KABUL, Ian Timberlake - Hamid Karzai will be in sworn in as Afghan president for a second term on Thursday, after the United States ramped up pressure on him to rid the war-torn country of its...

RIO DE JANEIRO - The second man to set foot on the moon, former US astronaut Buzz Aldrin, urged Brazil to start investing in manned space flights if it doesn't want to miss out on their huge economic...

JERUSALEM, Ron Bousso - Israel gave approval on Tuesday for the construction of hundreds of new housing units in annexed Arab east Jerusalem, drawing Western criticism as it drove another stake into...

WASHINGTON - A drug that failed to fight the blues could be the female answer to the little blue pill Viagra, the lead North American investigator analysing tests of the drug said Tuesday. Women...

MELBOURNE, William West - Australian doctors admitted high-risk surgery to separate Bangladeshi twins who are joined at the head was "very fiddly" as the operation ballooned past 24 hours on...

BRUSSELS- Belgium's national press agency Belga on Monday erroneously announced the death of the country's queen mother, after a mischievous posting on its new twitter-style service. On day one...

UNITED NATIONS- The UN Security Council on Friday called on Iraq's political parties to show "national unity" as the war-ravaged nation lurches with uncertainty toward January elections. It asked...

MADRID - An award-winning Western Sahara rights activist expelled to Spain's Canary Islands cannot go home as Moroccan authorities have taken her passport away, the Spanish foreign ministry said on...

RAMALLAH, Nasser Abu Bakr - The Palestinians said Sunday they plan to ask for UN recognition of their independence, amid mounting frustration over the stalled peace process as Israel warned against...