Sydney - Australian scientists said Monday they had discovered in an outback mountain range a reef that was under water 650 million years ago and could provide fresh insight into early life on earth....

Copenhagen - Greenland's ice cap, which covers more than 80 percent of the island, is melting faster than expected because of global warming, a Danish researcher said on Monday. The...

OTTAWA - Canada's best-selling polka singer Walter Ostanek is aghast that his category has been dropped by the US Recording Academy in a reshuffling of the Grammy Awards, he told local media Friday....

Alice Munro's stories bring her readers up against unmediated life, says Christopher Tayler. Christopher Tayler- In "Fiction", one of the 10 new stories collected in Too Much Happiness, a...

LONDON- Six British police officers have been accused of subjecting suspects to waterboarding, a simulated drowning tactic condemned by US President Barack Obama as torture, newspapers here reported...

BEIRUT, Jocelyne Zablit - Lebanon's pro-Western coalition claimed victory on Monday over an alliance headed by the fundamentalist Shiite militant group Hezbollah after a fiercely-contested...

TEHRAN- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has taken a strong lead in his bid to be re-elected as Iran's president, chalking up 65.96 percent of Friday's vote with more than two-thirds of ballot boxes counted, the...