TBILISI (AFP) - A prince and a princess from Georgia's ancient Bagrationi dynasty were wed in a lavish ceremony here Sunday, bringing together two feuding strands of the royal house that once ruled...

People in the US state of Alabama probably don't know it but they have something in common with Iranians and Zimbabweans: the importance of religion in their daily lives. Eighty-two percent of...

UAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AFP) - French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy praised hospital treatment for HIV-infected women and children here Wednesday, as she marked her first trip as a goodwill...

BISSAU (AFP) - Who said no news is good news? The people of Guinea-Bissau, a nation of 1.6 million people in west Africa, have had no newspapers for more than seven weeks. "There is a paper crisis...

NEW YORK (AFP) - Hero pilot Chesley Sullenberger, who safely guided a passenger jet to a perfect splash-landing in the Hudson River last month, was to be awarded the symbolic keys to New York City on...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Women in the United States may soon, for the first time, hold more jobs than men, if the economic crisis continues to eliminate jobs in male-dominated industries, according to...

LONDON (AFP) - Britain's schools minister has admitted he could do better when it comes to spelling, after a newspaper found a string of basic errors on his website. But Jim Knight, who went to...

NEW YORK (AFP) - She doesn't have a streak of grey hair, her breasts remain unnaturally perky, and she has endless outfits -- but Barbie is feeling miserable ahead of her 50th birthday. Not only...

LONDON (AFP) - A British graduate student was left "reeling" after his university threw out a bag of lizard excrement he had spent seven years collecting in the rainforests of the Philippines, he...