WASHINGTON - Google considered buying a newspaper but dropped the idea, the head of the Internet search giant said in an interview with the Financial Times published on Wednesday. Google chairman...

NEW YORK, Luis Torres de la Llosa- Scientists in New York unveiled Tuesday the skeleton of what they said could be the common ancestor to humans, apes and other primates. The tiny creature,...

PARIS - Canadian musician Gonzales broke the world record on Monday for the longest-ever solo concert after he succeeded in playing the piano for a grueling 27 hours 3 minutes and 44 seconds. The...

UNITED NATIONS - US ex-president Bill Clinton is to be named UN special envoy to Haiti, a UN official said Monday, confirming a report carried by The Miami Herald daily. The official, who spoke on...

FLORIANOPOLIS, Brigitte Hagemann - The tourism sector needs to be recognized as a major economic motor that deserves the same sort of attention as the manufacturing and finance industries, tourism...

MONTEVIDEO - Author and poet Mario Benedetti, one of the Spanish-speaking world's leading literary voices, died Sunday at his home in Uruguay's capital, family and friends said. He was 88. One of...

HOUSTON, Mark Carreau - Two US astronauts safely completed their mission's third grueling space walk Saturday after reviving a crippled camera on the Hubble telescope and equipping the orbiting...

MOSCOW- Norway won this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow on Sunday with the upbeat ballad "Fairy Tale" composed and sung by Alexander Rybak. The boyish 23-year-old charmed audiences with...

WASHINGTON- Extremist groups have made the Web their "prime tool" to spread hate and the number of online bigots on Facebook is growing faster than efforts to remove them, the Simon Wiesenthal Center...