RIYADH- The United Nations said on Monday that the number of people in Arab countries infected with HIV more than doubled to 470,000 in the eight years to 2009. "The number of adults and children...

CAIRO, Haitham El-Tabei- Defiant Egyptian judges hit back at President Mohamed Morsi on Saturday, demanding he reverse a decree giving himself sweeping powers that put him beyond judicial oversight...

STOCKHOLM- A past winner of the Nobel Prize in literature has called this year's choice for the award, China's Mo Yan, a "catastrophe" and accused him of "celebrating censorship", a Swedish newspaper...

DAMASCUS- Syria said on Friday plans by Turkey to site Patriot missiles along its border was "a new act of provocation," while allies Iran and Russia warned the move would complicate the situation...

BEIRUT- Four professional and citizen journalists have been killed in Syria in one week at the hands of regular troops, rebels and Kurdish militia, an international media rights watchdog said on...

LONDON- A naked man brought parts of central London to a standstill on Friday after he installed himself on a statue near Prime Minister David Cameron's office for nearly three hours. He braved the...

DAMASCUS- Syria's Arab-led rebels seized new territory in the eastern Euphrates valley from government forces on Thursday but ran into resistance from Kurdish militia on the Turkish border in a...

JERUSALEM, Hazel Ward- Israeli politicians on Thursday returned to the campaign trail as the streets of Gaza came back to life after a truce ended eight days of bloodshed, with both sides claiming...

LONDON- British commercial television network ITV said on Thursday it had paid out £125,000 to a senior politician who was wrongly linked to child sex abuse by one of its programmes and the BBC. ITV...