JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Leading South African anti-apartheid activist Helen Suzman, who for decades served as a lone voice of parliamentary dissent against white minority rule, died Thursday at the...

BEIJING (AFP) - Paleontologists in east China have dug up what they believe is one of the world's largest group of dinosaur fossils including the remains of an enormous "platypus", state press said...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The crew of the doomed shuttle Columbia was violently spun around in the cabin as the spacecraft disintegrated on reentry, according to NASA's final report on the 2003 tragedy...

MADRID (AFP) - A car bomb exploded outside the headquarters of the Basque broadcasting network in the city of Bilbao Wednesday, minutes after the area was evacuated following a warning call in the...

SYDNEY (AFP) - American socialite Paris Hilton has declared herself a saviour who shops for the greater good in tight...

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel on Wednesday rejected world calls for a truce and vowed to push on with its deadly Gaza offensive, as warplanes pounded Hamas targets for a fifth day and the Islamists shot...

HONG KONG (AFP) - The world can look forward to peace and harmony in 2009, but Chinese soothsayers warned that the road to economic recovery will be long. The Year of the Rat, marked by...

GAZA CITY -Adel Zaanoun) - Israel bombed Gaza for a fourth day on Tuesday, warning the blitz that has killed at least 360 people could last for weeks, as Hamas fired back with deadly rockets...

LONDON (AFP) - Prince Edward has been in hot water with animal rights charities after using a stick to break up a dog fight. Edward, the third son and youngest child of Queen...