DAMASCUS- Rebels seized a town on the highway to Aleppo on Tuesday in what monitors said was a blow to regime plans to reinforce troops in the northern city, the main battleground of Syria's nearly...

STOCKHOLM, Pia Ohlin- Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the US won the Nobel Prize on Tuesday for work in quantum physics that could one day open the way to revolutionary computers. The...

DAMASCUS- The Syrian army moved to crush resistance in the Homs region on Monday hoping to free up troops for the north, as Republican challenger Mitt Romney said Washington should be doing more to...

STOCKHOLM, Pia Ohlin- Shinya Yamanaka of Japan and John Gurdon of Britain won the Nobel Prize on Monday for work in cell programming, a frontier that has nourished dreams of replacement tissue for...

The breakthrough at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) touches on the agonising quest to find the "God particle," so called for being everywhere and elusive at the same time. Named...

VIENNA, Sim Sim WISSGOTT- Fascinated by contraception, chimneysweeps, or magic boxes? Vienna has a museum for you. The city may be better known for its grand art collections, but it is filled with...

DAMASCUS- Warplanes pounded rebel-held areas of Homs in the Syrian city's heaviest onslaught for months on Friday, monitors said, as Turkey reportedly returned cross-border shellfire for the second...

TRIPOLI- Libyan efforts to arrest the killers of a man credited with capturing late leader Moamer Kadhafi have turned into a siege of the city of Bani Walid, Amnesty International said Friday. Last...

AKCAKALE, Turkey- Turkey hit back with artillery strikes on Syrian targets and lawmakers authorised further military action Thursday, though Ankara insisted it was not a war mandate after deadly...