President Evo Morales, Bolivia's minister of culture and diplomats from Belgium were also in attendance. The expedition began two months ago on the Bolivian side of the lake, which is shared with...

BEIRUT- Rebels launched a major assault Monday on two key military bases in northwestern Syria, with at least 14 people killed in the heaviest fighting the area has seen in months, activists said....

CAIRO, Samer Al-Atrush- Suspected militants killed nine people in attacks in Egypt on Monday, a day after clashes between Islamists and police left dozens dead and dashed hopes of restored calm after...

LONDON- Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, shot last year by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' schooling, has been invited to a Buckingham Palace reception to meet Queen Elizabeth II,...

LONDON- Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai's first thought was "Thank God I'm not dead" as she woke up terrified in British hospital after a Taliban gunman shot her in the head, according to...

DAMASCUS- International inspectors were on Friday gearing up to disable war-hit Syria's chemical weapons programme after reporting "encouraging" progress in a day of meetings with regime officials....

SANTIAGO- A Chilean education advisory group recommended Friday that schools use "dictatorship" rather than "military regime" in textbooks to describe General Augusto Pinochet's rule marred by rights...

ANKARA- Turkey's parliament on Thursday extended for one year a mandate that would allow Ankara to send troops to war-ravaged Syria if necessary. The motion put forward by the government was voted in...

LAGOS- Schools attacks in northern Nigeria have grown more frequent and deadly this year, forcing thousands to abandon their education, with most of the violence blamed on Boko Haram Islamists,...