WASHINGTON- An American researcher who on Monday won this year's Nobel Prize for medicine has said her achievement illustrates the importance of "discoveries driven by pure curiosity."
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BEIJING- North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il Monday told Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao that Pyongyang was willing to return to six-party nuclear disarmament talks, Xinhua news agency said in a report from...
WASHINGTON- The United States, responding to protests from Sri Lanka over remarks by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said it had no recent evidence of women being raped while in Sri Lankan...
JERUSALEM, Joseph Krauss - Israeli police and Palestinian protesters on Sunday clashed near Al-Aqsa mosque compound, a flashpoint site in Jerusalem sacred to Muslims and Jews that saw similar unrest...
BUENOS AIRES - Thousands of fans bade a tearful farewell to iconic Latin American folk singer and activist Mercedes Sosa, who died Sunday at the age of 74.
Massive crowds jostled to have a chance...
PADANG, Presi Mandari - Whole villages in Indonesia's quake zone were found obliterated by landslides Saturday, as rescuers searched desperately for up to 4,000 people believed to be still trapped in...
CAP-HAITIEN- Former US president Bill Clinton, visiting Haiti in his capacity as a United Nations special envoy, wrapped up a two-day trip with a call for tourists to visit the Caribbean country....
TEGUCIGALPA, Noe Leiva and Maria Isabel Sanchez - Thirty-eight farmers imprisoned by the military-supported interim Honduran regime began a hunger strike Saturday demanding the reinstatement of...
PORT HARCOURT, Joel Olatunde Agoi - Three top Nigerian militant leaders in the volatile oil hub of the Niger Delta gave up their weapons along with thousands of fighters on Saturday under a...
LOS ANGELES - First Lady Michelle Obama will show children how to grow their own vegetables in a special episode to mark the 40th anniversary of US television's Sesame Street, it has been confirmed....