WALLOPS ISLAND- NASA has launched an unmanned spacecraft that aims to study the Moon's atmosphere, the US space agency's third lunar probe in five years. Blazing a red path in the night sky, the...

PARIS- US Secretary of State John Kerry spoke at length in French on Saturday as he outlined the case for military action against the Syrian regime to an increasingly sceptical French public. Kerry,...

JERUSALEM- Israeli police fired stun grenades at stone-throwing Palestinian protesters after Friday prayers in Jerusalem's Old City, arresting 15 of them, police said. "Several hundred Palestinian...

SAINT PETERSBURG, Hui Min Neo, Stuart Williams- US President Barack Obama and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin failed Friday to end their bitter dispute over US plans for military action in Syria,...

KHOST, Khan Mohammad- Suspected Taliban in Afghanistan shot dead Indian author Sushmita Banerjee, whose book about her dramatic escape from the militants in the 90s became a Bollywood film, police...

WASHINGTON- A new software tool may help doctors eliminate mistakes when judging whether a spot that turns up on a smoker's lung scan is cancerous or not, researchers said Wednesday. The clinical...

WASHINGTON, Stephen Collinson- President Barack Obama has signed up power brokers in Congress for strikes on Syria but, in an era of insurgent politics haunted by Iraq, there is no guarantee the rank...

DAMASCUS, Rana Moussaoui- These are the new "tourists" in Damascus: families fleeing the violence in their hometowns who now live in decrepit hotels, packed into tiny spaces where they even cook in...

CAIRO- Egypt's interim president Adly Mansour on Tuesday vowed his government will stick to a timetable for elections next year and hoped to lift a state of emergency in mid-September. Mansour, in...