JERUSALEM- Israel has confiscated about 20 hectares (50 acres) of Palestinian land in the West Bank in order to give official status to a settlement outpost, settlement watchdog Peace Now said on...

CAIRO- Dozens of Egyptians protested on Thursday to demand the introduction of civil marriages, in order to be able to divorce or remarry. Protesters -- Coptic Christians as well as Muslims --...

LONDON, Danny Kemp- Media mogul Rupert Murdoch killed off the News of the World in a shock move Thursday as a spiralling scandal over phone hacking at the British tabloid threatened to infect the...

DAMASCUS- Syrian troops killed more than 20 people in an assault on the flashpoint central city of Hama that prompted US calls for an immediate pullback, human rights activists said on Wednesday....

DIWANIYAH- Iraqi authorities uncovered a mass grave with 900 corpses near the central city of Diwaniyah on Wednesday, believed to be Kurds killed during the rule of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein, an...

PARIS, Gersende Rambourg- Feathers met tutus in a ballet-themed show by Jean Paul Gaultier on the final full day of the fall-winter haute couture collections in Paris on Wednesday. Inspired by the...

DAMASCUS- Security forces killed at least 22 people in Hama Tuesday while residents mobilised to keep Syria's army out, activists said as the United States urged the regime to withdraw from the...

JEDDAH- British Foreign Secretary William Hague on Tuesday held talks in Jeddah with his Saudi counterpart Prince Saud al-Faisal on hotspots in the Arab world including Libya and Syria. "At a time...

LONDON, Alice Ritchie- Britain's top-selling Sunday tabloid vowed on Tuesday to take the "strongest possible action" if it is proven that its journalists hacked the phone of a missing teenager who...