LONDON- Two fathers' rights campaigners were arrested Friday for a four-day demonstration on top of the main entrance to London's Hyde Park, where two other protesters remain. Police were alerted...

DAMASCUS- Syrian government forces on Thursday retook a key town on the outskirts of the capital Damascus after a months-long battle against rebels, a military source and state television said. The...

PARIS- A candidate vaccine against the joint disease chikungunya, endemic to Africa and south Asia but moving north- and westward, showed promise by provoking an immune response in human trials, its...

LONDON- A woman accused of trying to smuggle 20,000 euros ($27,000) in cash hidden in her underwear to jihadists fighting in Syria was found not guilty by a British court on Wednesday. The 11-person...

GAZA CITY, Adel Zaanoun- Israeli jets bombed targets across Gaza early Thursday, retaliating to Palestinian rocket attacks in spiralling violence that left a truce extension teetering on the brink of...

LONDON, James Pheby- Britain is to transport military supplies from other states to Kurdish forces battling militants in northern Iraq and strengthen its aid mission there, the government said on...

WASHINGTON- The Pentagon said Tuesday it had made progress in destroying Syrian chemical weapons, saying specialists on a US military ship had neutralized "100 percent" of a precursor used to make...

GENEVA, Nina Larson with Zoom Dosso- The World Health Organization authorised Tuesday the use of experimental drugs to fight Ebola as the death toll topped 1,000 and a Spanish priest became the first...

WASHINGTON- An Iranian-born mathematician has become the first woman to win a prestigious global prize known as the Fields Medal, the International Congress of Mathematicians announced Tuesday....