TRIPOLI, Dominique Soguel- Libya's new leaders were on Wednesday urgently seeking Niger's help in preventing Moamer Kadhafi, his family or his troops from crossing the border, as the hunt for the...

CAIRO, Samer al-Atrush- The chief judge in the trial of ousted president Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday summoned high-profile witnesses including Egypt's military ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi to...

Bereaved parents were between two and four times likelier to die or become widowed in the first 10 years of the child's death compared with non-bereaved counterparts. Mothers in particular were at...

WASHINGTON, Kerry Sheridan- The US space agency plans to launch two unmanned spacecraft Thursday that will chase each other around the Moon as they use gravity measurements to draw an unprecedented...

DAMASCUS- Syria requested the 11th-hour postponement of a planned visit by the Arab League chief to press for an end to its bloody crackdown on dissent as security forces killed four more people on...

DAMASCUS- Security forces launched deadly raids to crush anti-regime dissent on Monday, activists said, as the Red Cross gained access to a Damascus jail for the first time in Syria's uprising....

In Beirut, the SKeyes Centre for Media and Cultural Freedoms issued a statement saying that Bazzi was "detained in the airport by Egypt's National Security" until he was deported. The statement...

DAMASCUS- At least 24 people were killed in violence across Syria on Sunday, reports said as the visiting Red Cross chief sought access to those detained in more than five months of anti-regime...

DAMASCUS- Syrian forces killed 27 people in two days as they quelled anti-regime protests, activists said Saturday as the Red Cross chief arrived for a visit and a punitive EU oil embargo came into...