The Magpies chief was appointed by owner Mike Ashley in 2008 but has decided to leave St James' Park following the arrival of Joe Kinnear as the clubs director of football More »BREAKING NEWS: Llambias resigns as Newcastle managing director
Proposed experiments with animal-human embryos cleared the first regulatory hurdle Tuesday, reports said, as Japanese scientists seek permission for tests that could see human organs produced inside the growing body of an animal. More »Japan experts 'to OK animal-human embryos test'
Thousands of Brazilians threatened fresh protests Tuesday over the huge costs of preparations for the World Cup, after the biggest demos 20 years shook Dilma Rousseff's government. More »Brazil government braces for more social unrest
Barack Obama will Wednesday propose major cuts in US and Russian nuclear stocks, making a pitch for his own place in history in an evocative open-air speech during his first visit as president to Berlin. More »Obama to call for nuclear cuts in Berlin speech
Asian markets were mixed on Tuesday, with traders sitting on the sidelines as they await the US Federal Reserve's plans for its stimulus programme. More »Asian markets mixed as US Fed prepares for meeting
A mentally disabled woman and her daughter were forced to live in an Ohio basement with snakes and pitbulls and were treated like slaves for more than two years, US prosecutors said. More »Woman, child held captive like 'slaves' in US
Australian Bernard Tomic has recharged his form on grass, shaking off last week's hamstring concern to post a 6-3, 6-4 first round win over Briton James Ward at the ATP-WTA Eastbourne International on Tuesday. More »Tomic posts season's first grass win
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Acer Inc, the world's No.4 PC vendor, said on Wednesday that it expects notebook and tablet PC shipment to be flat in the second quarter from the first quarter, versus an prediction of 0-5 percent growth made in April. Acer Chairman J.T. Wang made the comment to reporters at the firm's annual shareholder meeting. ... More »Acer sees tablet, notebook PC shipments to be flat in second quarter
The 20-year-old, who joined the Premier League club last Thursday for a deal believed to be worth £4 million, fell asleep during a MRI scan while pondering his move to England More »Extra Time: Okore caught 40 winks during Aston Villa medical
The La Liga club’s director of football, Ramon Verdejo, says a bigger bid will secure the player's move to Anfield before confirming Antonio Luna is close to joining Aston Villa More »Sevilla chief calls on Liverpool to up Alberto offer
Actor will hold a second wedding for his wife of 20 years, Karen Cheung, to raise funds for charity More »Joe Ma to renew vows on 20th wedding anniversary
After the much talked about 5-1 defeat by Thailand, the Chinese national team have been issued an unlikely challenge, by a student of Xi’an International University More »Chinese national team challenged by students of Xi’an International University
Petaling Jaya (The Star/ANN) - It's the same old script, year after year. Right around this time, the clear blue skies in parts of our country and a few other countries in the region will turn grey. More »OPINION: Peat fires and the ever-repeating haze
By Chris Francescani NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the New York Police Department over its surveillance of Muslim communities, accusing the police of trampling on religious freedoms and constitutional guarantees of equality. The surveillance by the NYPD's intelligence division has extended beyond New York City's five boroughs into neighboring New Jersey and other nearby states. The police department says that surveillance of Muslims is legal under an earlier federal court order. ... More »New York police sued over surveillance of Muslims
Chelsea defender David Luiz led his Brazil teammates in speaking out in support of mass protests in the country that have overshadowed the start of the Confederations Cup. More »Brazil players voice support for protesters
The Lithuanian international bagged two goals on his debut for Brunei’s only professional football club, having arrived with impressive credentials More »Arturas Rimkevicius off to goal-scoring start at DPMM
By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said that an assault it led earlier this month on one of the world's biggest cyber crime rings has freed at least 2 million PCs infected with a virus believed to have been used to steal more than $500 million from bank accounts worldwide. "We definitely have liberated at least 2 million PCs globally. That is a conservative estimate," Richard Domingues Boscovich, assistant general counsel with Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit, said in an interview on Tuesday. ... More »Microsoft says it freed millions of computers from criminal botnet
By Sophie Knight and Sinead Carew TOKYO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Japan's SoftBank Corp cleared a major hurdle in its attempt to buy U.S. wireless provider Sprint Nextel Corp, as rival bidder Dish Network Corp declined to make a new offer after SoftBank sweetened its own bid last week. SoftBank Chief Executive Masayoshi Son is now a step closer to sealing the largest overseas acquisition by a Japanese company in history, after winning support from a key shareholder by raising SoftBank's offer to $21.6 billion from $20.1 billion last week. ... More »Softbank closer to acquiring Sprint after Dish abandons bid for now
South Korean media blamed Iran Wednesday for angry scenes at a tense World Cup qualifier which ended with fans pelting debris on to the pitch and the visiting coach under fire for a rude gesture. More »S.Korea media blame Iran for angry World Cup scenes
By Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA called on backyard astronomers and other citizen-scientists on Tuesday to help track asteroids that could create havoc on Earth. The U.S. space agency has already identified 95 percent of the potentially planet-killing NEOs - near Earth objects - with a diameter of .62 miles (1 km) or more, a size comparable to the space rock many scientists believe wiped out the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago. ... More »NASA wants backyard astronomers to help track asteroids