Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed teenager Michael Brown in a confrontation in August, has resigned from the Ferguson Police Department nearly four months after the confrontation that fueled protests in the St. Louis suburb and across the ...
Egyptian police used tear gas and water cannon against more than 1,000 protesters upset with Saturday's acquittal of former President Hosni Mubarak in the deaths of anti-government demonstrators in 2011.
Militants from the Islamic State launched an attack on Kobane from Turkey for the first time today - indicating that the Syrian border town is now totally surrounded.
Earlier this week, we reported that Sony might soon launch its own e-ink smartwatch and now we know what the company really had up its sleeves: the FES Watch.
[Editor's note: PFT has obtained a copy of a memo sent Friday to the chief executives and club presidents of every team by NFL general counsel Jeff Pash.
PARIS: Returning from the political wilderness, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has taken a big step toward a possible re-election bid by winning the leadership of the conservative party.
FILE- In this Oct. 18, 2011 file photo, former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo speaks from the podium at the Game Changers Awards at Skylight Soho in New York.
NORTHFIELD, N.H. (CBS) - A Rhode Island man was arrested Saturday morning after allegedly driving at speeds up to 127 mph on a New Hampshire highway, according to New Hampshire State Police.
Police have been called to supermarkets across the UK amid crowd surges as people hunt for "Black Friday" offers. Greater Manchester Police appealed for calm after attending seven Tesco shops, at which three men were arrested and a woman was hit by a ...
Thanksgiving has passed, Black Friday has come and gone, Cyber Monday is just around the corner - and the December holidays are a few short weeks away. Of course, there's still time to fine-tune y…our holiday campaigns, both on and offline. This weekend's roundup is chockfull of holiday retail resources and data you can use to make the most of the final weeks of 2014. Enjoy! Estimote Launches New Platform For Beacon Management At Scale -...
Retailers have rung up record sales with Christmas shoppers heading online in search of bargains. Black Friday was Amazon UK's busiest ever day with customers placing orders for more than 5.5 million goods, working out at 64 items sold every second.
Thanksgiving has passed, Black Friday has come and gone, Cyber Monday is just around the corner - and the December holidays are a few short weeks away. Of course, there's still time to fine-tune y…our holiday campaigns, both on and offline. This weekend's roundup is chockfull of holiday retail resources and data you can use to make the most of the final weeks of 2014. Enjoy! Estimote Launches New Platform For Beacon Management At Scale -...
Thanksgiving is the most all-American of holidays, but Black Friday has gone global. From England to South Africa, Sweden to Senegal, deals and steals abound, welcoming the greedy gift season.
STRIKING PHOTOS: Walmart Workers Across the Country Walk Out and Protest on Black Friday As AlterNet's Alyssa Figueroa notes, today thousands of Walmart workers are going on strike, and are join…ed by many others protesting alongside them. Figueroa interviewed one worker, Victoria Alvarez, who after five years of Walmart service only earns $11 an hour and almost lost her mobile home due to her low wages.
As this year's Black Friday Deals concluded, consumers are rushing towards web's Cyber Monday deals. People are still wondering which tech gadgets to purchase as a gift to their beloved ones, that too without breaking their banks.
At least five new movies from Sony Pictures are being devoured on copyright-infringing file-sharing hubs online in the wake of the hack attack that hobbled the studio earlier in the week.
One of my most popular posts here on Forbes was an initial quick-hit review of the Microsoft Surface Pro 3. The first few Microsoft Surface-branded devices were all well-built products that featured quality materials and innovative designs, but consumers didn't ...
Director JJ Abrams said he wanted to give people a "tiny peek" of what he had been working on. The trailer has already been dissected by fans and is trending on social media.
GREEN BAY, Wis. - The Patriots' visit to the Packers Sunday is both a potential Super Bowl preview and a true oddity. It doesn't seem possible that this matchup of AFC and NFC heavyweights also marks the first time Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers - two of ...
TORONTO (AP) - Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan is going to be out an indefinite period with a torn tendon in his left groin. The durable All-Star was injured during the third quarter of Friday night's 106-102 loss to the Dallas Mavericks.
Toronto Raptors' DeMar DeRozan out indefinitely - The All-Star suffered the injury during the third quarter of the Raptors 106-102 loss to the Dallas Mavericks on Friday.Tests revealed the injury,… with the Raptors saying there is no timetable for his return to basketball activity.DeRozan has averaged 19.4 points, 4.2 rebounds and 2.6 assists this season, helping the Raptors to a 13-3 win-loss record.The Raptors are top of the Easte ... http://ow.ly/2RoSIM
New York Red Bulls defender Jamison Olave, left, pressures New England's Charlie Davies during the first half of a Major League Soccer Eastern Conference playoff final at Gillette Stadium on Saturday, November 29, 2014.
Japan on Monday will launch a space probe on a six-year mission to mine a distant asteroid after the event was postponed due to bad weather, officials said.
Dr. Martin Salia didn't get into the medical profession to get rich, and even though he was a permanent U.S. resident, he chose to work in his native Sierra Leone because the need for surgeons there was so great.
Ebola toll nears 7,000: WHO - Geneva AFP - Nearly 7,000 people have now died from Ebola in west Africa, with the latest numbers from the World Health Organization counting over 1,200 more deaths than …in a toll given on Wednesday.Data published by the UNs health body late Friday showed that 16,169 people had been infected with Ebola and that 6,928 of them had died in the three countries at the centre of the outbreak -- S ... http://ow.ly/2Ro2fd
President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita said Mali is Ebola-free after the last confirmed case was cured. The country has had seven confirmed case and one probable case after the virus spread from Guinea -- its neighboring country.
The federal government is on the brink of lifting restrictions put in place more than three decades ago when regulators, alarmed by the spread of the virus that causes AIDS, barred men who had sex with other men from donating blood.
The first human trial of an experimental Ebola vaccine has produced promising results, U.S. scientists said, raising hopes that protection from the deadly disease may be on the horizon.
In the early and mid 1980s, HIV almost always led to AIDS; a positive test was a death sentence. Today, new drugs make it possible to keep the virus from replicating and progressing into AIDS.
