ANTANANARIVO- Madagascar is offering free entry to tourists to bolster an industry devastated by the recent unrest in the Indian Ocean island state, a tourism official told AFP Friday. "Until...

WASHINGTON- The US government Friday unveiled guidelines for publicly-funded embryonic stem cell research limiting it to embryos developed in test tubes for would-be parents but never used. The...

WASHINGTON, Stephen Collinson- President Barack Obama Thursday blew the lid on harsh CIA terror interrogations approved by ex-president George W. Bush, including the use of insects, simulated...

WASHINGTON- YouTube has reached agreement with Sony Pictures and other Hollywood studios to show full-length movies on the video-sharing website, leading technology blogs reported on Thursday....

WASHINGTON, April 14, 2009 (AFP) - The Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup has been chosen to build the 500-million-dollar the first black history museum in the US capital, the Smithsonian Institution...

MADRID - US fast-food chain Burger King promised Wednesday to withdraw an ad in Spain and Britain featuring a wrestler wrapped in a Mexican flag, after Mexico's ambassador to Madrid slammed it as...

WASHINGTON - Larry Brilliant, the founding executive director of Google.org, the philanthropic arm of the Internet search giant, is leaving the company to head a venture backed by the Skoll...

VATICAN CITY- Pope Benedict XVI sought to assuage the grief of Italy's earthquake survivors during his Easter blessing on Sunday as Christians across the world celebrated the resurrection of Jesus...

LOS ANGELES- "Hannah Montana: The Movie," the film version of the popular Disney TV series, sang its way to the top of the North American box office in its opening weekend, preliminary figures showed...