STOCKHOLM- US anti-chemical weapons campaigner Paul Walker was jointly awarded the Swedish Right Livelihood Award on Thursday honouring those who work to improve the lives of others. "Chemical...

NEW YORK CITY, Laureen Ortiz- Besides killing more than 100,000 people, Syria's civil war is exacting another irreparable toll as historic sites and artworks are looted or destroyed in the fighting....

PARIS- Years of training cause structural changes in a ballerina's brain that help her stay balanced in the pirouette, said a report Friday that may aid the treatment of chronic dizziness. Brain...

CAIRO- Egyptian security forces have shut down the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood newspaper in Cairo after raiding it and confiscating material, the Islamist movement's website reported on...

WASHINGTON- The National Security Agency eavesdropped on civil rights icon Martin Luther King and heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali as well as other leading critics of the Vietnam War in a secret...

TUNIS- A Tunisian court on Tuesday freed on bail a film director detained last month for throwing an egg at the culture minister, one of his lawyers told AFP. The Tunis court of first instance...

UNITED NATIONS- Russia-US wrangling over a resolution to enforce the destruction of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons cast a shadow Monday over the start of the United Nations...

"Scientific studies suggest that women who wear skirts are the leading cause of rape. Do you know why? Because men have eyes," Koechlin says at the start of the video, which runs for almost four...

DAMASCUS- A mortar round hit the Russian embassy compound in Damascus on Sunday, injuring three, as Moscow accused Washington of blackmailing it to win a tough UN resolution on Syria's chemical...