A US Navy ship fired on a boat that ignored warnings off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, US officials say, with one person reported killed.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney calls on the Obama campaign to back away from "dishonest" attacks about his time at Bain Capital.
Fourteen-time major champion Tiger Woods and Justin Rose are drawn together for the first two rounds of the Open for the fourth time.
The sudden death of Sylvester Stallone's 36-year-old son Sage - with whom he appeared in 1990's Rocky V - leaves the star "devastated and grief-stricken".
Every additional hour of television watched by children aged between two and four years old could add half a millimetre to their waist circumference, says a Canadian study.
A big drop in peer-to-peer traffic following a court order to block file-sharing site The Pirate Bay was short-lived, a major ISP tells the BBC.
Researchers unveil a simple new means to see through "scattering" materials such as frosted glass, or even see around corners.
Or have humans reached their speed limit?
After decades of promise could the plan become a reality?
The Olympic athletes who immigrated to the USA.
Algunos países han aprobado regulaciones o iniciaron juicios contra determinadas páginas de internet pero a la hora de la verdad ¿tienen estas medidas algún impacto? BBC Mundo describe cuán en serio se toman las autoridades este asunto.
香港政治评论员刘锐绍对BBC中文网说,香港特首梁振英首次参加立法会问答大会时避重就轻,令人失望。
تبادل المغرب وسوريا الاثنين طرد السفراء، في أحدث تطور دبلوماسي تشهده الأزمة السياسية المستمرة في سوريا منذ 16 شهرا.
نیروی دریایی آمریکا می گوید که یک کشتی جنگی این کشور در نزدیکی بندر جبلعلی امارات متحده عربی، به سوی یک شناور کوچک که به هشدارهای کشتی آمریکایی توجه نکرده، شلیک کرده است. گفته می شود در این واقعه یک نفر کشته شده است.
Wafaa Ghaly visits the Edgware Road, a little piece of the Middle East in the heart of the UK capital.
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