SYDNEY, Talek Harris - Australia summoned the Israeli ambassador on Thursday and delivered a stark warning on ties after three Australian passports were used by suspected Mossad assassins to murder a...

Sydney - Australian scientists said Monday they had discovered in an outback mountain range a reef that was under water 650 million years ago and could provide fresh insight into early life on earth....

Copenhagen - Greenland's ice cap, which covers more than 80 percent of the island, is melting faster than expected because of global warming, a Danish researcher said on Monday. The...

OTTAWA - Canada's best-selling polka singer Walter Ostanek is aghast that his category has been dropped by the US Recording Academy in a reshuffling of the Grammy Awards, he told local media Friday....

Alice Munro's stories bring her readers up against unmediated life, says Christopher Tayler. Christopher Tayler- In "Fiction", one of the 10 new stories collected in Too Much Happiness, a...

BAGHDAD- Former Iraqi prime minister Iyad Allawi on Tuesday defended his two-week tour of Arab states and denied it was linked to next month's general election in which he leads a secular coalition....

LONDON, Guy Jackson - Gordon Brown's top lieutenant charged Monday that a row over bullying allegations against the British premier was part of a pre-election plot as the opposition called for an...

HEBRON, Samih Chahine - Palestinians clashed with Israeli troops in the West Bank town of Hebron on Monday amid outrage over Israel's plan to restore two flashpoint Jewish holy sites in the occupied...

RIYADH - A Saudi student on Sunday blasted US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for skirting her question on Israel's nuclear arsenal during a "town hall" meeting at a Jeddah college. "I did not...