WASHINGTON, Chris Lefkow- Will it be upgraded iPods? The Beatles finally coming to iTunes? A tablet computer? An appearance by Steve Jobs? Apple is holding an event for the media on Wednesday and...

DAKAR - The United Nations on Monday sharply increased its toll of the number of people affected by floods in West Africa, putting the number at more than 592,000 in no less than 10 countries. In...

BASEL - France is currently facing about 20,000 cases of swine flu every week, a figure much higher than official estimates, the region-by-region flu monitoring agency GROG said Monday. "On...

UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday expressed deep concern over a string of killings in south Sudan that have claimed dozens of lives, his spokeswoman said. Ban "is deeply...

PORT-GENTIL, Ousmane Niapa and Patrick Fort - Gabon's government threatened Sunday to impose emergency powers to quash unrest in its second city Port-Gentil after three people were killed in...

STOCKHOLM- Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos "regrets" that a Spanish newspaper on Saturday published an interview with a British historian who denies the Holocaust, a spokeswoman...

OSLO - A Norwegian navy mission returned home empty handed from a Barents Sea mission to find the missing plane used by legendary polar explorer Roald Amundsen 81 years ago, a participant said...

WASHINGTON - Astronauts from the US space shuttle Discovery ventured out of the International Space Station on Saturday for a third spacewalk that will be the last of their mission. NASA astronaut...

BIRMINGHAM- Police arrested more than 30 men Saturday after violence broke out at a protest against Islamic extremism in the central English city of Birmingham. Supporters of the English Defence...