BRUSSELS - Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas on Tuesday denounced Israeli "provocation" over two contested holy sites in the occupied West Bank that could unleash a "religious war". Netanyahu...

UNITED NATIONS, Gerard Aziakou - The UN General Assembly has scheduled a meeting on Friday to decide whether to repeat its demand that Israel and the Palestinians conduct proper probes into...

PARIS - Women who undergo in-vitro fertility (IVF) treatment are four times more likely to have a stillbirth compared with those who conceive spontaneously or with a different fertility technique, a...

PARIS- Small domesticated dogs probably originated in the Middle East more than 12,000 years ago as the descendants of grey wolves, according to a gene study published on Wednesday. University of...

SHANGHAI, D'Arcy Doran - Whether it is about US arms sales to Taiwan or how the film epic "Confucius" stacks up to "Avatar", the world's first snapshot of Chinese opinion often comes from...

VIENNA- An international press freedom group on Monday criticised Turkey over the trial of a Kurdish journalist who is threatened with 525 years in jail. Vedat Kursun, former head of the daily...

NEW YORK, Luis Torres de la Llosa - An Afghan immigrant and self-confessed Al-Qaeda agent, Najibullah Zazi, pleaded guilty Monday to attempting to blow up New York's subway system in protest against...

ISTANBUL - A huge poster showing Israel's president bowing to the Turkish prime minister was hung from an Istanbul crane Sunday in the latest round of sniping between the two nations, media reports...

TEHRAN- Iran has banned travel agencies from organising tours to countries where concerts are held during Shiite mourning holidays, newspapers quoted a tourism official as saying Saturday. The...