WASHINGTON- The Nobel laureate who helped to discover HIV says there is hope for an AIDS cure following recent discoveries, in an interview with AFP ahead of a global conference on the disease....

CAIRO- Egypt's former spy chief and vice president Omar Suleiman is to receive a military funeral in Cairo on Saturday, the official MENA news agency reported. "General Omar Suleiman, former vice...

DAMASCUS- Rebels seized control of all of Syria's border crossings with Iraq on Thursday, dealing a new blow to President Bashar al-Assad, as China and Russia dismayed the West by blocking UN action...

PARIS- Hundreds of emails purportedly written by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad show he sent several sexist or irreverant messages in the months before the ongoing Syrian uprising began. The French...

CAIRO- Egypt's new President Mohamed Morsi held his first meeting with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Wednesday, amid expectations that the Islamist would be more supportive of the...

PARIS- Astronomers said Wednesday they had stumbled upon an astonishing spiral galaxy that was born nearly 11 billion years ago, a finding that could spur a rethink of how galaxies formed after the...

RIYADH- A Lebanese man nicknamed the "tattoo king" has been sentenced to one year in prison and 200 lashes in the conservative Muslim kingdom, a Saudi newspaper reported on Tuesday. "Investigations...

PARIS- UN culture and science body UNESCO on Tuesday awarded a prize financed by the leader of Equatorial Guinea despite fierce criticism from rights groups who decried the move as "shameful". Rights...

KHARTOUM, Ian Timberlake- Protests which began more than a month ago in Sudan are ridiculously small, linked to opposition political parties and amount to nothing, a senior ruling party official said...