WASHINGTON- An international team of researchers has uncovered new genetic variants that increase a person's likelihood of contracting infectious diseases including tuberculosis and malaria. Their...

RAMALLAH, Nasser Abu Bakr- US envoy George Mitchell and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Wednesday held their first meeting since indirect peace negotiations with Israel were launched earlier...

PARIS, Marlowe Hood- Astronomers have discovered a new type of exploding star that spews huge quantities of calcium and defies the two known categories of supernovae, according to a pair of studies...

WASHINGTON - A US judge on Tuesday ordered the deportation of former Nazi concentration camp guard Anton Geiser to Austria. Geiser, 85, immigrated from Austria to the United States in 1956 and...

BERLIN- German Chancellor Angela Merkel will tour the Gulf region next week for talks on international security, energy and economic ties, a spokesman said Monday. Merkel will travel to the United...

CHICAGO - A mass extinction of prehistoric fish some 360 million years ago cleared the path for the evolution of modern vertebrates, a study published Monday has found. "Everything was hit; the...

JERUSALEM- Renowned Jewish-American scholar and political activist Noam Chomsky said he was barred from entering Israel and the West Bank on Sunday to speak at a Palestinian university. Chomsky...

CAIRO- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will travel to Italy on Tuesday on his first trip abroad since undergoing surgery in March, the official MENA news agency reported. Mubarak, who will be...

RIYADH, Paul Handley- Prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi resigned on Sunday from the helm of Al-Watan daily in a move believed linked to official displeasure with articles critical of the...