PARIS - High levels of vitamin D are linked with a lower risk of colon cancer, according to a comparison of more than half a million Europeans, published online Friday by the British Medical Journal...
LONDON, Sam Reeves - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's appearance at the Iraq war inquiry will be brought forward to before elections amid growing pressure for him to give evidence, reports said...
WASHINGTON- A widely used treatment for the herpes virus does not reduce the risk of transmission of HIV-AIDS, according to a medical study published Wednesday after a five-year trial.
The study...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Sophie Nicholson and Stephane Jourdain - A powerful new earthquake rumbled across the ruins of Haiti Wednesday, sending thousands of already traumatized survivors running through the...
DUBAI - Rights group Amnesty International called on Tuesday for Yemen to ensure that a newspaper editor and his two sons arrested earlier this month are protected from "torture and other...
RIYADH - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on Saudi businessmen to invest in his country during the first full day of a trip to the Middle Eastern oil giant.
Erdogan urged Saudis...
WASHINGTON - The most common form of malignant brain cancer in adults is actually a set of four different pathologies, according to a study published Tuesday that could lead to more targeted...
WASHINGTON - The US and Chinese governments have had "multiple meetings" about a row between Google and China over Internet freedom, and plan to have more in the next few days, a senior US diplomat...
LONDON - An 18th-century manuscript telling the original story of how Isaac Newton developed his theory of gravity after seeing an apple fall off a tree was made public Monday for the first time....
KABUL, Sardar Ahmad - Taliban gunmen and suicide bombers attacked buildings in the heart of Kabul on Monday in a security breach that triggered fierce gun battles and killed at least five people...