls with Tony Abbott confident of becoming next Prime Minister Tony Abbott has cast his vote in the Australian election and appeared "supremely confident" after final polls showed he was headed for a landslide victory against Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Tony Abbott...

Fireball outshines moon FIRST POSTED: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 05, 2013 10:21 AM EDT | UPDATED: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 05, 2013 10:36 AM EDT <iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/cVlJWPGP7q4?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" width="480"></iframe> A fireball lit up the sky in the...

Suspected Islamists cut throats of 44 people in the Nigerian village of Dumba AP AUGUST 25, 2013 1:51AM Islamic insurgents are estimated to have killed some 1700 people in northern Nigeria in the last three years. Picture: Issouf Sanogo/AFP Source: AFP SUSPECTED Islamist extremists have...

Northern Ireland clashes leave 56 police, 2 civilians injured People walk past a burning car after loyalist protesters attacked the police with bricks and bottles as they waited for a republican parade to make its way through Belfast City Centre, August 9, 2013. REUTERS-Cathal McNaughton...

Samsung bets on storage devices as smartphone sales growth wanes The logo of Samsung Electronics is seen at the company's headquarters in Seoul July 6, 2012.REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won By Miyoung Kim SEOUL | Thu Jul 18, 2013 1:54am EDT (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co on Thursday launched storage...