Twitter flies on surprisingly strong numbersTwitter shares shot higher by some 30 percent after its quarterly report showed surprisingly strong revenue and user growth, despite a widening loss.
30 July 2014
With new default looming, Argentina urges calmArgentina admitted it may default on some of its debts but downplayed the consequences, just two days before time expires in negotiations with hedge funds demanding full payment on their bonds.
29 July 2014
Linda Ronstadt awarded White House arts honorLinda Ronstadt, who was the most successful female rocker of the 1970s and pioneered the role of women in that genre, was honored with the highest US arts prize.
Japan rolls out more sanctions over UkraineJapan announced it would impose additional sanctions against those responsible for the "annexation of Crimea and destabilisation of eastern Ukraine", without offering further details.
29 July 2014
North American box office loves 'Lucy'Director Luc Besson's action sci-fi thriller "Lucy," about a woman turned superhuman by using 100 percent of her brain, debuted at the top of the North American box office, estimates showed.
28 July 2014
Plane crash-lands on US beach, killing fatherA small plane crash-landed on a beach in the US state of Florida Sunday, killing a father and critically injuring his young daughter, authorities said.
28 July 2014
Two Americans, Freetown resident latest Ebola victimsAlarm soared in west Africa Monday over the deadliest Ebola virus outbreak yet, with an American doctor and a missionary contracting the disease in Liberia and the death of the first victim from Sierra Leone's capital Freetown.
28 July 2014
Eight hospitalized after US lightning strikeEight people, including a teenager, were taken to hospital Sunday following a freak lightning strike at bustling Venice Beach, the Los Angeles Fire Department said.
28 July 2014
Aruba releases Venezuelan wanted in US on drug chargesA Venezuelan ex-military intelligence chief arrested by Aruba at the United States' request on drug trafficking charges was freed Sunday and quickly returned home to Caracas, authorities said.
Obama, Central American leaders meet on child migrantsPresident Barack Obama met Friday with three Central American leaders to try to get control of an humanitarian crisis triggered by a tide of child migrants crossing the southern US border.
26 July 2014
US congratulates Iraq on electing new presidentThe United States on Thursday threw its weight behind the newly elected president of Iraq, Fuad Masum, and urged him to form a "cohesive government" to help fight Islamic militants.
26 July 2014
Iran confirms arrest of Washington Post correspondentTehran's chief justice Gholamhossein Esmaili on Friday confirmed the arrest of Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian and his wife, also a journalist, the official IRNA news agency reported.
26 July 2014
Chinese billionaires criticised for giving Harvard $15mA Chinese billionaire couple have faced a deluge of criticism for donating $15 million to one of the richest and most prestigious universities in the US, with Internet users saying it would be better spent on students in China.
25 July 2014
Paracetamol no better than placebo in low-back pain: studyParacetamol, the first-choice lower-back pain killer, worked no better than dummy drugs administered in a trial of more than 1,600 people suffering from the condition, researchers said
25 July 2014
Condemned man's US execution takes nearly two hoursAmerica's death penalty debate raged Thursday after it took nearly two hours for Arizona to execute a prisoner who lost a Supreme Court battle challenging the experimental lethal drug cocktail.