With a single tweet, France’s first lady has managed to take a swipe at her husband’s ex and throw a spanner in the works of his Socialist party.
Yemen’s army has seized the al-Qaeda strongholds of Jaar and Zinjibar, more than a year after the jihadists captured most of Abyan province.
Sudanese rebels in the Blue Nile state repulsed an attack by government forces, which lost men and weapons in the battle, a claim the army denies.
Six men who headed up a site which taught its users to defraud people of millions of pounds have been handed jail sentences in Britain.
Six men who headed up a site which taught its users to defraud people of millions of pounds have been handed jail sentences in Britain.
Reigning US Open champ Rory McIlroy fired a five-under 65 to seize a one-stroke lead at the $5.6 million St. Jude Classic.
At least four French soldiers were killed and several wounded in a suicide attack against a convoy of Nato-led troops in eastern Afghanistan.
China will launch a spacecraft to conduct its first manned space docking the latest in a plan aimed at giving the country a permanent space station.
Chinese dissident Li Wangyang, jailed for 22 years after the 1989 Tiananmen protests, has died in strange circumstances in central China.
Maria Sharapova will meet Wimbledon champ Petra Kvitova in the French Open semis after both saw off their quarterfinal opponents with little bother.