WASHINGTON, Kerry Sheridan- It starts out laying flat, like a sheet of paper. Then it springs up, almost lifelike, and folds into moveable parts much like origami art. And then it crawls away. This...

MONROVIA, Zoom Dosso- Overwhelmed west African nations called states of emergency on Thursday with the death toll from the Ebola epidemic nearing 1,000, as the World Health Organisation considers...

PARIS, Richard Ingham- The space probe Rosetta on Wednesday made a historic rendezvous with a comet, climaxing a 10-year, six-billion-kilometre (3.7-billion-mile) chase through the Solar System, the...

UNITED NATIONS- A team of chemical weapons experts will travel to Syria next month to follow up on Damascus' pledge to hand over its arsenal, the British UN envoy said Tuesday. A joint mission from...

CAIRO- Five Egyptian police were killed Tuesday during a shootout with assailants in the northwest of the country, security officials said. The unidentified men opened fire on a police car carrying...

JERUSALEM, Majeda El-Batsh- Israel and the Palestinians have agreed a new 72-hour truce starting on Tuesday, Egypt said, after increasingly vocal world demands for a ceasefire in the bloody Gaza...

LABWEH, Hekmat Shreif- Lebanon vowed Monday to show "no leniency" to jihadists its troops are battling near Syria, on a third day of clashes threatening to further engulf it in its neighbour's war....

BEIRUT- At least 44 people were killed in and near the Syrian capital Sunday in regime air strikes and rebel mortar fire, reports from a monitoring group and state media said. The Syrian Observatory...

GAZA CITY, Mai Yaghi- The UN expressed outrage after another deadly strike on one of its schools Sunday as Israel began pulling some troops back from Gaza in a step towards unilateral withdrawal. The...