PRAGUE- Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said Monday he had offered frail Czech freedom icon Vaclav Havel a "Tibetan method" to overcome the effects of a recent illness. "His physical...

LOS ANGELES- Holiday romance "New Year's Eve" led North American box office charts over the weekend, although sales were sluggish, industry estimates showed Sunday. The star-studded romantic...

OSLO, Nina Larson- A Liberian rights campaigner, the country's president and a Yemeni activist received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo Saturday for their work for peace and women's rights. "You...

"I don't like being lied to," said 33-year-old Yevgeny, an actor. "We've been lied to before, but this time people have had enough." He was hoping for a recount of the votes or even fresh polls,...

ANTAKYA, Nicolas Cheviron- In Antakya, a cosmopolitan Turkish city on the border with Syria, the Alawite minority has taken sides against Ankara in staunch defence of Bashar al-Assad -- dreading...

WASHINGTON- Republican White House hopeful Newt Gingrich said in an interview out Friday that the Palestinians are an "invented" people and mocked President Barack Obama's effort to be a fair broker...

SANAA- Demonstrators massed in Sanaa on Friday demanding that Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh be put on trial over his regime's bloody repression of their opposition movement. "Let the world...

VIENNA- This year's Arab Spring uprisings should affect the whole region, including Israel, Amr Mussa, the former secretary general of the Arab League and a candidate for the Egyptian presidency,...

DAMASCUS- The Arab League sought Iraq's help on Thursday in persuading Syria to allow observers on its soil as part of efforts to end unrest, as activists called for a civil disobedience campaign...