BEIRUT, LEBANON- Syria's exiled opposition announced Saturday that it had declined an invitation from Russia to attend peace talks in Moscow with representatives of President Bashar al-Assad's...

LE MONT-SAINT-MICHEL, FRANCE- Some 10,000 people gathered at Mont Saint-Michel in northern France on Friday to watch what has been billed as "the high tide of the century" wash around the picturesque...

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- British newspaper The Guardian announced Friday that Kath Viner, the head of its US operations, had been appointed to take over as editor-in-chief later this year. Viner, who...

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK- The Danish editor who commissioned the caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed that sparked international protests was late Thursday awarded a prize by Denmark's national press club....

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES- The United States is looking into allegations that the Syrian regime unleashed chlorine gas in an attack in the northwest of the war-ravaged country earlier this week, John...

MOSCOW, RUSSIA- Representatives of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and opposition figures will meet for peace talks in Moscow on April 6, three months after a meeting ended without concrete results,...

LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES- A common practice that involves using a syringe to remove a patient's blood clots during treatment for a heart attack has been found to increase the risk of stroke,...

PARIS, FRANCE- People breastfed as infants have higher intelligence scores in adulthood, and higher earnings, according to a study published Wednesday that tracked the development of 3,500 newborns...

VANCOUVER, CANADA, Glenn Chapman- StoryCorps founder Dave Isay on Tuesday unveiled a wish to use smartphone applications to archive the spoken wisdom of humanity. As this year's TED Prize winner, his...