OSLO, Pierre-Henry Deshayes- Despite being officially illegal, the international trade in whale meat between hunting nations is quietly picking up again, say enviromental campaigners.
The issue...
SYDNEY, Neil Sands - An Australian stroke victim paralysed for more than 20 years has walked again thanks to anti-wrinkle drug botox, in a case hailed as extraordinary by his medical team.
Russell...
MOSCOW - The fate of a Chechen rebel leader's son, who was deported by Egypt on Friday, is unknown, his family and rights group Memorial said.
Maskhud Abdullaev, the son of (rebel leader) Supyan...
BRASILIA- Brazilian health authorities on Saturday started their annual polio vaccination program that this year will immunize 95 percent of the country's children under age five.
The...
ATHENS, Helene Colliopoulou - Greek President Carolos Papoulias on Saturday ramped up pressure on Britain to return priceless statues from antiquity taken over 200 years ago as the new Acropolis...
WASHINGTON, Michael Mathes - A New York Times reporter kidnapped last November by the Taliban and held in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan has escaped to freedom, the newspaper reported...
JOHANNESBURG, Justine Gerardy - A special summit of Southern African leaders continued late Saturday to seek an end to a lingering political crisis in Madagascar with a call for political rivals to...
SAN FRANCISCO- Intel has launched software that sniffs out questionable claims at websites.
A "Dispute Finder" crafted by Intel researchers in Berkeley, California, for Firefox web browsers alerts...
AMSTERDAM - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Dutch Queen Beatrix on Friday inaugurated the revamped museum in Amsterdam, a satellite of the Saint Petersburg-based original.
The president was...
TOKYO, Harumi Ozawa - Japan's lower house on Thursday voted to scrap a ban on child organ donations, paving the way for patients aged under 15 to receive life-saving transplants here for the first...
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