PARIS- Doctors should read up on Shakespeare, according to an unusual medical study that says the Bard was exceptionally skilled at spotting psychosomatic symptoms. Kenneth Heaton, a doctor at the...

TUNIS- Tunisia's three main parties formalised a power-sharing agreement on Monday, 10 months after the ouster of the north African country's strongman Zine el Abidine Ben Ali. Hamadi Jebali of...

TRIPOLI, Imed Lamloum- Moamer Kadhafi's son Seif al-Islam and his spymaster Abdullah Senussi were on Monday both behind bars as Libya's new leaders moved to bring the former regime's two most wanted...

LILLE, Emmanuelle Michel- From a randy Dominique Strauss-Kahn to a diminutive Nicolas Sarkozy, a French blogger has become an Internet hit by needling the rich and powerful with knitted dolls in sly...

CAIRO, Samer al-Atrush - seven demonstrator were killed and hundreds of people injured on Saturday as Egyptian police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to break up a sit-in organised by some of the...

HALIFAX, Michel Comte- Syria's president has reached "a point of no return" and faces the same fate as former despots in Libya and Iraq, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Saturday. "I think...

On September 23, the European team issued a massive challenge to fundamental physics by saying they had measured particles called neutrinos which travelled around six kilometres (3.75 miles) per...

BAGHDAD- Iraq's radical anti-US Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has expressed support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, even as much of the Arab world turns against the embattled strongman....

KUWAIT CITY, Omar Hasan- Kuwait's emir on Thursday ordered authorities to take all necessary measures to maintain security after angry protesters stormed parliament, but the opposition remained...