WASHINGTON- Humpback whales love a good hit single, and every year a new catchy pop tune spreads among the male underwater crooners, said an Australian study released Thursday. The men are the...

WASHINGTON- President Barack Obama's top national security aide Tom Donilon held "positive and productive" talks in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the White House said Wednesday....

PARIS- Skin cells have become lab-dish tools for probing one of the most enigmatic and distressing disorders of the mind, scientists reported on Wednesday. Researchers in the United States took...

PARIS- Astronomers said on Tuesday they believed the first galaxies formed just 200 million years after the Big Bang, a finding that challenges assumptions of how the Universe grew from infancy into...

KESENNUMA, Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura- Japan added to the evacuation zone near a stricken nuclear plant, as a powerful aftershock rattled the nation a month after its biggest recorded earthquake...

DUBAI- The United Arab Emirates has arrested two more activists, a group of Arab Gulf intellectuals said on Monday, bringing to three the number of political activists detained there over the...

TRIPOLI- The regime of Libya's Moamer Kadhafi has accepted an African Union (AU) peace plan designed to end the current conflict, South African President Jacob Zuma said in Tripoli on Sunday. "The...

DUBAI- Vanity Fair has stirred controversy with an article panning the Gulf city state of Dubai, which has pumped millions into cultivating an image of high glamour. The iconic magazine's April...

BERLIN, Patrick Rahir- Already a magnet for tourists and young artists, Berlin is attracting a new generation of Internet start-ups, changing the ways scientists interact or musicians store and share...