JERUSALEM- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that he hoped for a "flowering of liberty and democracy in the Arab world," while denouncing Iran for what he said was an attempt...

LOS ANGELES- An Iraqi immigrant was convicted of murder in Arizona on Tuesday for running over his daughter, in what the prosecution called an honor killing. Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 50, was found...

PARIS- Two medical investigations published on Tuesday have strengthened arguments that modest daily consumption of alcohol is good for the heart and the blood system. People who drink alcohol in...

ARBIL, Abdel Hamid Zebari- A play whose plot took actors and audience alike across Iraq's Kurdish capital of Arbil this week delivered a stinging portrait of the northern region's leaders as...

TUNIS- Tunisia on Monday formally asked Saudi Arabia to extradite the wife of ousted strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and took steps to dissolve his ruling party as protests continued against the...

TRIPOLI- Protesters on Monday overran several Libyan cities and Tripoli was rocked by violence some residents said was a "massacre," as the pillars of Moamer Kadhafi's hardline four-decade rule began...

CAIRO- Saif al-Islam Kadhafi, the son of strongman Moamer Kadhafi, said Monday that Libya was on the verge of civil war and branded the unprecedented protests against his father's rule a foreign...

WASHINGTON- Ink-jet printing technology has inspired scientists to look for ways to build sheets of skin that could one day be used for grafts in burn victims, experts said Sunday. One technique...

DAMASCUS- A jailed Syrian Kurdish blogger and rights activist, Kamal Hussein Sheikho, is on a hunger strike, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. "He began a hunger strike five...