DAMASCUS- Rain, not protesters, flooded the streets of Damascus on Friday after Muslim prayers when a "dayhttp://en.hdhod.com/admin/editer_article/2671063/ of anger" had been promoted by online...

MADRID- Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka was Friday honoured with a Spanish award worth 400,000 euros ($544,000) for his pioneering work on cell reprogramming. Yamanaka won the BBVA Foundation...

GENEVA- The World Health Organisation is advising people to engage in at least 150 minutes of "moderate" physical exercise a week to reduce the risk of breast and colon cancers, in new...

PARIS- Paris will host a new international donor conference for a Palestinian state in June, ministers from donor countries and the so-called Quartet on the Middle East said following talks here...

RABAT- A group of young Moroccans called Thursday for pro-reform demonstrations later this month via Facebook, in the latest example of Web-driven anti-government protests across the Arab world....

PARIS- An international consortium of scientists has found five variants of genes which are linked to Parkinson's disease, bringing the tally to 11, according to a paper published on Wednesday by The...

LONDON- A veteran BBC journalist launched a sarcastic broadside against new media and senior management Wednesday, dismissing his flagship news show's daily email bulletin as an "exercise in...

LONDON- Amnesty International urged Britain to help ease the "harsh and punitive" detention conditions of Bradley Manning, the US soldier suspected of leaking information to WikiLeaks. The rights...

CAIRO, Sara Hussein- Massive tides of peaceful protesters flooded Cairo and Egypt's second city Alexandria Tuesday in a "march of a million" that ratcheted up the pressure on President Hosni Mubarak...