MARSEILLE - A French security guard said Tuesday he had received a faceful of glass when the screen of his iPhone exploded, the second such reported incident in France. Yassine Bouhadi, a...

PARIS - More than half the fatalities from swine flu have been among young adults, according to one of the first surveys to gather mortality data from across the globe for the new A(H1N1) virus....

WASHINGTON - YouTube on Tuesday offered a way for creators of videos which go viral to cash in on their success. The Google-owned video-sharing site said in a blog post that it was expanding its...

UNITED NATIONS- Israel's UN envoy said Tuesday that a meeting between US President Barack Obama, his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could take...

WASHINGTON - Interrogators at secret CIA prisons threatened to kill the children of alleged September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and rape the mother of another detainee, documents showed...

WASHINGTON - Reader's Digest, publisher of the monthly magazine which claims the largest circulation in the world, filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday in an agreement with its major lenders....

HONG KONG, Guy Newey - The boom in "smartphones", led by Apple's iPhone, has inspired language learning tools that would have been inconceivable just months ago -- and a Hong Kong firm is leading...

PARIS, Marlowe Hood - Governments bracing for a second, possibly more lethal, wave of swine flu are all grappling with the same unforgiving dilemma: with not enough vaccine to go around, who is...

LOS ANGELES - "Inglourious Basterds," the latest stylized action flick from director Quentin Tarantino, took the top spot at the North American box office this weekend, initial figures showed...