TRIPOLI- Kidnappers seized an Egyptian diplomat in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Friday, Libya's foreign ministry said. The diplomat was snatched from his house in Tripoli by an unknown group, Libyan...
PARIS- The French magazine that reported President Francois Hollande's affair with an actress has been fined for breach of privacy in a separate case brought by France's culture minister, a lawyer...
AMMAN, Musa Hattar- Cyberactivists from the Arab world said Thursday they are facing "an unprecedented attack" from regimes in their countries, three years after the start of Internet-fuelled...
WASHINGTON, Kerry Sheridan- A strange rock that looks like a jelly doughnut has appeared on Mars, and scientists are closer to figuring out how it got there, a top NASA expert said Thursday. The...
MONTREUX- A long-awaited international peace conference for Syria took place in Switzerland Wednesday, with the warring sides engaging in bitter sparring as they met for the first time since the...
MONTREUX, Michael Mainville, Jo Biddle- The biggest push yet to end Syria's bloodshed was marked by fiery exchanges Wednesday as the warring sides and global powers clashed over President Bashar...
JERUSALEM- At least one rocket struck the outskirts of Israel's southern Red Sea resort of Eilat on Monday, a security source told AFP. "At least one rocket was fired at Eilat and they found the...
PARIS, Richard Ingham- The European probe Rosetta woke up Monday after a 31-month hibernation in a nearly decade-old quest to explore a comet, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced. "Hello,...
LOS ANGELES, Michael Thurston- Truth can be stranger than fiction, so they say. But when it comes to movies, truth can also be more powerful than fiction, at least judging by this year's Oscar...
LONDON- A thief who tried to steal an ancient urn containing the ashes of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, from a London crematorium dropped it while trying to climb over a gate, police...