DAMASCUS- The body of a British doctor who died in Syrian custody was handed over to his family and British officials in Lebanon Saturday as relatives said the regime killed him. Human Rights Watch...

BEIRUT- Syrian army shelling of a mosque in the central city of Homs killed a prominent cleric Friday, while Islamists rebels in Aleppo to the north made a fresh advance, a monitoring group said....

PARIS- French biomedical firm Carmat said on Friday it had begun the first human trial of its prototype artificial heart, which aims at overcoming shortages of organs available for transplant. The...

THESSALONIKI- Greece's second-largest city Thessaloniki unveiled plans on Friday to build a Holocaust museum to honour some 46,000 Jewish residents deported and killed at German Nazi death camps...

UNITED NATIONS- The United States is pressing for UN Security Council condemnation of heightened attacks in Syria in a move that could reopen divisions over the war, diplomats said Wednesday. US...

CAIRO, Samer al-Atrush- Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi and ex-aides will stand trial for "espionage" that helped a "terrorist" campaign involving the Palestinian militant Hamas and...

DAMASCUS- A British doctor who died in Syrian custody and whom London says was murdered had been detained for "unauthorised activities," a report said Wednesday, adding that he had hanged himself....

DUBAI- Saudi Arabia should halt the intimidation of peaceful activists and enact a written penal code in line with human rights standards, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. The absolute monarchy has...

PARIS- Neuroscientists on Tuesday said they had used an inkjet printer to print cells from the eye, making a practical step in the quest to grow replenishment tissue for damaged or diseased organs....