PARIS, FRANCE- An admission by France's culture minister, Fleur Pellerin, that she had not read a single novel over the past two years sent the country's Tweetosphere into overdrive Monday. The guest...

MURSITPINAR, TURKEY, Fulya Ozerkan with Serene Assir in Beirut- Kurdish forces thwarted a new attempt Sunday by Islamic State group fighters to cut off the Syrian town of Kobane from the border with...

TRIPOLI, LIBAN, Omar Ibrahim- Lebanese troops fought a fierce and deadly battle Saturday with Islamist gunmen in the historic market of second city Tripoli, in clashes that devastated parts of the...

WASHINGTON, US- SpaceX's unmanned Dragon spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Saturday carrying a heavy load of NASA cargo and scientific samples from the International Space Station that...

NEW DELHI, INDIA, Abhaya Srivastava- When a Hindu woman tearfully claimed to national media recently she had been kidnapped, raped and forcibly converted to Islam, India's religious hardliners seized...

BEIRUT, LEBANON- Ten children and five women have been killed in Syrian government air strikes in the northern province of Aleppo, a monitoring group said Friday. The children, aged from four to 10,...

CAIRO, EGYPT, Tony Gamal-Gabriel- Egypt declared a three-month state of emergency would begin Saturday in the north and centre of the Sinai Peninsula after a suicide car bombing killed 30 soldiers....

PARIS, FRANCE- Europe said Friday it was postponing the launch next month of its first-ever "space plane" to give scientists time to finetune the mission's flight plan. Dubbed the IXV, for...

RAMALLAH, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES, Majeda El Batsh- When Palestinian Osama Silwadi was crippled by gunfire it ended his career as a war correspondent, but the now wheelchair-bound photographer has...