The U.S. State Department has scolded Israel for only recognizing Jewish holy...

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has met lkeaders in Saudi Arabia and the UAE to garner support for increasing sanctions against...

The third Pan Arab Human Genetics Conference will begin here Saturday, WAM news agency...

A top media rights watchdog has listed Australia along with Iran and North Korea in a report on countries that pose a threat of internet...

A British Airways employee, who was allegedly planning to carry out a suicide attack after being placed in airline's strike-busting cabin crew, had offered his Al Qaeda chiefs to travel to Yemen and Pakistan to be trained, a British court was...

With official visits overlapping in Afghanistan, Iran's outspoken president and the US defence secretary have accused each other of interfering in local...

Yemen said on Friday it was holding a U.S. citizen suspected of being an al Qaeda member who killed a hospital guard last week, and a U.S. firm said the suspect had worked at nuclear reactors in New...

An Israeli flag decorates the right-wing Jewish settler complex of Beit Yonatan as it stands tall over the crowded Palestinian housing which typifies March 2, 2010 the East Jerusalem neighborhood of...

BAGHDAD: A cross-sectarian, secularist list headed by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi on Thursday alleged major fraud in Iraq's national election this week.Members of Allawi's Iraqiya list called a...

TEHRAN: The wife of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi called the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "illegitimate," the reformist Kaleme website reported Thursday.Supreme Leader Ayatollah...

JERUSALEM: Israel's military on Thursday indicted two of its soldiers for endangering the life of a Palestinian boy during Israel's three-week offensive in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip more than a year...

LONDON: British computer expert Peter Moore, held captive in Iraq for 2-1/2 years until his release in December, has said he was tortured and subjected to mock executions by a well-trained kidnap...

SANAA/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yemen said on Friday it was holding a U.S. citizen suspected of being an al Qaeda militant who killed a hospital guard last week, and a U.S. firm said the suspect had...

JERUSALEM // Israel sealed off the West Bank for 48 hours until midnight tonight amid fears of violence as tensions heightened over plans for new homes in East Jerusalem. The order from Ehud Barak,...

SAKHIR // It is perhaps not surprising that on the day Michael Schumacher officially returned to Formula One, German domination was evident. Yet while four of the six fastest times posted during free...

Several prominent detainees arrested in the wake of Iran's postelection unrest have been freed from prison. But Iranian authorities' motivation in freeing the prisoners remains...

WASHINGTON — A law enforcement official says the U.S. government knew about the New Jersey man charged in Yemen with being a member of al-Qaida, even before Yemeni officials arrested him. ...

An electoral worker carries a ballot box at a counting center in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 12, 2010. Partial tallies have only been released from only five of Iraq's 18 provinces, excluding...

March 12, 2010 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday delivered a stinging rebuke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his government's announcement this week of new Jewish housing...

FILE - This March 1, 2010, file photo shows Michael Jordan looking over a stat sheet in the first half of the Charlotte Bobcats' 89-84 loss to the Dallas Mavericks in an NBA basketball game in...

Before he was rounded up in a sweep of suspected al-Qaida terrorists in Yemen, Sharif Mobley was a laborer at five nuclear plant complexes in Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.Authorities are...

LONDON: Britain’s ambassador to China said on Friday that Beijing risks isolation if it fails to join international efforts to impose sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program. Speaking via...

WASHINGTON: The United States accused Thursday China and Iran of worsening human rights abuses as it raised the alarm about growing anti-Semitism worldwide and discrimination of Muslims in Europe. In...

SANTIAGO: Strong aftershocks and a tsunami alert rattled nerves in Chile Thursday, as rightwing billionaire Sebastian Pinera was sworn in as the new leader of the quake-hit nation. “We’re...

NEW YORK: After years of fighting in court, lawyers representing the city, construction companies and over 10,000 Ground Zero rescue-and-recovery workers have agreed to a settlement that could pay up...

LAHORE, Pakistan: A pair of suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other Friday, killing at least 39 people in this eastern city and wounding nearly 100,...

ANKARA: Turkey summoned the Swedish ambassador Friday to protest after the Swedish Parliament recognized the massacres of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide, only days after a similar vote by a...

DUBAI: Two pan-Arab news channels said on Friday that the Yemeni authorities had seized broadcasting equipment from their Sanaa bureau by force because of their coverage of the growing unrest in...

MOGADISHU, Somalia: Fighting erupted in Somalia’s capital for the third straight day Friday in some of the worst violence in nearly a year, as government-backed troops shelled the front lines...

BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki took a slender lead over his rivals on Friday, preliminary results from the country's general election showed, as opposition blocs alleged blatant fraud....

SANAA/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yemen said on Friday it was holding a U.S. citizen suspected of being an al Qaeda militant who killed a hospital guard last week, and a U.S. firm said the suspect had...

The State Department said Clinton spoke to Netanyahu by phone for 43 minutes to vent U.S. frustration with Tuesday's announcement that cast a pall over a visit...

Charlotte Bobcats , and commissioner David Stern expects the league's board of governors to approve the $275 million purchase by the end of next week. In an interview with The Associated Press on...

Charlotte Bobcats managing partner Michael Jordan, seen shouting at a referee during a November game against the Toronto Raptors, is poised to take over the...

BAGHDAD - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki took a slender lead over his rivals on Friday, preliminary results from the country's general election showed, as opposition blocs alleged blatant...

Iraqis count votes at the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) headquarters in Baghdad on March 12, 2010, following Iraq's second general elections since the US-led invasion of 2003. Prime...

March 12: A Palestinian prepares to throw stones at Israeli border police during clashes in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Ras al-Amud March 12, 2010. Israeli forces sealed off the West Bank and...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has sharply rebuked Israel over its recent decision to build new settlements in East Jerusalem.She told Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu by telephone that the move...

A human rights organisation in Egypt has accused the interior ministry of manipulating the legal system to target a blogger who exposed police brutality.The Arabic Network for Human Rights...