SANTIAGO - Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas on Thursday dismissed Israel's temporary freeze on settlement building as bringing "nothing new" to the long-stalled Middle East peace process. It...

MANAUS, Yana Marull - French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in Brazil Thursday for a one-day meeting on climate change and Amazon forest conservation, hailed new US and Chinese proposals on combating...

LONDON - A novel for teenagers about the US prison in Guantanamo Bay written by a rock star's wife was nominated Wednesday for a prestigious children's book prize in Britain. "Guantanamo Boy" by...

LONDON- Britain said Wednesday it wants Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposal for a temporary halt in settlement building to help resume Middle East peace talks. Foreign Secretary...

JERUSALEM, Charly Wegman - An Israeli minister said on Tuesday that an agreement with Hamas to swap a Gaza-held soldier for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners was "very close," despite earlier...

WASHINGTON - Three-quarters of US women disagree with a high-level panel's recommendations to raise the age of breast cancer screening and even more plan to ignore the guidelines, a poll showed...

ANKARA - The Turkish city of Izmir has asked Paris's Louvre museum to return two statues of Greek gods Zeus and Apollo, a newspaper reported Monday. In a letter to the management of the French...

GENEVA - Two circulating beams on Monday produced the first particle collisions in the world's biggest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), three days after its restart, scientists...

MELBOURNE, William West - Bangladeshi conjoined twins Trishna and Krishna appeared Sunday to have beaten the odds with their miracle story of survival, both awaking from landmark separation surgery...