WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her British counterpart David Miliband called Tuesday on Sri Lankans to stop fighting immediately and allow trapped civilians to escape the...

WASHINGTON- Popular US breakfast cereal Cheerios is a drug, at least if the claims made on the label by its manufacturer General Mills are anything to go by, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...

UNITED NATIONS - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday appealed here for international aid for the hundreds of thousands of civilians displaced by the fighting in northwest Pakistan....

CAPE CANAVERAL,Jean-Louis Santini- US astronauts blasted off Monday on a high-risk mission to service the Hubble telescope for the final time, prolonging the life of a tool which has revolutionized...

LONDON - Amnesty International welcomed the release Monday of US-born reporter Roxana Saberi in Iran, saying it was "delighted that justice has been served". But the London-based human rights...

WILLIAMSBURG - American Cristie Kerr seized the lead with a birdie at 15 and held on to beat South Korea's In-Kyung Kim by two strokes in the LPGA Michelob Ultra Open by two shots on Sunday. Kerr,...

WASHINGTON, Chris Lefkow - As US newspapers shrivel up and die, an unlikely figure is emerging as their potential savior: News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch. The much-villified Australian-born...

LUCERNE, Andre Lehmann - Is there a universal recipe for humour, or more simply, are there jokes that make not just a Finn but also a Portuguese laugh? Some 500 heads of European public television...

WASHINGTON - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari pledged Friday to mount an all-out war against Taliban extremists, pledging to kill the militants in a military offensive. "This is an offensive...