PARIS- Nearly half of serious cases of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children are closely tied to social factors such as single parenting and poor maternal education, reports a new...
CAIRO- A court in Egypt has ordered the Coptic church to allow its faithful to remarry, quashing an appeal by the head of the church, local media reported on Sunday.
"By law, a Christian can...
RIYADH- Saudi Arabia's interior ministry has moved to halt the increasingly popular practice of Muslims seeking burial in the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, a Saudi newspaper said Saturday.
A...
SEOUL- A South Korean couple who left their baby to starve while raising a "virtual child" on the Internet were given prison sentences Friday.
The 41-year-old husband and his wife, 25, were...
GAZA CITY- The Hamas rulers of Gaza on Tuesday said they had arrested a group of suspects over the torching of a UN children's summer camp, in which attackers also threatened the head of a UN...
MADRID- A British woman has confessed to suffocating to death her two young children in a hotel room using a plastic bag, a Spanish judge said Friday and ordered her held without bail.
Lianne...
SHARJAH- An appeal hearing in the United Arab Emirates for 17 Indians sentenced to death for killing a Pakistani was adjourned on Wednesday for lack of an interpreter.
A court of first instance...
LONDON- A woman was charged on Saturday with the attempted murder of a former British government minister who was stabbed while meeting constituents in London.
Stephen Timms, 54, who was a...
BAGHDAD, Sammy Ketz- Wearing an elegant pink headscarf, Marwa Abdel Karim serenades her fellow Baghdad University students with a heartfelt rendition of "Filled With Love," remarkable for the...
LOS ANGELES- Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has courted fresh controversy by signing a bill banning an ethnic studies program, just weeks after approving the state's tough new immigration law.
Brewer...
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