VIENNA - The international fashion broadcaster Fashion TV on Monday accused the Iranian authorities of blocking its programmes. The Vienna-based station's complaint came after Britain's BBC,...

WASHINGTON- US Vice President Joe Biden will tour the Middle East in early March with stops in Israel, the Palestinian territories, Egypt and Jordan, the White House said Monday. Biden will meet...

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican will soon make some of its World War II archives available for free on the Internet, the Holy See's daily l'Osservatore Romano said on Monday. The 8,000 pages of...

ROBBEN ISLAND- South African icon Nelson Mandela's former prison Robben Island held its tenth annual Valentine's Day wedding ceremony on Sunday in which 25 couples tied the knot. Dressed in...

PARIS - A drug used to treat genital herpes can also slow progression of the AIDS virus among co-infected patients, doctors report on Monday. Most people infected with HIV are also coincidentally...

JERUSALEM - Arab Israeli MPs were angered on Saturday by advice from Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon that their minority should be transferred to a future Palestinian state. "Arab...

DOHA, Acil Tabbara - US President Barack Obama on Saturday named Rashad Hussain as his special envoy to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, aiming to build on pledges to restore ties with the...

DUBAI - Hamas is conducting its own internal inquiry into the killing in Dubai last month of one of its top militants, the Palestinian Islamist group's exiled head said in an interview published...

KABUL, Lynne O'Donnell - Thousands of US-led troops have begun a major offensive against one of the Taliban insurgents' last bastions in southern Afghanistan, a NATO official said Saturday. The...