RAMALLAH, Nasser Abu Bakr- US President Barack Obama has invited Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas to Washington in May in a fresh bid to relaunch Middle East peace talks, a Palestinian official said...

WASHINGTON, Jean-Louis Santini- Astronomers around the world this weekend mark the 20th anniversary of the launching of the iconic Hubble, NASA's first orbiting space telescope that has...

GUILDFORD, Katherine Haddon - If Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats are to be the shock success story of Britain's May 6 general election, then the affluent commuter town of Guildford should, in theory,...

CAIRO, Samer al-Atrush- President Hosni Mubarak on Saturday pledged a fair election in Egypt next year in his first speech since he had an operation last month, but also warned the opposition against...

WASHINGTON, Chris Lefkow - A new website unveiled this week may have journalists in the San Francisco area feeling a bit antsy. MediaBugs, which went online in beta, or test, mode on Tuesday, is a...

SYDNEY- Australian scientists have discovered an unlikely element in the fight against climate change -- whale poo. Experts from the Australian Antarctic Division have found that whale excrement...

NEW YORK- Veteran film-maker Woody Allen Friday confirmed the details of his latest film, a romantic comedy set in Paris which will include France's first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy in an all-star...

PARIS- A photograph of a man wiping his bottom with the French flag prompted the government on Wednesday to demand criminal proceedings against the artist that produced it. The image, one of the...

WASHINGTON, Shaun Tandon- US President Barack Obama's administration has warned that "all options" are on the table if Syria supplied Scud missiles to Hezbollah but defended its pursuit of dialogue...