SYDNEY- Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi called on World AIDS Day Sunday for an end to discrimination against those living with the disease as experts warned against complacency in fighting the global...

BEIRUT- At least 20 people, including seven women and a child, were killed in an aerial bombardment on Saturday of Al-Bab in Syria's Aleppo province, an NGO said. Regime helicopters dropped...

TRIPOLI- Six people, including a 15-year-old schoolboy, were killed and 22 others wounded on Saturday in sectarian clashes in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, a security source told AFP. The...

KINSHASA, Habibou Bangre- African superstar and king of Congolese rumba Tabu Ley Rochereau died on Saturday aged 76 in a hospital in Belgium, his family said. Tributes poured in for the...

DAMASCUS- At least four people were killed Friday in mortar fire near the famed Ummayad mosque in Damascus, as Syrian forces pressed an operation against rebels in the strategic Qalamoun region....

BENGHAZI- A soldier and a policemen were shot dead on Friday in another day of violence targeting security forces in Libya's second city Benghazi, a hospital official said. The killings come a day...

CAIRO, Jay Deshmukh- Egyptian police arrested nearly 200 people Friday, clamping down harshly on Islamists defying a new law banning unauthorised demonstrations that has also angered prominent...

CAIRO, Jay Deshmukh, Haitham El-Tabei- The changing fortunes of Egypt's Islamists can be read in the lines of grief on the face of Amany Sonbol, whose son fell in a hail of bullets at a Cairo protest...

BERLIN, Frederic Happe- Berlin's historic Zoo Palast cinema re-opens Thursday after a major renovation to restore the sparkle to the former Cold War-era theatre, once the star-studded cultural boast...