CANNES- Here is a selection of treats, shocks, rows and other highlights from the 63rd Cannes film festival, which saw Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul win the Palme d'Or top prize on Sunday...

WASHINGTON- The Hubble space telescope has discovered a planet in our galaxy in the process of being devoured by the star that it orbits, according to a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal...

JERUSALEM- The Israeli military said Sunday it would implement a series of measures to ease restrictions on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. The military said it had decided to open a road...

PARIS, Marlowe Hood- The rapid decline of mammoths and other megafauna after humans spread across the New World may explain a bone-chilling plunge in global temperatures some 12,800 years ago,...

LOS ANGELES- "Shrek Forever After," the first 3-D sequel for the lovable ogre, opened this weekend at the top of the North American box office, ending "Iron Man 2's" two-week reign, preliminary...

DAMASCUS- US Senator John Kerry met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a second time in as many months on Saturday for talks on "regional issues," the American embassy in Damascus said. "Kerry...

JERUSALEM- Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinian gunmen who had just infiltrated Israel from the Islamist-run Gaza Strip on Friday, the military said. "There was an exchange of fire between the...

SAN FRANCISCO- Internet giant Google marked the 30th birthday of Pac-Man by featuring the classic arcade videogame in the first-ever playable doodle on its home page. Web users who opened Google's...

JERUSALEM- Israel on Thursday released a Hamas lawmaker arrested nearly four years ago following the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier by Gaza militants in a deadly cross-border raid, prison...