LONDON, Charlotte Turner- Britain leads the world in the quality of care it provides for the dying, leaving many developed nations lagging a long way behind, according to a study released Wednesday....
ATHENS- Greece will press its claim on a shadow puppet theatre deemed to be part of Turkey's cultural heritage by UN cultural watchdog UNESCO, the foreign ministry in Athens said on Wednesday....
MUMBAI- Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan has announced his return as host of the Indian version of TV quiz "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?", 10 years after it helped revive his flagging fortunes....
LONDON- Britain and the United States did not believe Iraq's weapons of mass destruction posed a "substantial threat" before they launched military action, a former British diplomat said Monday....
NEW ORLEANS, Mira Oberman - Engineers battled Monday to replace a cap over a gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico after reporting good progress in attempts to contain the worst environmental...
KAMPALA, Ben Simon - Twin bomb attacks ripped through crowds watching the World Cup final in Kampala, killing 64 and wounding scores in blasts blamed on Al Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia,...
LONDON, - Teenagers using the social networking website Facebook in Britain can add a new Internet safety application from Monday to report suspected predatory adults. An automatic advert for the...
ATHENS- A charity headed by the second son of Libyan leader Moamar Kadhafi is sending an aid boat from Greece to Gaza on Friday to break the Israeli "siege", the organisers said.
The...
HANGA ROA- Remote and mysterious Easter Island is bracing for an influx of tourists and problems with Sunday's solar eclipse that is being seen as a mixed blessing for the tiny Pacific territory....
VIENNA- Media watchdog IPI denounced Thursday Tunisia's treatment of journalists, saying reporters were harassed or jailed if they exposed corruption.
"The environment for all critical...