LONDON- It was intended as a lighthearted addition to an otherwise serious list of women who made the headlines in 2011. But the BBC's inclusion of a panda in its "faces of the year" has kicked up a...
JERUSALEM, Daphne Matthieu- Israel on Wednesday approved plans for a large tourism complex in the heart of Arab east Jerusalem and another 130 homes for Jews elsewhere in the Holy City's annexed...
LONDON- The Times newspaper in London on Wednesday named Mohamed Bouazizi, the Tunisian fruit seller who unwittingly started a wave of protests known as the Arab Spring, as its person of 2011.
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"The terrorists... were part of a wide global jihad infrastructure that includes terrorists from the Gaza Strip and Egypt," military sources told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Palestinian medics...
MONTREAL, Michel Viatteau- Doctors in a domed laboratory in Canada are designing a virtual world where they hope to one day treat traumatized children with colorful avatars using toy-like medical...
ROME, Ljubomir Milasin- Ancient manuscripts are treated like hospital patients at a famous book restoration institute in Rome that has worked on everything from the Dead Sea Scrolls to one of the...
VATICAN CITY, Dario Thuburn- Pope Benedict XVI prayed for the victims of famine, floods and conflict in his Christmas message Sunday as a string of bomb attacks targeting churches in Nigeria killed...
DAMASCUS- Thousands of people on Saturday attended prayers in memory of the 44 people killed by suicide bombers in Syria's capital as charge and counter-charge swirled over who was behind the...
CAMBRIDGE, Ben Stansall- Britain's Prince Philip was in "good spirits" after his wife Queen Elizabeth II and his children visited him in hospital Saturday as he recovered from heart surgery,...
Maliki, meanwhile, has called for his Sunni deputy Saleh al-Mutlak to be sacked, and the Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc, to which both Hashemi and Mutlak belong, has boycotted both parliament and the...
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