BOSTON, Massachusetts- Eight-year-old Martin Richard died near the Boston marathon's 26-mile marker -- the one dedicated to the young victims of the Newtown massacre. The boy was among the three dead...

BAGHDAD, Ammar Karim and Salam Faraj- Dozens of attacks across Iraq, including a brazen car bombing on the way to Baghdad airport, killed 50 people on Monday, just days before the country's first...

LONDON- Britain is "increasingly concerned" about the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian conflict, Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Monday, warning that "the world is watching". Speaking in...

DAMASCUS- Air strikes by regime warplanes killed at least 12 children in two incidents on Sunday, one targeting a Kurdish village in northeast Syria and the other a district of Damascus, a watchdog...

PARIS- Researchers in the United States on Sunday said they had bio-engineered a kidney and transplanted it into rats, marking a step forward in a quest to help patients suffering from kidney...

BEIRUT- At least 18 civilians were killed, including two children and two women, in a Syrian air raid on a rebel-held town in the northwestern province of Idlib on Saturday, a monitoring group...

ROME- Four Italian journalists held hostage in Syria for more than a week have been freed, Prime Minister Mario Monti announced Saturday, and they were flown home from Turkey. Italian media reported...

TRIPOLI, Libya- Libya's coastguard rescued 89 illegal immigrants off the western port of Zawiya after their boat broke down and five of them died, a naval official told Lana news agency on Saturday....

BEIJING, Sebastien Berger- A seven-year-old girl is Beijing's first human case of H7N9 bird flu, local authorities said on Saturday as China's outbreak of the disease spread to the capital. The girl,...