ALGIERS, Beatrice Khadige- Ahmed Ben Bella, the first president of independent Algeria and one of the 20th century's most vocal anti-imperialists, died Wednesday at the age of 95. Ben Bella, who had...

ADEN- At least 46 people were killed in a third day of clashes on Wednesday between Yemeni soldiers backed by tribesmen and Al-Qaeda militants trying to take over a strategic town in the south, local...

TRIPOLI- An explosive device was thrown at a convoy carrying the head of the United Nations mission to Libya on Tuesday, a UN spokeswoman said, adding that there were no casualties. "While on a visit...

BAGHDAD- Iraqi MPs have approved the first independent human rights commission in the country's history, with a remit to track rights violations, lawmaker Ashwaq al-Jaff said on Tuesday. "The main...

PARIS, Mariette le Roux- Learning to work in teams may explain why humans evolved a bigger brain, according to a new study published on Wednesday. Compared to his hominid predecessors, Homo sapiens...

STOCKHOLM, Igor Gedilaghine- Are you lonely? Do you miss a loved one? Is your marriage on the rocks? Just place a call to a Stockholm opera and a singer will make a house call with an aria specially...

DAMASCUS- Tens of thousands of Syrian protesters took to the streets on Friday under fire from regime forces, who pressed their campaign to pound rebel cities into submission, activists said. The...

DAMASCUS- Syria on Sunday demanded guarantees that armed groups cease fire before withdrawing its troops from protest hubs as agreed with special envoy Kofi Annan, even as a UN truce deadline loomed....

SANAA, Hammoud Mounassar- Sanaa airport reopened Sunday after a one-day shutdown over threats from loyalists of a sacked general close to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, as Washington praised...