BEIJING- Two people were stabbed to death Friday at Beijing's Forbidden City, the vast former imperial palace that is China's top tourist attraction, by a man who then attempted suicide, police said....

WASHINGTON- The National Security Agency's website went down Friday and the US spy service known for hacking into computer networks said it was investigating the outage, a spokesperson said. "We are...

DAMASCUS- A car bomb outside a mosque near Damascus killed at least 40 people on Friday, an NGO said, as a top UN official expressed mounting concern over hundreds of thousands of trapped civilians....

JOHANNESBURG- A museum of African design opened in a renovated Johannesburg warehouse Thursday, promising to showcase work by the continent's finest contemporary artists. Around 200 works by 100...

DAMASCUS- Syrian troops captured a key town southeast of Damascus on Thursday, a military source said, as they sought to close in on suburbs struck by chemical weapons in August. Meanwhile, the...

BERLIN- German Chancellor Angela Merkel demanded answers from President Barack Obama on Wednesday after learning US spies may have monitored her phone, warning this would be "breach of trust" between...

WASHINGTON- US officials were working hard behind the scenes Wednesday to try to persuade the Syrian opposition to agree to join peace talks mooted for next month. US ambassador to Syria Robert Ford,...

WASHINGTON, Kerry Sheridan- A little girl who was treated for HIV shortly after birth still shows no sign of infection at age three, suggesting her apparent cure was not a fluke, US researchers said...

ROME- A descendant of Florence's famous Medici family told AFP on Tuesday that mass tourism was a "threat" to his native city and called for it to be put on a Unesco list of endangered areas. "There...