SYDNEY- A 97-year-old retired Australian dentist was to receive his masters degree in clinical science on Friday in what Southern Cross University said could make him the world's oldest new graduate....

ASHGABAT- The horse-mad leader of Turkmenistan on Sunday hosted his second presidential beauty contest for horses in the isolated Central Asian state. President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov awarded...

Private Channels television showed footage of hundreds of protesting students carrying placards. One of the placards read "we are suffering, no light (electricity), no water." The university,...

KIEV- Members of Ukrainian feminist group Femen on Tuesday barricaded themselves in a cathedral bell tower for a topless protest against a Church-backed bill that would ban abortions. The women...

"The bottom line is that dogs in the workplace can make a positive difference," said professor Randolph Barker of Virginia Commonwealth University's business school, who led the five-member research...

SANTIAGO, Cuba, Michael Langan- Pope Benedict XVI headed Monday to Cuba hoping to boost the Catholic Church's special dialogue with the Communist regime, as dissidents said more than 150 were...

KABUL- Afghan President Hamid Karzai called Saturday on tribal and religious leaders to encourage the education of girls, a right which was denied to them under Taliban rule.Afghanistan's leader,...

LONDON, Danny Kemp- Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, the spiritual leader of the world's Anglicans, said on Friday he will resign at the end of the year after a decade of turmoil over female...

WASHINGTON- Women "will have a place" in Libya after the fall of Moamer Kadhafi, interim Prime Minister Abdel Rahim al-Kib said Friday amid concerns of the role of Islamic sharia law in the...