LONDON, Marie-Pierre Ferey- Russian tycoon Alexander Lebedev, who owns three British newspapers, will launch the country's first quality daily in 25 years this week in a risky bid to grab more of the...

AMMAN- Jordan's information minister said on Saturday that freedom of expression was guaranteed after Human Rights Watch said there had been several arrests ahead of a November 9 general election....

VATICAN CITY, Catherine Jouault- Catholic bishops in the Middle East urged the United Nations Saturday to end the Israeli occupation of Arab lands at the end of a meeting chaired by Pope Benedict...

LONDON- Graphic accounts of torture, civilian killings and Iran's hand in the Iraq war are detailed in hundreds of thousands of US military documents made public Friday on the whistleblower website...

BASRA, Anwar Faruqi- Iraq's first specialist cancer hospital for children could not have opened in a needier location -- since 1993, Basra province has seen a sharp rise in the incidence of childhood...

SANTIAGO, Paulina Abramovich- One week after being hoisted from the depths of a collapsed mine in Chile, the 33 rescued workers say they are fed up with celebrity, the media scrum and even the...

WELLINGTON, Neil Sands- British actor Martin Freeman from "The Office" was officially cast in the starring role of "The Hobbit" Friday, as New Zealand flagged a last-ditch compromise to stop the...

WASHINGTON- YouTube, Facebook and the Nobel Foundation are giving members of the public the opportunity to ask questions of some of the 2010 Nobel laureates. Questions for the Nobel winners can be...

JERUSALEM, Gavin Rabinowitz- Israel on Wednesday marked the 15th anniversary of the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin at the hands of a Jewish extremist opposed to peace with the...