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Two police wounded in bomb attack in Istanbul tourist district: reports
Two policemen were wounded Tuesday when an attacker threw a hand grenade in the busy main tourist district of central Istanbul.
07 January 2015
Sony chief thanks supporters after 'vicious' cyber attack
Sony chief Kazuo Hirai spoke for the first time publicly about the cyber attack that derailed launch of controversial comedy "The Interview".
06 January 2015
Boston bombing trial opens with jury selection
The long-awaited trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev began with jury selection, 20 months after the shocking attack.
06 January 2015
Buckingham Palace in fresh denial of Andrew sex claims
Buckingham Palace issued a new denial of allegations that a US woman was kept as an underage "sex slave" and forced to have sexual relations with Britain's Prince Andrew.
05 January 2015
Lawsuit accuses Apple of storage sleight of hand
Apple faced a lawsuit accusing it of promising more available storage space than it actually delivers in iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch devices.
03 January 2015
US slaps sanctions on North Korea after Sony hack
The United States imposed new sanctions on North Korea in retaliation for a cyber attack on Hollywood studio Sony Pictures.
03 January 2015
Viennese prosecutors charge Rakhat Aliyev with double-murder
Austrian prosecutors have formally charged the fugitive Kazakh tycoon Rakhat Aliyev with murdering two bankers in Kazakhstan in 2007.
02 January 2015
Body found in sea search for AirAsia: Indonesian search and rescue
A body was found in the sea Tuesday during the search for missing AirAsia flight QZ8501, Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency chief said.
30 December 2014
Items resembling slide, plane door seen in AirAsia search
Items resembling an emergency slide, plane door and other objects were spotted in the sea during an aerial search Tuesday for missing AirAsia flight QZ8501.
30 December 2014
China blocks access to Google e-mail service
China has blocked the last remaining way to access Google's popular e-mail service, as authorities work to establish "Internet sovereignty".
30 December 2014
New York mayor greeted by heckles at police ceremony
Simmering tensions between the city of New York's police force and its top official boiled over again into public view.
30 December 2014
Indonesia resumes search for missing AirAsia plane
Indonesia resumed a sea and aerial search at dawn for an AirAsia plane that went missing in the Java Sea with 162 people on board.
29 December 2014
No escape for those stuck in Malaysian 'forced labour'
Toiling 12 hours a day in a Malaysian electronics factory amid broken promises on wages and working conditions, Manu dreams of returning to his poor Nepal village.
28 December 2014
Sea of blue mourns slain New York cop
Tens of thousands of officers paid tribute to one of their own at a New York funeral, as emotions ran high over recent protests against police violence.
28 December 2014
PlayStation, Xbox service in US goes down on Christmas
Online hackers have taken credit for an online service outage of Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox game consoles.
26 December 2014
Thousands flee deadly violence in India's Assam
More than 2,000 people have fled their homes in the restive Indian state of Assam after separatist rebels killed dozens of villagers, some of them children.
25 December 2014
Ban Ki-moon condemns Jordan pilot kidnapping
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed his "concern" over a Jordanian pilot captured by the Islamic State jihadist group after his plane went down in Syria.
25 December 2014
Protesters defy New York call for moratorium
A national coalition of activists rejected calls to suspend anti-police protests in New York after two officers were murdered.
24 December 2014
Australia fears fresh attacks as Sydney mourns siege victims
Australian Prime Minister warned of heightened "terrorist chatter" in the aftermath of the fatal Sydney cafe siege and said another attack was likely.
23 December 2014
French PM calls for 'vigilance' after three attacks
French Prime Minister called for "vigilance" after the country was hit by three bizarre attacks in quick succession, sparking fears of possible copycat action.
23 December 2014