PARIS- Conditions suitable for life -- most notably the presence of water -- may once have existed all over Mars, the European Space Agency (ESA) said Friday. Hydrated silicate minerals were found...

LOS ANGELES, Rob Woollard- Michael Jackson fans around the world marked the first anniversary of his death on Friday, with events from candlelight vigils to slumber parties planned in honor of the...

TRIPOLI- Libya on Thursday dismissed a report by Amnesty International on rights abuse that said the North African country was stalling on reform, saying it did not reflect reality. The foreign...

JERUSALEM- Israel's right-wing Likud party backed on Thursday the expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, with an eye to a building spurt when a building moratorium expires in...

WASHINGTON- US scientists reported important progress Thursday towards building new human lungs by successfully implanting lab-cultivated cells into a rat's lungs, and by creating an artificial...

PARIS- Paris-based media rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders on Thursday launched a virtual "anti-censorship shelter" to protect bloggers around the world from repressive authorities. The...

CLERMONT FERRAND- A 23-year-old Frenchman was handed a suspended jail sentence on Thursday for hacking into US President Barack Obama's Twitter account. Francois Cousteix who surfed the web at his...

WASHINGTON- US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak will focus on reviving direct Israeli-Palestinian talks "as soon as possible" when they meet here Wednesday,...

JERUSALEM- An online video game launched on Tuesday lets you play the role of a Gaza student who must negotiate a web of Israeli obstacles in order to attend university in the occupied West Bank --...