WASHINGTON, Shaun Tandon - The United States ramped up pressure on China Wednesday to drop a new requirement for all computers to carry Internet filtering software, fearing it was a means for...

WASHINGTON- US President Barack Obama will meet Pope Benedict XVI for the first time at the Vatican on July 10, the White House said Wednesday. Obama, who favors a woman's right to abortion and...

DOHA - The French director of the Doha Centre for Media Freedom said Tuesday he quit Qatar with his team due to what he said was lack of freedom. "The centre has been suffocated. We no longer have...

NEW YORK, June 23, 2009 (AFP) - UN chief Ban Ki-moon and the mayor of New York on Tuesday announced plans to launch "Climate Week NYC" on the sidelines of a UN summit in September to galvanize public...

WASHINGTON - A space probe that scientists hope will provide new information about the moon ahead of future manned US moon missions entered lunar orbit on Tuesday, four and a half days after it was...

WASHINGTON, June 23, 2009 (AFP) - Obesity during early adulthood raises the chances that a person will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, according to a study released Tuesday. "This is the...

OTTAWA, - Government lawyers argued Tuesday that Canada has surely done enough for a young Canadian national held at the US naval facility in Guantanamo Bay as it appealed a court order to...

LOS ANGELES, Paula Bustamante - Astro Boy, the mythical Japanese cartoon character that has captivated generations of young people worldwide, will come out this year as an animated film by British...

ROME - Italy has advised against non-essential travel to Iran, in a message on a government website Monday, following similar advice issued earlier by Britain. "Because of the disorder that has...