CAIRO - Egypt has decided to advance the election of a new president, giving in to the demands of increasingly violent protesters and raising hopes of a civilian government taking over the task of...

WASHINGTON - Amid an escalated tension threatening a nuclear conflict between the two nations, US President Barack Obama has said he did not believe Israel had decided on an attack on Iran to disrupt...

MOSCOW- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has stressed need for Russia to adopt new democratic mechanisms to move forward and to be able to react swiftly to the interests and desires of large groups in...

DAMASCUS - The West voiced its ire over Russia and China's veto of the UN Security Council resolution on Syria even as more clashes and deaths were reported in the violence-wracked country.

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LONDON - Heavy snowfall and intense cold this winter, one of the most severe in decades, has taken its toll across Europe, with many rural areas badly affected and several deaths reported.

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NEW YORK - Citigroup's Chinese subsidiary has been granted permission to offer its credit cards in China, becoming the first US based bank and the second foreign bank to receive the nod.

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BRISTOL - Hundreds of traders and business establishments have signed up for Bristol's own currency to be launched May 21, with the backing of the Bristol Credit Union, a bank run as a...

NEW YORK - The IMF has warned of lower growth in China in view of the economic slump in Europe, and cut its forecast for the world's second largest economy this year to 8.25 per cent from 9 per cent...

ATHENS - Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos has said he would continue intense talks with his coalition partners on austerity measures for a 130 billion-euro EU bailout plan second for...

BEIJING - China's Monday asked its airlines not to pay a charge on carbon emissions imposed by the European Union (EU).

The authorities also asked the airlines not to hike freight or add other...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and chief of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Hamas politbureau Khalid Mashaal signed here Monday the Doha Declaration of the Palestinian reconciliation.

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Al-Qaeda is trying to recruit women for carrying out suicide bombings in Britain, parliament members have warned in a report.

The terrorist group is using extremist websites to radicalise the...

--but with the subjects of the stories and the assumptions built into the text changed to reflect a conservative, not liberal, worldview? What would happen if the media wolf pack suddenly had to...

Some 1,400 workers at Kyrgyzstan's largest gold mine have gone on strike. The head of the miners' labor union committee for rights, Eldar Tajybaev, told RFE/RL that the striking workers...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is traveling to Syria in a bid to mediate the crisis there. Lavrov is due to hold talks with President Bashar al-Assad who is facing an 11-month-old uprising...

The U.S.-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Iranian authorities have detained more than 65 Arab residents of Iran as part of alleged "security sweeps" in Iran's Arab-majority...

newspaper column made a passing reference to Lenin's supposed Hibernian brogue. The source the column cited for this claim was none other than Roddy Connolly, the son of the legendary Irish...

TEHRAN - Iran's parliament said on Tuesday it was ready to impose a ban on oil exports to some European states, the country's English-language Press TV reported."In retaliation to the...

Times of India reported Tuesday. The couple, Shneor Zalman and Yaffa Shenoi, will be questioned by Indian agencies before commencement of the deportation.According to...

Two cars and a stone fence near the Valley of the Cross Monastery in Jerusalem were vandalized overnight Monday in a suspected 'price tag' ...

AMMAN - Heavy bombardment of the Syrian city of Homs resumed on Tuesday after at least 95 civilians were killed on Monday in an offensive to put down a popular revolt against President Bashar...

Reconciliation between Palestinian Fatah and Hamas factions should not be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive from negotiations with Israel, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told PA President...

Only ten percent of all bank robberies end with suspects being charged in court, police admitted on Tuesday.The figures emerged during a special session called by the Knesset's Interior Affairs...

DENVER - Republican candidate Rick Santorum is gunning for a victory in at least one of the three states holding presidential nominating contests on Tuesday in an attempt to slow down front-runner...

WASHINGTON - Longtime US Mideast envoy Dennis Ross said Monday he did not believe the time was ripe for a permanent deal between Israelis and Palestinians and suggested regarding the region now...

A Muslim youth group on Tuesday urged the Malaysian government to campaign against Valentine's Day celebrations, which it said promote immoral...

Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is hitting the campaign trail as an official candidate and travelling to the Irrawaddy delta for the first time in two...

King’s Lynn - With a wave, a smile and a few softly-spoken words, Queen Elizabeth II charmed well-wishers who braved the snow to congratulate her on Monday as she marked 60 years on the...

Grand Junction - Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney on Monday focused his campaign's firepower on Rick Santorum to head off his surge in two of three states with nominating contests...

A new book by the exorcist of Rome tells the strange tale of how two ‘possessed’ men were brought to St Peter’s Square in May 2009 to be...

Last year, the Parliamentary Health Select Committee described the GMC in a highly critical report as ‘overly lenient’ to doctors — while just a few months ago, the chair of the...

It raises the prospect of parents at the school gates bumping into the radical cleric, who was known as Osama Bin Laden’s ambassador in...

Britain is to send equipment to help the opposition oust Syrian dictator Bashar Assad after William Hague said there was ‘no limit on what resources we can...

Dr Rowan Williams said that condoning assisted suicide would undermine the sanctity of life - and he compared its effects to the legalisation of abortion a generation...

Devoted: Ruth Caven gave up her staff job as a glossy magazine journalism to go freelance and look after her nine-month-old black cocker spaniel puppy,...

Judges have quashed a notorious ruling which allowed a Nepalese killer with no wife or children to stay in the UK to protect his right to a family...

A new study has found that babies who use their fingers to eat during the weaning process are less likely to become obese than those who are spoon-fed pureed...

Paralysed: Little Thusha Kamaleswaran will never walk again after she was shot through the chest while playing in her uncle's shop in Stockwell Road, south...

There’s that famous song ‘There’ll always be an England . . . if England means as much to you as England means to me.’ That’s how many of us think about teapots....

A statement on behalf of his wife, Baroness Paisley, said: ‘She requests the family’s privacy be respected at this difficult...

Even Rocky Horror and a pair of bloomers can’t faze the Queen: The party's started. . . with a taste of the wacky ways the nation's going to celebrate the Diamond...

A secret recording in which a patient allegedly tells her married GP that he has ‘such a kissable mouth’ was played to a disciplinary panel...

But no one seems to have told Michael O’Shea, from Nottingham. Seven years after trousering...

A court has seen a dramatic video revealing the final moments of two teenagers who died while 'car surfing' before the SUV overturned and burst into...

DAMASCUS: Syria's government vowed Tuesday to push forth with its onslaught on the central province of Homs in a bid to rid the region from what it said were "armed terrorist...

WASHINGTON: Boosted by rising US jobs figures, President Barack Obama's approval rating has hit the magical 50-percent mark and he has opened up a clear lead over his likely Republican opponent...

The president of the island nation of Maldives, who became the country's first democratically elected leader in three decades, resigned today following weeks of sometimes violent public protests...

Family lawyers said the boys had recently begun to speak about their mother's 2009 disappearance, in which the father was a suspect. In the months leading up to the fiery blast, one of the boys...

TAYASAN, PHILIPPINES - Philippine rescuers searched on Tuesday for 29 residents of a mountainside community feared dead after a landslide triggered by an earthquake engulfed their homes. A magnitude...