FORT MEADE, Chris Lefkow- Bradley Manning struggled with gender issues and emotional problems while deployed in Iraq, his lawyers said Saturday, as the US soldier accused of a massive intelligence...
LONDON- The leader of Bahrain's main Shiite opposition group on Friday called on the Gulf kingdom's authorities to release a prominent human rights blogger who was detained during a protest....
CAIRO, Samer al-Atrush- At least three people were killed and 257 wounded on Friday as Egyptian protesters and security forces clashed in the worst violence in weeks, overshadowing the vote count in...
WASHINGTON, Arthur MacMillan- Renowned and provocative British writer and polemicist Christopher Hitchens, whose targets ranged from God and Mother Teresa to Henry Kissinger, has died after an...
PARIS- After Iceland's formal recognition of the Palestinian state on Thursday, at least 112 countries around the world have recognised Palestine, according to an AFP count.
In Latin America,...
One light year is the distance that light travels in 365 Earth days, about 9.46 trillion kilometres or 5.87 trillion miles.
"We caught the supernova just 11 hours after it exploded, so soon that...
THE HAGUE- The daughter of slain Libyan strongman Moamer Kadhafi has asked the International Criminal Court if it will probe the killing of her father and her brother, her lawyer said Wednesday....
NEW YORK, Sebastian Smith- At the stroke of midnight this New Year's, millions of people around the globe will hold hands and belt out the famous song "Auld Lang Syne" -- but how many will have a...
DAMASCUS- Army defectors ambushed a Syrian security patrol Tuesday, killing seven in revenge for a raid that cost 11 civilian lives, activists said, as the UN estimated more than 5,000 have died in...
ABU DHABI, Nathalie Gillet- A British explorer and two Emiratis on Tuesday completed a 44-day trek across one of the world's largest deserts, the Empty Quarter, in the footsteps of the late traveller...
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