When Apple approached record companies about selling their music digitally five years ago, they “were extremely cautious and required Apple to protect their music from being illegally copied”, according to Steve Jobs’s recollection of the process.

President Bush went on foreign soil today, and committed what I consider an act of political treason: Comparing the candidate of the U.S. opposition party to appeasers of Nazi Germany — in the very nation that was carved out from the horrific calamity...

A shaky cease-fire appeared to take hold Tuesday in this capital’s Sadr City neighborhood, after a cleric who brokered the deal for Shiite Muslim fighters said they would honor it even after clashes left at least 11 dead and 19 wounded.

The pact was...

On Chicken Street, under the serene azure sky, it is almost possible to imagine that the last 30 years never happened. Kabul’s craft market is open for business, its rows of glass-fronted, two-storey shops replete with the iconic wares of the hippy...

An eight-year-old girl was strapped with remote-controlled explosives and used as a human bomb by Iraqi insurgents in a blast that killed an Iraqi commander earlier today.

the former governor of Arkansas and defeated contender for the GOP presidential nomination, is currently at the top of John McCain’s short list for a running mate. At least that’s the word from a top McCain fundraiser and longtime Republican moneyman...

In a sharp reversal of its longstanding accusations against Iran arming militants in Iraq , the US military has made an unprecedented albeit quiet confession: the weapons they had recently found in Iraq were not made in Iran at all.

The appointments proved that Mr Putin, the prime minister, rather than his protégé, will be the dominant figure in the bizarre duumvirate that now rules Russia.

Since he was sworn in six days ago, the new president has spoken in public for just 18...

A man who was suspected of drowning his 22-year-old sister for having an extramarital affair was charged Monday with premeditated murder, a judicial official said.

The unidentified woman’s brother beat her with the help of his family Saturday and...

If you’re the type who worries about the air miles travelled by fruit and veg, then these beauties aren’t for you.
Because they have travelled a little further than most. The seeds from which they grew were fired into space, where they orbited the...