IN AMENAS, Algeria- An American hostage was confirmed dead Friday amid uncertainty over the fate of other foreigners held at an Algerian gas plant, with their captors demanding a prisoner swap and an...

DAMASCUS- More than 100 civilians have been killed in a new "massacre" in Syria, a watchdog said Thursday, as Russia slammed the United States for blaming deadly blasts at a university campus on the...

ALGIERS, Beatrice Khadige- Foreign governments voiced alarm Thursday over the fate of their citizens seized by Islamists at a gas plant in the Algerian desert, where a dramatic rescue operation left...

BAGHDAD- Iraq's finance minister, who has been locked in dispute with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, escaped an apparent assassination attempt on Sunday when his convoy was struck by a roadside bomb....

CAIRO- At least 25 people were killed on Wednesday when a 12-storey building collapsed in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria, the health ministry said. Another 12 people were injured, deputy...

PARIS- A lobster thrown live into boiling water may suffer for many seconds, said a scientist who argued Thursday that crustaceans can likely feel pain. A set of experiments on crabs revealed that...

DAMASCUS- Twin blasts ripped through the university campus in Syria's second city Aleppo on Tuesday killing at least 82 people and wounding scores more, the provincial governor said. There were...

DHAKA- A self-styled "militant atheist" who is famed for his anti-religious blogs was fighting for life Tuesday after he was stabbed in the capital of Muslim-majority Bangladesh, police and medics...

DAMASCUS- At least 26 children were killed in violence in Syria on Monday, a watchdog said, fuelling international calls for a war crimes probe into the 22-month conflict. Reports of the child deaths...