Egyptian police have arrested a high school teacher who allegedly threw boiling water in a pupil's face, a security official said on Monday.
The 12-year-old boy was taken to a Cairo hospital with...
RAMALLAH (AFP) - The vast majority of Palestinian youth are depressed, but do not believe that violence is helpful in resolving the Middle East conflict, said a UN report released on Tuesday....
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US judge has agreed to drop murder charges against a woman accused of starving her one-year-old son to death if the little boy is resurrected, a lawyer for the accused said...
SAO PAULO (AFP) - To smuggle cellphones into prison, Brazilian inmates have turned to a much older form of communication: carrier pigeons.
Guards have intercepted two carrier pigeons carrying...
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Drug violence in Mexico has "gotten out of hand" and poses a serious threat to communities along the US-Mexico border, President Barack Obama said Sunday.
But Obama, in an...
MADRID, Pierre Ausseill - Tens of thousands of demonstrators crowded central Madrid on Sunday, waving banners and chanting slogans against government plans to liberalise the country's abortion laws....
MOSCOW (AFP) - A Russian gay rights group has decided to hold its annual gay pride parade on the day Moscow hosts the Eurovision Song Contest finals, even if it fails to secure an authorisation, a...
LONDON (AFP) - Britain's religious leaders urged the G20's heads of state Monday not to forget their commitments to the world's poor when they meet here this week for a summit dominated by the...
NEW DELHI, Yasmeen Mohiuddin - It's been a year since Kamla Devi last saw her son Manesh, whose disappearance at age seven put him among the more than 2,500 children who have vanished from the Indian...
FREDERICK, Erika Berenstein (AFP) - Patients at the Mission of Mercy free mobile medical clinic in the state of Maryland usually begin lining up before dawn just to get a shot at seeing the dentist...
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