Washington - Facebook secretly manipulated the feelings of 700,000 users to understand "emotional contagion" in a study that prompted anger and forced the social network giant on the defensive....

New York - French bank BNP Paribas has agreed to pay US authorities a $8.9 billion fine to avoid being tried in court for dealing with US-blacklisted countries, sources close to the matter told AFP....

Tripoli - A Tunisian diplomat and a fellow embassy staffer abducted in Libya earlier this year were freed by their abductors on Sunday after months in captivity....

Porto Alegre (Brazil) - Underdogs Algeria have the chance to settle a 32-year-old World Cup score and create a major upset by knocking out Germany in Monday's last 16 clash....

Rio de Janeiro - European powerhouses Germany and France block the way for Nigeria and Algeria to make some World Cup history on Monday. Africa...

Brasília - Didier Deschamps has warned France's players they cannot think about anything but Monday's last-16 encounter with Nigeria if they are to make a lasting impression on the World Cup....

Cairo - An Egyptian police colonel was killed and six people wounded Monday when two bombs exploded near the main Cairo presidential palace, police said, days after Islamists warned they had planted...

Agadir - Two people died and three others were gravely wounded in a road accident on Friday in the Amskroud commune when a truck collided with a car on the Marrakech-Agadir highway, local authorities...

Berlin - German lawmakers adopted a law on Friday to reduce renewable energy subsidies as the government seeks to keep its green "energy transformation" on track, curb rising prices and fight nagging...

Rio de Janeiro - Luis Suarez faced mounting calls to seek professional treatment on Friday as the banned Uruguay striker's bite victim claimed his punishment had been too harsh....

Berlin - German legend Franz Beckenbauer has had his 90-day ban from any football-related activity lifted by FIFA, his manager said on Friday in a statement posted on Twitter....

Marseille - The son-in-law of a Monaco heiress gunned down in a Mafia-style killing has been charged with her murder and paid hitmen for the brazen attack that has shaken the principality's...

Khartoum - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi landed in Islamist neighbour Sudan on Friday for what an analyst said would be an attempt to shore up a regional alliance against Islamic...

San Francisco - Google on Thursday said that it is "forgetting" things in Europe to comply with a legal ruling granting people the power to have certain information about them removed from searches....

London - Some came in suits, some came in stilettos, and some came in sci-fi t-shirts, but together they could shape the future of the Internet....

Rio de Janeiro - Ghana crashed out of the World Cup on Thursday hours after star players Sulley Muntari and Kevin-Prince Boateng were sensationally thrown out of the squad for bust-ups with...

Johannesburg - Nelson Mandela's widow, Graca Machel, on Friday announced she will resume her public life after completing a six-month mourning period for her "best friend."...

Abuja - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan visited the site of a deadly bombing in the capital Abuja on Friday after cutting short an African Union engagement to meet victims of the attack blamed...

Punta Cana (Dominican Republic) - Moroccan minister of foreign affairs and Cooperation, Salaheddine Mezouar arrived here on Wednesday to represent Morocco in the 43rd summit of the Central American...