Russian troops consolidated their hold on Ukraine's Crimean peninsula as the United States and others denounced the military movement, deepening the East-West standoff over the future of Ukraine.
Ukraine Orders Full Military Mobilization, Acting PM Says Russian Actions "Declaration Of War" With less than 6 hours left until FX trading opens, no resolution to the Ukraine crisis is in s…ight. Instead the situation has devolved even more and overnight Ukraine has ordered a full military mobilization in response to Russia's build-up of its forces in Crimea. Prime Minster Arseniy Yatsenyuk said the country was "on the brink of...
G-7 Leaders Statement (Just In From The White House) We, the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States and the President of the European Council and… President of the European Commission, join together today to condemn the Russian Federation’s clear violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, in contravention of Russia’s obligations under the UN Charter and its 1997 basing ...
Who was honored at Hollywood's biggest night, the 86th annual Academy Awards? Here's a full list of winners and nominees from Sunday's show, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres: Best picture.
AVONDALE, Ariz. - Kevin Harvick crashed Junior Nation's party on Sunday. Dale Earnhardt Jr. tried everything he could to give his fans another win after his Daytona 500 victory a week ago, but Harvick would have none of it.
Jared Leto won the Academy Award for supporting actor Sunday for his portrayal of Rayon, a big-hearted transsexual combating AIDS, in the film "Dallas Buyers Club.
KUNMING, March 2 (Xinhua) -- The Changshui International Airport in Kunming of southwest China's Yunnan Province has stepped up security checks on Sunday following the Saturday terrorist attack that left 29 civilians dead and more than 130 injured.
Dozens dead in knife attack at China train station This horrendous knife attack leaving approximately 30 dead and 130 wounded is just another example illustrating the fact that the problem is with t…he "Godless Heart of Man" instead of "Guns". In fact armed concealed carry citizens could have stopped this train station attack almost as soon as it started! "BEIJING – China has suffered one of its deadliest ever acts ...
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea said Monday it will deport an Australian missionary detained for spreading Christianity in the country, saying he apologized for his anti-state religious acts and requested forgiveness.
BRUSSELS, March 2 (Xinhua) -- The NATO on Sunday condemned Russia's "military escalation" in Crimea of southern Ukraine and expressed "grave concern" regarding the authorization by the Russian Parliament to use armed forces on the territory of ...
Another round of blistering snow and ice is taking aim at the East Coast, forcing winter-weary residents to brace for a storm that is slamming the Midwest.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Police arrested hundreds of young people protesting the Keystone XL project on Sunday, as demonstrators fastened themselves with plastic ties to the White House fences and called for U.S.
NEW YORK - New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who plans to skip the nation's largest St. Patrick's Day parade because participants are banned from carrying signs or banners identifying themselves as gay, joined the gay-friendly St. Pat's For All Parade ...
A pedestrian walks on the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington during the start of a major snowstorm, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014. Many government offices and schools closed before the first flake of snow, but there were signs Tuesday that significant winter ...
Even the world's most successful investors can get it wrong. Step forward Warren Buffett, the billionaire founder of Berkshire Hathaway, who has admitted to an investment that has lost him nearly $900m (£537m) - after he failed to consult his long-time ...
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. - Rory McIlroy took a three-stroke lead to the seventh tee in Sunday's final round of the Honda Classic and seemed in total control to finish off a wire-to-wire tour de force.
VANCOUVER - For Hayley Wickenheiser, the chance to celebrate her gold medal from the 2014 Sochi Olympics with a packed house at the 2014 Tim Hortons NHL Heritage Classic at BC Place in Vancouver felt like coming home.
Want a chance to win a prize pack valued at $600, featuring this Authentic Team Canada Olympic jersey? Join Adam Proteau at 4:00 pm Eastern on @TheHockeyNews Twitter account to participate in our Hond…a #THNLive event for the Heritage Classic game between the Ottawa Senators and Vancouver Canucks. Tweet us @TheHockeyNews with the hashtag #THNLive to join the conversation. This contest is for Canada only, Quebec excluded.
DeMar DeRozan scored 32 points, Kyle Lowry had 13 and the Toronto Raptors beat Golden State, 104-98, on Sunday, their first victory in eight tries against Warriors guard Stephen Curry.
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Felix Doubront, the first member of the Red Sox's projected rotation to make a start this spring, fired two strong innings in Sunday's 8-6 victory over the Orioles.
M83, a nearby spiral galaxy, has recently provided astronomers and scientists with exciting new information. The latest it has to offer is a detailed black hole named MQ1, which Australian astronomers found earlier this week.
It looks like the gatekeepers took a long, long lunch. And while they were out, more than 120 computer-generated research papers made their way into scholarly journals and even, in some cases, were published online at conferences.
MELBOURNE, Fla. - Sometime in the future, a man - or woman - may step onto the arid, red surface of Mars and, for a moment, set aside science before staring off into the distance of space to say a prayer.
What Four Months on Mars Taught Me About Boredom What follows is an account of an instance where I, a person of relatively sound mind and body, could not believe the evidence before my own eyes. It …might not have been a hallucination that I experienced, but it was surely a great jolt of consciousness. The scene: I’m in my closet-sized cabin, inside a white dome built to house a crew of six for four months as part of an isolation experiment. As ...
Mars was wet once, according to a Martian meteorite found on Antarctica. This particular Mars rock turns out to be very special. It was born in a lava flow 1.3 billion years ago and was ejected from the Martian gravitational field by an ancient impact with an ...
Babies are being born without parts of skulls and brains four times more often than normal in Washington state. The cause of this fatal birth defect remains a mystery.
