LONDON- A food historian has claimed Scotland's famous delicacy haggis was invented by the English before being hijacked by Scottish nationalists as their own, reports said Sunday.
Historian...
KANO, Aminu Abubakar - Nigerian authorities swept dozens of bodies into mass graves Sunday in the grisly aftermath of last week's Islamist uprising that killed hundreds of people, officials and...
RAMALLAH - Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction will reaffirm its refusal to recognise Israel as a Jewish state at a major congress next week, according to a document obtained by AFP on...
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama hailed Saturday a key congressional committee's approval of a bill embracing his plan to overhaul the US healthcare system as a "historic consensus."
Democratic...
RABAT- Two Moroccan magazines were taken off news stands on Saturday after they published an opinion poll on the 10 years under the reign of King Mohammed VI, officials said.
TelQuel and Nichane,...
BANGKOK - Myanmar's junta-run state media warned Wednesday against making predictions of a guilty verdict in the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi, even as it suggested that the democracy leader had broken...
ROME - An Italian drugs safety watchdog approved late Thursday the sale of the abortion-inducing drug RU486 in this predominantly Roman Catholic country, the ANSA news agency reported.
The Italian...
WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama on Tuesday expressed rare frustration at the resistance he is facing in his efforts to overhaul the US healthcare system.
"Sometimes I get a little...
KUWAIT CITY - A Kuwaiti investment broker facing a US lawsuit for allegedly profiting from fake takeover bids was found dead on Sunday, a security source said.
"Hazem Khalid al-Braikan was found...
BAUCHI, Aminu Abubakar - Nigeria's security forces fought gun battles on Monday with radical Islamists who went on a deadly rampage torching churches and government buildings, residents said....
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