VATICAN CITY- Pope Benedict XVI urged an end Saturday to conflict in the Middle East and support for the region's Christians, saying those living in Iraq needed comfort from their pain after deadly...

JERUSALEM- Israeli warplanes hit four targets in the Gaza Strip early Saturday without causing casualties, officials said, after militants fired a mortar and rocket into Israel. The airstrikes...

BAGHDAD, W.G. Dunlop- Christians across the Middle East prepared on Friday to celebrate Christmas, some in fear of attacks, as in Iraq, and others in the most discreet way possible, as in Saudi...

TUNIS- A Tunisian teenager died on Friday and ten others were injured when protestors attacked a national guard post in a region gripped by tensions over youth joblessness, students and the...

NICOSIA- A picture depicting a naked Aphrodite on the new biometric passports being issued by Cyprus has caused a stir with diplomats raising concern that it could offend some Islamic nations....

BAGHDAD, W.G. Dunlop- Iraq's new cabinet held its first meeting on Wednesday, faced with "enormous" challenges to improve security, public services and ties with other countries, following months of...

SYDNEY- The creators of Australian Internet hit "Rap News" Wednesday said they were still "pinching themselves" after controversial and reclusive WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared in a cameo...

LONDON- A British spy whose body was found padlocked inside a bag at his London flat in August visited bondage websites before his death and had a huge stash of women's designer clothes, police said...

PORT-AU-PRINCE- French families arrived in Haiti late Tuesday to fetch a group of Haitian children they adopted in the wake of a devastating earthquake that ravaged the impoverished country nearly a...