Obama knew about NSA's spying on Merkel: Report

United States President Barack Obama knew that German Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone was being tapped and personally approved the spying, which may have begun as early as 2002, a damning......

US secret surveillance FAILED to track Headley: ProPublica

Questioning the effectiveness of America's secret surveillance programme, a top investigative publication in Washington, DC has said the US intelligence failed to track Mumbai attack convict David......

'Countries building own internet network to be disastrous'

Countries trying to build and operate their own internet system is 'a road to disaster' a top Pentagon official said given that two nations Iran and China are making such an effort. "Any country......

Data leaks made US, world more secure, says Snowden

Edward Snowden, the American National Security Agency whistleblower whose unprecedented leak of top-secret documents led to a worldwide debate about the nature of surveillance, insisted on Monday......

Thank you for everything: British PM to Lord Paul

'Thank you for everything you have done' -- with these words Prime Minister Gordon Brown applauded the contribution made to Britain by Lord Swraj Paul, NRI industrialist. Brown, his wife Sarah and......

Five talking points from the weekend's EPL

The following are talking points from the weekend’s Premier League action: KANE OFFSIDE ROW SHOWS PROBLEM OF RULE TINKERING IMAGE: Arsenal's Sokratis Papastathopoulos in action with......

Golf: Chawrasia extends lead in Hong Kong

IMAGE: SSP Chawrasia in action during round two of the UBS Hong Kong Open. Photograph: Arep Kulal/Getty Images India golfer SSP Chawrasia forged a two-shot lead at the Hong Kong Open on Friday,......

List of Australian Open men's singles champions

List of Australian Open men's singles champions since the event began in 1905 (Australian unless stated): IMAGE: Novak Djokovic poses with the championship trophy after winning his match against......

Here's a complete list of Aus Open men's champions

IMAGE:  Is there any stopping this man? Photograph: Michael Dodge/Getty Images Roger Federer won his 20th Grand Slam title, defeating Marin Cilic 6-2, 6-7(5), 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 in the Australian......

Departing Russians save best for last

Russia carved two pieces of history as they ended a dismal Euro 2004 campaign on a high note by beating surprise quarter-finalists Greece 2-1.Striker Dmitry Kirichenko's opening goal after 67......