CAIRO- Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party clinched 80 of the 88 seats up for grab in elections for the upper house of parliament, according to final results published on Wednesday. The...

BEIRUT- A senior Palestinian official in Lebanon, Munir Maqdah, on Tuesday urged all Arabs to march across Israel's land borders with its neighbours, amid new plans to break the Israeli sea blockade...

WASHINGTON- What are the 50 words that stump readers of The New York Times the most? The newspaper on Tuesday published its annual list of the words that readers have looked up the most frequently...

JERUSALEM, Patrick Moser- The Israeli government on Monday easily defeated no-confidence motions over its May 31 raid on Gaza-bound activist aid ships but faced more calls for a probe of the deadly...

WASHINGTON- Veteran 89-year-old White House correspondent, Helen Thomas, who covered every president from John Kennedy to Barack Obama, retired Monday amid a storm over explosive remarks about...

WASHINGTON- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday called on world governments to work with the United Nations to improve women's and children's health by the UN-set target date of 2015. "I am...

JERUSALEM, Hazel Ward- Israel moved swiftly on Sunday to expel the latest group of activists trying to break its naval blockade on Gaza, as it resisted pressure for an international probe of a raid...

CHICAGO- A new agent derived from a marine sponge can extend the survival rates of women with locally recurrent or metastatic breast cancer who already received extensive standard therapy, a new...

CHICAGO- A new experimental drug helps shrink tumors in lung cancer patients with a specific form of genetic alteration, according to results from a clinical trial unveiled Saturday. The Pfizer...