BEIRUT- A car bombing outside a mosque in southern Syria killed scores of people Friday and rebels detonated mines under a hotel in the north, killing 18 loyalists, monitors said. At least 47 people,...
PARIS, Véronique Martinache- In under two weeks, the art world has been rocked by cases of forgery in which paintings with a potential value of millions were unmasked as worthless fakes. The two...
DUBAI- Security forces clashed with Shiite protesters who tried to march towards the Bahraini capital's symbolic Pearl Square on Friday to mark the third anniversary of an Arab Spring-inspired...
LONDON- Counter-terror police searched a house in northwest England Thursday after the reported death of a Briton in Syria, a day after raiding a home linked to an alleged suicide bomber. The BBC...
KUWAIT CITY- Fearful of Arab Spring-inspired unrest, Gulf monarchies have stepped up efforts to monitor and control the media, particularly online, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said Wednesday....
CAIRO- An Egyptian court overturned Wednesday the conviction of a policeman accused of killing protesters in Cairo during the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak, drawing charges of judicial double...
PARIS, Mariette Le Roux- Nearly 13,000 years ago, a baby boy died in what is Montana today. Mourners stained his tiny body with red ochre and entombed him with artefacts that had likely been in his...
MAJURO- The Marshall Islands confirmed Thursday it has withdrawn the nomination of a former Lebanese army general who was a suspect in a deadly political bombing as their ambassador to UNESCO....
LONDON- British scientists on Tuesday announced plans to create the complete genome sequence of infamous British king Richard III after his remains were found under a car park in 2012. Geneticist...
ROME- Activists on Tuesday called for more surveillance of Syrian archaeological sites and a crackdown on trading in looted art at the opening of an international campaign to save the war-torn...
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