TUNIS, Kaouther Larbi- Radical Salafist Muslims murdered Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid, with four suspects arrested and the killer identified but still on the run, Interior Minister Ali...

CAIRO- A controversial Egyptian Islamist was freed on bail on Monday after he was held in custody for four days on charges of insulting Christianity, a judicial official said. Ahmed Abdullah, an...

CAIRO- Protesters on Sunday blocked the doors to Cairo's main administrative building as part of a growing campaign of civil disobedience around the country against Islamist President Mohamed Morsi....

WASHINGTON, Jean-Louis Santini- Scientists are delving deep into the travels of whales -- thanks to high-tech tracking devices -- to try to help protect them. Except for a few species, global whale...

LONDON, United Kingdom, Nicolas Revise- John Kerry will push his Russian counterpart to apply pressure on Syria when they meet during the new US Secretary of State's marathon tour of allies in Europe...

DAMASCUS- Syria's main opposition group said on Saturday that it was pulling out of international talks and demanded world action to stop the slaughter of Syrians, after missiles slammed into the...

BEIRUT- The opposition National Coalition announced late Friday it was pulling out of a Friends of Syria meeting in Rome and scheduled talks in Russia and the United States. The statement said the...

LONDON- Britain's Prince Charles bestowed a knighthood Wednesday on Quentin Blake, whose scratchy drawings of Roald Dahl characters have made him one of the world's best-loved children's...

WASHINGTON- So much for Mars being "The Red Planet." NASA said Wednesday that its Curiosity rover has scooped up a sample from the interior of a Martian rock and found that the powdery soil just...