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When Iraq is better than German refugee camps: A growing number of refugees...
To get to Germany’s promised land, he walked for eight hours into Turkey and took a gruelling 20-hour ride in a crammed and stinking lorry across south-east Europe.But now Mohammed Aziz Qadir, an Iraqi...
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The largest defense budgets in the world
The United States' military spending has dominated the world for years, but recent figures show that other nations are beginning to catch up.While global tensions increase, with an increasingly complex...
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Apple just reported the biggest annual profit in history
Apple has recorded the biggest annual profit in corporate history, with record sales of the iPhone helping it to make $53.4bn (£35bn) in the last 12 months.The world's biggest company surpassed the...
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A biscuit from the Titanic just sold for $23,000
A cracker that survived the Titanic and lives on, un munched, has now been sold for $23,000 (£15,034).The biscuit was saved by James Fenwick, a passenger on the Carpathia vessel that saved Titanic...
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Meet Halo: A $330 million luxury airship of the future with a ballroom,...
Oligarchs who have tired of their superyachts could instead spend future holidays on Halo, a proposed residential airship with a living area the size of four football pitches and an estimated cost of...
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China is reportedly not afraid to fight a war with the US after South China...
China is not afraid of fighting a war with the US in the South China Sea, a newspaper with close links to the government said on Wednesday, after Washington sent a warship near artificial islands built...
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Pentagon: 'We are in combat' in Iraq
The Pentagon has acknowledged that US troops are "in combat" in Iraq after previously characterizing the mission as one of training and assisting Iraqi security forces against Islamic State.Colonel...
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A behind-the-scenes look at the British Super Bowl of advertising: Christmas
Why do Christmas adverts from the likes of John Lewis and Sainsbury's try to make us laugh or cry, rather than sell us products? Harry Wallop goes behind the scenes of the Waitrose Christmas advert...
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Syrian rebel groups use caged prisoners as human shields
A Syrian rebel group has defended its decision to use prisoners as human shields against regime and Russian air strikes.Video footage posted over the weekend showed dozens of people being transported...
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Rioting over the mysterious death of an Iranian asylum seeker has turned...
Security guards fled Australia’s remote migrant detention centre on Christmas Island after the death of an Iranian asylum seeker sparked violence and turned the facility into a “complete disaster...
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Apple design chief Jony Ive reveals the story behind the new Apple product...
Reinventing an object billions of people across the world know and use every day is no mean feat. The humble pencil has been around for thousands of years, with its origins in the discovery of graphite...
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China is on a gold 'buying spree'
China's historic devaluation of the yuan this summer fuelled a gold bar and coin "buying spree" in the country as investors sought to shelter themselves from further market volatility, according to the...
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Michael Dell: 'The post-PC era has been great for the PC'
Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook, caused a stir this week when he declared that the PC was on its way out. “Why would you buy a PC anymore?” he said in an interview with the Telegraph, discussing the...
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This is how the US and UK tracked down Jihadi John
For Jihadi John, death could not have been more different than that of his victims.While his hostages suffered unimaginable horror as he beheaded them, for him the end came instantaneously and without...
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Facebook's plan to turn 'Messenger' into an app for everything (FB)
Amid the chaos of Europe’s largest technology conference, the Dublin Web Summit, David Marcus looks perfectly unruffled.In an immaculate white shirt and blazer, and coiffed salt-and-pepper hair, the...
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Putin hails diplomatic revival between Russia and UK
Vladimir Putin has hailed a "revival" in relations between Britain and Russia as he said that David Cameron shared intelligence about the Sinai plane crash.In bilateral talks on the margins of the G20...
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The 2nd-largest diamond ever found was just recovered from a mine in Africa
A small Canadian diamond company has announced the discovery of the world's second-biggest gem-quality diamond ever recovered.Lucara Diamond Corp. said the 1,111-carat stone was found at its Karowe...
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Inside the 'Ant Trade' — how Europe's terrorists get their guns
When they first pulled him over for a routine check on the Bavarian Autobahn, police saw little unusual about the middle-aged motorist in the rented VW Golf.Aged 51 and from Montenegro, he told police...
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Who are the Turkmen reportedly holding a downed Russian pilot?
The downing of a Russian fighter jet on Syria's Mount Turkmen has thrown the spotlight on to its inhabitants, part of the broader Turkmen community that stretches across northern Syria and Iraq.In...
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Schoolchildren in India 'made to wear color-coded wristbands to show caste'
Pupils in some southern Indian schools are being made to wear colour-coded wristbands to indicate whether they belong, it has been claimed.The wristbands, which come in shades of red, yellow, green and...
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