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At least 140 soldiers and officers were killed when Taliban militants attacked an Afghan army base in northern Balkh province on Friday.According to reports Saturday, dozens more were wounded.The attack took place at an army command centre a few

A police officer has died and two are seriously wounded after a shooting near the Champs-Elysees boulevard in Paris.Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack, in which the officer was said to have been killed while in a car before the

Facebook is working to create a data input method that doesn’t rely on a keyboard, but instead allows the user to type directly from the brain, the company said at its two-day developers conference in San Jose, California.“In a few years

Seoul (dpa) – Forensics experts in South Korea have identified one of nine bodies which have been missing since a ferry accident in 2014.The body could be identified using dental records as belonging to a 17-year-old female student named Huh

Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, said Tuesday that a lot of work needs to be done to prevent tragedies like the one that unfolded on Facebook this past week.Zuckerbrg said that “we will we will keep doing all we can to prevent tragedies like

Cameroonian authorities have been urged to restore internet connection to protesting English-speaking regions of the north-west and south-west. The regions are involved in demonstrations against alleged marginalisation by the government.Authorities

Britain’s largest opposition party, Labour, welcomed Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan to hold a general election on June eight.Labour leader, Jeremy Corbin, said the snap election will give the British people the chance to vote for a

Facebook said that a mansuspected of fatally shooting another man in Cleveland posted a video of the killing on Facebook, but did not broadcast it live.In a statement, Facebook said suspect 37-year-old Steve Stephensdid go live at one point during

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The number of militants killed in an attack by the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the U.S. military has risen to 94, an Afghan official said Saturday.Ataullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial