JERUSALEM, Ines Bel Aiba- Diana Safieh was just seven years old when her family fled their west Jerusalem home on a spring night in 1948 in fear of bloody clashes between Jewish and Arab forces....

TUNGSHIH, Benjamin Yeh- When worshippers built a temple for the goddess Matsu in south Taiwan 300 years ago, they chose a spot they thought would be at a safe remove from the ocean. They did not...

MOSCOW- French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier on Friday achieved a long-held dream by presenting his first haute couture collection in Russia at a Moscow railway station. Gaultier said he was...

CAIRO- Egyptian human rights groups on Thursday protested over the renewal of a decades-old emergency law, fearing it could be used to influence the outcome of elections in Egypt over the next two...

DAMASCUS- President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday accused Israel of undermining security and stability in the Middle East, during talks with Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos....

RIGA- Latvian police Thursday released a suspected cyber-vigilante accused of leaking tax information in an internet campaign that left the Baltic nation's elite red-faced, amid protests over his...

DUBLIN- An Irish woman was among those killed when a Libyan airliner disintegrated on landing at Tripoli airport Wednesday, killing 103 people, Ireland's foreign minister said. "I regret to...

PARIS- Evidence for global warming has mounted but public awareness of the threat has shrunk, due to a cold northern winter and finger-pointing at the UN's climate experts, a top scientist warned...

LONDON, Elodie Mazein- Conservative leader David Cameron's wife Samantha combines aristocratic roots with a cool dress sense -- and is almost certainly the first British prime minister's wife with a...