KUWAIT CITY- At least five people, including a security man, were hurt and dozens arrested on Friday as Kuwaiti riot police clashed with hundreds of stateless Arab protesters demanding rights. The...

WASHINGTON, Karin Zeitvogel- China has its eye on becoming the top science nation in the world, overtaking the United States and European nations, researchers at a US science conference said Friday....

RAMALLAH- The Palestinians have refused a compromise offered by Washington to withdraw a UN resolution condemning Jewish settlements, foreign minister Riyad al-Maliki said Thursday. The draft...

WASHINGTON, Jean-Louis Santini- US researchers looking at how stress affects the gut stumbled upon a potent chemical that caused mice to regrow hair by blocking a stress-related hormone, said a study...

ALGIERS- Algeria said Wednesday it will lift by the end of February the state of emergency slapped on the country 19 years ago at the start of a decade-long bloody conflict with Islamist militants....

CAIRO, Jailan Zayan- Egyptian workers tested Wednesday the limits of the freedom they won in the revolt against Hosni Mubarak, staging pay strikes despite calls from the new military regime for them...

NEW YORK- Top CBS News foreign correspondent Lara Logan suffered a brutal sexual assault at the hands of a mob in Egypt while covering the downfall of president Hosni Mubarak, the network said on...

LONDON- The defector whose claims that Iraq had biological weapons were used to justify the 2003 US invasion has admitted that he lied to help get rid of Saddam Hussein, the Guardian newspaper said...

WASHINGTON- International scientists have discovered a chemical reaction that has caused the once-vivid yellows in Vincent van Gogh's paintings to turn brown, according to a study published Monday in...