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Hellcat-powered 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk arrives with 707 horsepower

By comparison, the quickest of the aforementioned SUVs, the W12 engined Bentayga, is down on power by 107bhp and needs an extra half a second to hit 60mph. Fiat...

Big asteroid to fly "very close" to Earth in mid-April

Scientists at the Catalina Sky Survey, Arizona, discovered the 2014 JO25 asteroid in May 2014. The asteroid 2014 JO25 will be making its closest approach ...

Spicer Won't Say Assad Should Go, Presses Chemical Weapons Agreement

Asked if he thought the strike could provoke a military response from Russian Federation or Iran , as Trump has warned in the past would be the case, Spicer...

Mourinho hails solid Man Utd win over "sad" Sunderland

Mourinho's team face a congested fixture list - the visit to Sunderland is to be their third of nine matches this month. United offered the 24-year-old Engl...

Pentagon: US-Russia deconfliction line still open for now

Tillerson says the Islamic State group is a threat not just to the USA but to stability in the region. The so-called "deconfliction line" between the United S...

Ousted South Korea leader Park arrested, jailed in corruption case

Former President Park Geun-hye is taken by vehicle from the Supreme Prosecutors' Office in Seoul's Seocho district to Seoul Detention Center, early in the mor...

LG Electronics says Q1 operating profit likely up 82 per cent

The first-quarter operating profit was above the market's earlier estimate of 9.43 trillion won, compiled by Yonhap Infomax, the financial news arm of Yonha...

Was Trump's Syria Strike Illegal? That's Subject To Debate

What led to the USA airstrikes? The Syrian army said the USA attack killed six people and called it "blatant aggression" which made the United States a part...

Samsung tips best quarterly profit in over three years

While its sales tumbled slightly to 50 trillion won, or roughly 44 billion USA dollars, its operating profit rose to eight.seven billion dollars. A bound an...

Supreme Court says impeachment of Bentley can proceed

The 7-0 decision by the high court allows impeachment proceedings to begin in the House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee on Monday. Earlier this week, th...

What's next for Trump's foreign policy after Syrian strike?

In an interview set to air tomorrow on CBS' "Face the Nation", Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Russians were not targeted by the strikes. Trump has ...

YouTube restricts partner ad program to users that reach 10000 lifetime views

Since 5 years Youtube has allowed all video creators to apply to run ads on their videos, and many typically were approved. Bardin also notes that any cha...

Trump to visit China; Xi approves 100-day trade talks plan

Wang Wen, the executive dean at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies (CIFS) at the Renmin University of China, warned in the Financial Times that protect...

Preorder your Samsung Galaxy S8 & Galaxy S8+ Between April 1 and 15

In contrary, Phone Arena has mentioned in its article that although the Samsung Galaxy C7 Pro received the FCC certification it is still hard to tell whet...

Samsung sees 48% rise in Q1-17 earnings at $8.8 bn

According to the report , the pre orders for the Galaxy S8 smartphone are found 40% higher than the Galaxy Note 7 in the first day itself, and is based on th...

Ex-chief Srinivasan back in focus — BCCI SGM

Interestingly, in one of the sub clauses of Annexure B, an FAQ is being answered in bold that states that no disqualified state unit member can neither attend a...

No peace in Syria until Assad is ousted, says Nikki Haley

It comes after Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson cancelled a visit to Moscow to meet his opposite number. The attack has been widely blamed on the Syrian gove...

Samsung reports record $8.76 bn quarterly operating profit

Its largest-ever quarterly operating profit was 10.1 trillion won, recorded in the third quarter of 2013. As for Samsung, its sales revenue is expected to be ...

Samsung expects second-highest profits for first quarter

Samsung did not elaborate on its quarterly results. The costly Galaxy Note7 debacle, which led to the recall of about 3 million smartphones because of over...

Iran's Rouhani says Trump abetting Syria 'terrorists'

Russian Federation was expected to block the United Nations resolution, though, having previously used its veto power seven times to halt United Nations actio...

In Syria, The News Of US Missile Strike Is Greeted With Ambivalence

Before Donald Trump's shock U-turn approval of airstrikes on Syria , the US, UK and France had brought a resolution before the United Nations Security Counci...

Battlefield 1 Developer Commits To Monthly Updates - Platoons and More Coming Soon!

We already knew about this one, and changes to Devil's Anvil are already live on the Battlefield 1 CTE, so you can get a bit of a preview on what DICE means. Th...

April the giraffe closer to delivering but baby 'just not coming out'

She's in her 15th to 16th month now. Berry Enloe from Jay created a text message alert system that sends real-time updates on April the Giraffe. April was e...

Dhoni reprimanded for IPL Code of Conduct breach

In his next over, Tahir removed opposition captain Rohit Sharma for three and then the risky Buttler for 38, who was unlucky to be given out lbw, to reduce Mumb...

Trial of Samsung heir focuses on succession

Sales of OLED display panels for mobile devices will also remain strong, keeping Samsung's bottom line solid, they said. The hefty profits highlight Samsung...

Donald Trump says he thinks Susan Rice committed a crime

As a former Central Intelligence Agency analyst who has handled requests for demasking the names of American citizens for a US policymaker, I thought Rice's cla...

Samsung Galaxy S8: Specs, Price And Everything You Need to Know

Well that was true. These screens measure 5.8 inches and 6.2 inches respectively. The AMOLED "Infinity Displays" have a 18.5:9 aspect ratio and it covers most...

Samsung predicting second-highest operating profits ever for Q1, 2017

The outlet also stated that some analysts said losses were smaller in the quarter as LG's new lower-tier products fared better and the company reduced market ...

Samsung's bumper profits, new phone, chief on trial

The Apple Inc AAPL.O rival and global memory chip leader said first-quarter operating profit was likely 9.9 trillion won ($8.8 billion), compared with an averag...

Samsung heir accused of bribery, perjury as trial opens

The 48% rise in operating profit, which is the highest in nearly four years, comes as the company hopes to recover lost sales and customer trust with its Galaxy...

Iran's Rouhani wants chemical attack in Syria investigated

Visit would have marked the first meeting between a British and a Russian foreign minister since 2012. "We don't need any bombs anymore", said Eman Zarour, ...

Xi, Trump pledge to expand mutually beneficial cooperation, manage differences

President Donald Trump told reporters Friday that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping have made " tremendous progress " in their discussions on the U.S. "Pr...

US Navy aircraft carrier reverses course, heads back toward Korean peninsula

The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group will move from Singapore to waters near the Korean peninsula, according to a media report. The Carl Vinson Strike Group w...

Samsung tips huge jump in profit as heir to stand trial

Analysts said strong demand for mobile chips and displays for smartphones fueled the stellar profit during the typically slow season for smartphones and telev...

Indonesia, Iran condemn air strike on Syria - UK, Australia, NZ give support

However, a US official said all but one of the 59 missiles struck their targets, hitting multiple aircraft and air shelters, and destroying the fuel area. Oppos...