GAZA CITY, Adel Zaanoun- Israeli jets carried out a series of strikes in Gaza late Monday and early Tuesday, wounding 17 people, mostly lightly, Palestinian emergency workers said. They said that...

KAMAISHI, Olivia Hampton- Workers were close to restoring power to a nuclear plant's overheating reactors as the toll of dead or missing from Japan's worst natural disaster in nearly a century passed...

PARIS- Air strikes by Britain, France and the United States on Libyan territory are being coordinated at a US headquarters in Germany, a French official told AFP on Saturday. "This is a...

BERLIN- Knut the polar bear, who became a global media sensation as a cub after being rejected by his mother and reared by hand, died suddenly for unexplained reasons on Saturday, the Berlin Zoo...

SANAA, Jamal al-Jaberi and Hammoud Mounassar- Beleaguered Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh ordered a state of emergency after regime loyalists on Friday killed at least 46 protesters, according to...

RIYADH- Saudi King Abdullah on Friday announced unprecedented economic benefits worth tens of billions of dollars and warned against any attempt to undermine the kingdom, as upheaval swept the Arab...

DAMASCUS- Syria on Thursday charged 32 demonstrators with attacking the reputation of the state a day after they joined a rally calling for the release of political prisoners, a rights group said....

DAMASCUS- Security forces in Syria on Wednesday arrested more than 25 protesters in the capital Damascus on a second day of rare protests that are banned under emergency laws in place since 1963....

SYDNEY- Vision of the disastrous tsunami rolling onto Japan after last week's massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake will provide valuable data to scientists for years to come, Australian experts said...