RIYADH, Acil Tabbara - More than 100 Saudi academics, activists and businessmen have called for major reforms including the establishment of a "constitutional monarchy" in the kingdom, in an Internet...

JERUSALEM- Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi may be reviled by many of his own people and the international community, but he's enjoying an unexpected surge of popularity -- as a music video star. A...

ALGIERS- Leaders of a number of Arab countries have taken reform measures in a bid to head off the type of popular discontent that has led to revolution elsewhere. Key points: LIBYA State...

LONDON- Prince William, his fiancee Kate Middleton and his younger brother Prince Harry on Friday signed a book of condolence in London for the victims of New Zealand's earthquake. They paid their...

TRIPOLI- No stranger to controversy, Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's offspring have been locked in rivalry, brushed with the law, dabbled in sport and featured in the gossip pages of Western...

BERLIN- Turkey's culture minister on Thursday demanded Germany return an ancient sphinx uncovered from a German archeological dig nearly a century ago or it would revoke permits for other...

PARIS- Many people with "locked-in" syndrome, in which they are conscious but completely paralysed, indicate they are happy, a finding with repercussions for assisted suicide, European doctors...

WASHINGTON- US President Barack Obama called New Zealand's Prime Minister John Key late Wednesday to offer assistance after the devastating earthquake in Christchurch, the White House said. Obama...

RIYADH, Omar Hasan- King Abdullah, monarch of the Gulf's most powerful Arab country, resumed power in oil-rich Saudi Arabia on Wednesday on his return to a Middle East transformed during his...