Everybody spies on everybody: ex-intel officers Europeans may express outrage over revelations of US spying but they know perfectly well how the espionage "game" is played -- everybody spies on everybody.
03 July 2013
Morsi refuses to step down amid fresh Egypt bloodshed Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi vowed he would not quit despite mass protests demanding his resignation and an army ultimatum as fresh deadly violence rocked capital Cairo.
China, Russia to hold naval drills: media China and Russia will hold their second joint naval exercises from Friday, state media said, as Beijing and Tokyo row over disputed islands in the East China Sea.
03 July 2013
Cambodian jungle graveyard mystifies experts Over a hundred "burial jars" and a dozen coffins arranged on a ledge in remote Cambodian jungle have for centuries held the bones -- and secrets -- of a mysterious people who lived alongside with the Angkor era.
Russian rocket releases toxic fuel after blast in KazakhstanAn unmanned Russian carrier rocket exploded on takeoff at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, releasing tonnes of highly toxic fuel into the air in the space programme's latest disaster caught on live television.
02 July 2013
Egypt's presidency rejects army ultimatum Egypt's presidency on Tuesday rejected an army ultimatum threatening to intervene if Islamist President Mohamed Morsi did not meet the demands of the people, raising the stakes in the country's political crisis.
Higgs evidence mounts one year on, so too the suspense A year since the discovery of a subatomic particle set the science world aflutter, evidence is mounting it may be the elusive Higgs boson even as researchers warn the suspense is far from over.
02 July 2013
Obama 'pressuring leaders' over extradition: Snowden Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden on Monday accused US President Barack Obama of "pressuring the leaders" of countries from which he has sought protection.
02 July 2013
Iraq attacks kill 41 as unrest surges Attacks north of Baghdad left 41 dead on Monday as the UN said more than 2,500 were killed in the past three months, highlighting concerns that Iraq is slipping back into all-out war.
02 July 2013
India launches satellite for new navigation system India launched the first of seven satellites for its domestic satellite navigation network Tuesday, its space centre said, in the first step to creating a scaled down version of the US Global Positioning System.
02 July 2013
Brief encounter for porn film at China railway station A maintenance worker surprised passers-by near a Chinese railway station when he started watching a banned porn film, not realising his computer was connected to a giant screen
Tennis: Kukushkin gains 34 lines in ATP rankingKazakhstan’s tennis professional Mikhail Kukushkin hsa gained 34 lines in the ATP ranking thanks to his success at the tournament in Marocco.