SHANGHAI- One of China's most famous and controversial bloggers Han Han on Tuesday announced he was shutting down his magazine "Party" after just one issue, but denied the move stemmed from a dispute...

JERUSALEM- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that an "interim agreement" with the Palestinians could be a solution if efforts to clinch a comprehensive peace accord fail....

RAMADI, Bassem al-Anbari- Twin bombings targeting Iraqi government offices in Ramadi Monday killed seven people and wounded dozens, in a first test for Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki since he assumed...

KUWAIT CITY, Omar Hasan- Kuwaiti courts on Monday kept two leading activists detained on charges of undermining the emir and premier, a day ahead of a crucial showdown between opposition MPs and the...

TEHRAN, Hiedeh Farmani- Iran has halted the execution of Kurdish student Habibolah Latifi, who was due to be hanged on Sunday for backing a separatist rebel group, his lawyer told the ISNA news...

JERUSALEM- Israeli police on Sunday deployed across the flashpoint east Jerusalem district of Silwan after the city's mayor raised the prospect of evictions at a Jewish building and an Arab home in...

YEREVAN, Mariam Harutunian- When police officers arrived at 13-year-old Masha's home, searched her room and inspected her computer, it was not because they suspected her of any crime. Her offence...

LONDON- An annual Christmas Day swimming race in London was called off Saturday after the water froze and a midwife had to ski to a mother-to-be on a snowbound Danish island. But European flights...

JOS- A series of unprecedented Christmas Eve bomb blasts and attacks on churches have left at least 38 people dead in Nigeria as authorities worked Saturday to keep the violence from spreading....