CAIRO- When Egypt's state news agency announced that Prime Minister Essam Sharaf had appointed Maged Ilyas Ghattas as his environment minister, the name rang some bells -- some of them alarm bells....

CAPE CANAVERAL, Jean-Louis Santini- The shuttle Atlantis cruised home for a final time Thursday, ending its last mission to the International Space Station and closing a 30-year chapter in American...

DAMASCUS- Syrian security forces shot dead two people on Thursday as they pressed their clampdown on dissidents in the central city of Homs, the capital and elsewhere, activists said, calling for...

AMMAN- Jordan's King Abdullah II called on Thursday for protecting journalists after several reporters were beaten up as they covered a demonstration in Amman last week. "The king rejects what the...

LONDON- Two more patients have died at a British hospital where detectives fear saline solution was deliberately contaminated with insulin, taking the death toll so far to five, police said...

DOHA- Syria has apologised to Qatar for an attack by demonstrators on its embassy in Damascus that prompted it to suspend work in the strife-torn country, an official in Doha said on Wednesday....

PARIS- The scandal over attempted rape charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn deepened Wednesday after the mother of one of his accusers revealed she had herself previously had sex with him. Anne...

LONDON, Nick Morrison- On a day he called the most humble in his life, things turned downright humiliating for Rupert Murdoch who was hit by a foam-pie thrower, while his wife Wendi jumped up to...

The study, presented at an international Alzheimer's conference in Paris, is among the first attempts to link risk factors with the degenerative brain disease, which causes memory loss, disability...