Reuters

Valtteri Bottas gave Finland another presence on the Formula One podium on Sunday.

Taliban attacked the NATO air base at Jalalabad airport in Afghanistan.

Andy Murray split with Ivan Lendl and has gone with Amelie Mauresmo.

U.S. intelligence agencies have repeatedly warned top government officials that Iraq's Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al Maliki and his policies were gravely antagonizing his country's Sunni population, two U.S. security officials said on Friday.

Coordinates posted on China's Maritime Safety Administration's website showed the Nanhai number 2 and 5 rigs had been deployed roughly between southern China and the Pratas islands, The Nanhai 4 rig was towed close to the Chinese coast.

The order by U.S. District Judge Paul Gardephe in New York covers both the committee and Brian Sutter, staff director for its healthcare subcommittee and came at the SEC's request.

Poroshenko is under pressure to secure support from Russia, as well as his backers in the West.

A source close to Maliki told Reuters that the government planned to hit back now that it had halted ISIL's advance.

The new fighting on Friday was about 100 km (60 miles) from the border with Russia.

The debt package exceeds $40 billion and includes a bridge loan of roughly $20 billion from Japan's Softbank Corp to Sprint.

The watch, which remains unnamed but which company followers have dubbed the iWatch, will be Apple's first foray into a niche product category that many remain skeptical about.

A U.S. judge on Thursday said she had concerns about approving a $324.5 million settlement involving Apple, Google and two other tech companies in a lawsuit accusing them of conspiring to avoid poaching each other's workers.

Talks are nevertheless expected between the two sides in New York next week.

Poroshenko was due later on Thursday to meet regional officials from the Donetsk and Luhansk areas of eastern Ukraine.

Video aired by Al-Arabiya television showed smoke billowing from the plant and a black flag used by ISIL flying from a building.

Despite a few programs for junior officials to disclose their assets, public discussion about senior leaders’ wealth remains off limits.

Biden's warning came as fighting continued in the east, which has killed 147 Ukrainian soldiers and wounded hundreds more.

John R. Henry's death was the third U.S. execution since a botched injection in Oklahoma in April renewed a national debate over capital punishment.

As Obama held an hour-long meeting with congressional leaders on U.S. options in Iraq, administration officials joined a chorus of criticism of Maliki, faulting him for failing to heal sectarian rifts that militants have exploited.

Hong Kong's longstanding push for full democracy is reaching what could be boiling point with tens of thousands expected to vote in the unofficial referendum for full democracy from Friday until Sunday.

The measure comes as officials in the most populous U.S. state continue to wrestle with whether to appeal the ruling by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge, which overturned five laws meant to protect teachers' jobs.

"Economic activity is rebounding in the current quarter and will continue to expand at a moderate pace."

The golf star could have played for Great Britain.

The fighters are led by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria which aims to build a caliphate ruled on medieval precepts.

The boat, whose passengers included women and children, sank at the mouth of a river shortly after midnight.

Two Russian state-television journalists were killed in shelling near the eastern city of Luhansk.

Ireland's first Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley returns to action on home soil this week fired up by German Martin Kaymer's emphatic US Open triumph last Sunday.

Washington wants Maliki to do more to address the widespread sense of political exclusion among minority Sunnis in Iraq.

Imports of hot-rolled, flat-rolled, carbon-quality steel products from Russia rose 162 percent in the three months through April, compared with the previous three-month period, Reuters reported in an exclusive article.