Global wine consumption fell marginally in 2013 and the United States outstripped France as the top consumer, the International Organisation of Wine and Vine (OIV) said Tuesday. Consumption dipped 1 percent last year to 238.7 hectolitres of wine in…
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Middle-aged municipal worker Masha bent down in her green parks department overall to tend the pristine flowerbeds on a tree-lined avenue in downtown Donetsk. “We don’t know who will be paying our salaries from now on,” she said, digging around in the…
France coach Didier Deschamps on Tuesday left Manchester City midfielder Samir Nasri out of a young 23-man squad for this year’s World Cup in Brazil. Neither 26-year-old Nasri, who has won 41 caps, nor Monaco captain Eric Abidal, capped 67 times, feature…
Nigeria on Tuesday said it was willing to talk to Boko Haram militants, as the United States sent its top Africa general for talks on the rescue mission of more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls. The governor of Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, Kashim…
Chelsea captain John Terry ended speculation over his future by signing a one-year contract extension with the Premier League club on Tuesday. Terry is said to have turned lucrative offers from foreign teams to extend his stay at Stamford Bridge after…
The EU was intensifying diplomatic efforts Tuesday to get Ukraine’s leadership and pro-Moscow rebels to the negotiating table, as the OSCE said Moscow supports a de-escalation roadmap for the crisis. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier kicks…
Oscar Pistorius’s murder trial debated his mental state Tuesday, as the athlete faced a possible stint in a psychiatric hospital to establish if he has a “general anxiety disorder.” Under cross-examination on Tuesday, defence psychiatrist Meryll Vorster…
Damian Lillard scored 25 points as the Portland Trail Blazers stayed alive in the NBA playoffs with a 103-92 victory over San Antonio. LaMarcus Aldridge on Monday added 19 points for the Trail Blazers, whose victory in game four of the Western Conference…
Iran’s World Cup coach and players have hit out at the country’s football federation and kit sponsor for providing shrinking socks, boots that are too small and not enough equipment. The row has worsened tensions between coach Carlos Queiroz and the…
Conditions set out by Boko Haram’s leader for the release of the Nigerian schoolgirls held hostage by the Islamists may lead to a deal that sees the girls freed, analysts said Monday. In a new video obtained by AFP, the group’s leader Abubakar Shekau…
The United States said it is flying “manned” missions over Nigeria in search of over 200 abducted schoolgirls, after the Lagos government dismissed a prisoner-swap offer from the Boko Haram kidnappers. “We have shared commercial satellite imagery with…
Greece will create a little bit of history in Brazil in June and reach the World Cup knockout stages for the first time, coach Fernando Santos has confidently predicted. The 59-year-old is stepping down after the finals but he is so confident his solid…
One of the biggest points of contention since the launch of the Xbox One last year was the inclusion of the Kinect, the motion-sensing, voice-command-hearing gaming peripheral that some say jacked the price of the console a hundred dollars higher than…
Rebels in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region appealed on Monday to join Russia after what they claimed were resounding victories in independence referendums. Moscow said it “respects” the result of the weekend votes on self-rule, which were denounced…
Motorola’s big claim to fame lately has been the Moto 360, the hotly anticipated Android Wear smartwatch that we’re hoping to hear more about before its scheduled summer release. But Motorola has been a phone maker for a long, long time, and today…
Late last week the Financial Times reported that Apple is close to finalizing a $3.2 billion deal to acquire Beats Electronics. The deal, which could be announced as early as this week, didn’t make sense to me at first. Why would Apple want to buy…
Dozens of women’s rights activists took to the streets of the Senegalese capital Dakar on Monday to denounce the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria by Islamist militants. Members of 20 organisations who had come together near the Nigerian…
The Gmail you know and use every day may soon look very different, if recent reports of a design overhaul are to be believed. According to Geek.com, Google has invited a select audience of users to test a wildly new, and oddly Android-like redesign…
Irish police arrested a man after a huge car bomb was found in Dublin hours before the city welcomed a stage of the Giro d’Italia cycling race at the weekend, police said Monday. The bomb, reportedly containing 50 lb (22 kilos) of explosives made from…
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch launched Monday an ambitious bid to create a pan-European television giant to tackle fierce competition, rapid sector consolidation, and aggressive bidding wars for live football rights. British pay-TV group BSkyB revealed…