LONDON- A British newspaper on Wednesday published emails it claims were sent by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and his wife, allegedly revealing the regime sought advice from Iran on suppressing...

TRIPOLI, Dominique Soguel- The commander of a Libyan militia that has detained two British journalists working for Iran's English-language Press TV said Sunday the men were being held for illegal...

LONDON, Danny Kemp- Rupert Murdoch's Sun on Sunday tabloid rolled off the presses for the first time, with a pledge that the paper replacing the scandal-hit News of the World would abide by standards...

NEW YORK- New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose richly crafted dispatches surveyed two decades of Middle East turmoil, has died in Syria of an asthma...

RIYADH, Assad Abboud- A Saudi journalist wanted in the kingdom for comments deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammed was arrested after Malaysia deported him and will face charges of blasphemy, a...

LONDON- It was intended as a lighthearted addition to an otherwise serious list of women who made the headlines in 2011. But the BBC's inclusion of a panda in its "faces of the year" has kicked up a...

LONDON- The Times newspaper in London on Wednesday named Mohamed Bouazizi, the Tunisian fruit seller who unwittingly started a wave of protests known as the Arab Spring, as its person of 2011. The...

LONDON- Hopes for transformation in North Korea following the death of "monstrous" leader Kim Jong-Il remain remote, with China being the impoverished nation's best hope for delivering stability,...

WASHINGTON, Arthur MacMillan- Renowned and provocative British writer and polemicist Christopher Hitchens, whose targets ranged from God and Mother Teresa to Henry Kissinger, has died after an...