WASHINGTON - US paleontologists said Thursday they have uncovered a new dinosaur species in China's Gobi Desert that could explain how one dinosaur family came to look like birds. The finding...

TRIPOLI - Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi said on Thursday the concept of civil society has no place in his country, just as a panel headed by his son Seif al-Islam was about to propose a law permitting...

PORT-AU-PRINCE - Haiti's police chief said Thursday that bandits were preying on vulnerable earthquake survivors, even raping women, in makeshift camps set up in the capital after the disaster....

WASHINGTON - The US Senate voted Thursday to slap tough new sanctions on Iran, targeting its thirst for gasoline imports in a bid to force Tehran to bow to global pressure to freeze its suspect...

LONDON - A British doctor who stirred up controversy by suggesting a vaccination against childhood illnesses was linked to autism acted unethically in carrying out his research, a medical regulator...

PARIS - Bioscientists said on Wednesday they had turned the skin cells of mice into brain cells in less than a week, in a boost for the quest of growing tissue in a lab to replenish damaged or...

NEW YORK- New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg spoke out Wednesday against trying the alleged mastermind of 9/11 in the city, suggesting that the highly sensitive case could instead proceed on a military...

BAGHDAD, Arthur MacMillan - US troops have started joint operations with Iraqi forces both Arab and Kurdish in disputed northern zones aiming to boost trust and reduce tensions between Sunni Arabs...

NEW YORK - A significant Pablo Picasso painting was damaged after a woman attending art class lost her balance, fell into "The Actor" and tore it, The Metropolitan Museum of Art said. The...