STRASBOURG, Yann Ollivier - Former Polish premier Jerzy Buzek was elected president Tuesday of the European Parliament, becoming the first deputy from the ex-communist east to preside over the...
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will hold talks in India over the weekend on an "enhanced strategic partnership" before traveling next week to Thailand for talks with southeast Asian...
TOKYO, Gilles Campion - Japan's parliament on Monday passed a law ending a ban on child organ donations, paving the way for patients aged under 15 to receive life-saving transplants.
Japan has...
PARIS, Dominique Schroeder - "Couture brought me happiness, they were the best years of my life," Madame Carven recalls with a smile at a celebration to mark her approaching 100th birthday.
Only a...
PARIS- Scientists in the United States said on Monday they could help explain why women infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) advance faster to AIDS than men.
One of the enigmas...
OAKLAND, Glenn Chapman - Popular Internet radio service Pandora on Monday confirmed it is getting millions of dollars in new funding in the wake of clinching a deal on music royalty rates....
WASHINGTON- A member of the first team to set foot on the moon, astronaut Buzz Aldrin is a staunch advocate of space exploration who once publicly punched a man who claimed the lunar landings were a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Jean-Louis Santini - With a positive weather forecast and no reports of technical problems, conditions looked good Sunday for NASA's fourth attempt to launch the space shuttle...
TEGUCIGALPA - The interim Honduran government Sunday lifted a two-week-old curfew imposed after soldiers ousted leftist President Manuel Zelaya from power, saying the goals of the measure had been...
DRESDEN - Thousands of people attended a service in Germany Saturday to remember a young Egyptian mother who was stabbed to death in a courtroom, allegedly by a man who had called her a "terrorist."...