MOSCOW, Dmitry Zaks and Anna Malpas- A suicide bomber killed at least 35 people and wounded dozens Monday when he blew himself up in the packed arrivals hall of Moscow's largest airport in an attack...
LONDON- Scientists said Monday they were moving closer to coming up with a non-physical definition of the kilo after discovering the metal artefact used as the international standard had shed a...
NEW DELHI- Legendary Indian singer Bhimsen Joshi, who was best known for promoting classical Indian music to audiences around the world, died on Monday at the age of 89.
Joshi died at a hospital...
DUBAI- Palestinian negotiators offered in 2008 to cede vast swathes of annexed east Jerusalem in peace talks with Israel, Al-Jazeera news channel reported on Sunday, citing "secret documents."...
DAMASCUS- A Syrian security court on Sunday sentenced four communist dissidents, arrested in May 2009, to jail terms of four to over seven years on charges of belonging to a secret organisation,...
RIYADH, Acil Tabbara- Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, the octogenarian ruler of the world's largest oil exporter, flew in to Morocco on Saturday to convalesce after undergoing back surgery in the...
WASHINGTON- Experts use different parts of their brains than amateurs, maximizing intuition, goal-seeking and pattern-recognition, said a study out Thursday that examined players of shogi, or...
TEL AVIV, Philippe Rater- France will vote for a UN Security Council resolution on Israeli settlements drafted by Arab states if it is moderate and does not halt a resumption of peace talks, its...
GENEVA- Switzerland has returned four mummies to Chile, including two of them among the world's oldest, after their private owner agreed to their restitution, cultural authorities said Thursday....
ALGIERS- Three people in Algeria attempted suicide by fire Wednesday, bringing the total number of such actions to eight in a week, in a replica of protests that ousted the president of neighboring...