WASHINGTON - Joost, an online video portal which has failed to live up to the buzz surrounding its launch, announced a management shakeup and layoffs Tuesday and plans to reinvent itself as a...

MADRID- Spain and Uruguay reported their first deaths from swine flu, as Canada expressed fears that young people were particularly vulnerable to the virus. In Spain, a 20-year-Moroccan woman died...

WASHINGTON - US and European scientists were Tuesday bidding farewell to the tenacious solar probe Ulysses which has been recording data around the sun for more than 18 years, four times longer than...

CAPE TOWN- South Africa's health minister on Tuesday admitted serious challenges in public health, as the government came up with a revised wage offer to stop an illegal doctors strikes. Aaron...

NEW YORK - US envoy George Mitchell held Tuesday what an official called "good and constructive" talks with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak as Washington seeks to revive the ailing Middle East...

OSLO, June 29, 2009 (AFP) - A court in Oslo Monday sentenced a Norwegian man to two and a half years behind bars for his role in the theft of artist Edvard Munch's masterpiece "The Scream", the NTB...

WASHINGTON- Two National Institutes of Health (NIH) practitioners have questioned the wisdom and utility of treating terminally ill cancer patients with expensive treatments that only extend their...

LOS ANGELES- Michael Jackson's family looked Monday to put on an elaborate "celebration" of the King of Pop's life but said the funeral would await an investigation into his death. The Reverend Al...

LOS ANGELES, Rob Woollard - Michael Jackson's family won temporary custody of the star's children and applied for control of his estate Monday as the first shots were fired in the legal fight arising...