CAIRO - Egypt has decided to advance the election of a new president, giving in to the demands of increasingly violent protesters and raising hopes of a civilian government taking over the task of...

WASHINGTON - Amid an escalated tension threatening a nuclear conflict between the two nations, US President Barack Obama has said he did not believe Israel had decided on an attack on Iran to disrupt...

MOSCOW- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has stressed need for Russia to adopt new democratic mechanisms to move forward and to be able to react swiftly to the interests and desires of large groups in...

DAMASCUS - The West voiced its ire over Russia and China's veto of the UN Security Council resolution on Syria even as more clashes and deaths were reported in the violence-wracked country.

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LONDON - Heavy snowfall and intense cold this winter, one of the most severe in decades, has taken its toll across Europe, with many rural areas badly affected and several deaths reported.

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NEW YORK - Citigroup's Chinese subsidiary has been granted permission to offer its credit cards in China, becoming the first US based bank and the second foreign bank to receive the nod.

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BRISTOL - Hundreds of traders and business establishments have signed up for Bristol's own currency to be launched May 21, with the backing of the Bristol Credit Union, a bank run as a...

NEW YORK - The IMF has warned of lower growth in China in view of the economic slump in Europe, and cut its forecast for the world's second largest economy this year to 8.25 per cent from 9 per cent...

ATHENS - Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos has said he would continue intense talks with his coalition partners on austerity measures for a 130 billion-euro EU bailout plan second for...

BEIJING - China's Monday asked its airlines not to pay a charge on carbon emissions imposed by the European Union (EU).

The authorities also asked the airlines not to hike freight or add other...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and chief of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Hamas politbureau Khalid Mashaal signed here Monday the Doha Declaration of the Palestinian reconciliation.

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Al-Qaeda is trying to recruit women for carrying out suicide bombings in Britain, parliament members have warned in a report.

The terrorist group is using extremist websites to radicalise the...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas not to abandon talks with Israel. The appeal comes after Abbas and his Fatah movement signed a deal on...

The Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos says talks with the country's international lenders on a new bailout package are tough and will continue. "Unfortunately I must say that...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon "strongly condemns" the mounting death toll, says Syrian violence "unacceptable before humanity," erodes the legitimacy of Damascus...

After talks ended without progress Monday night, Histadrut labor federation Chairman Ofer Eini will meet with Treasury officials at noon on Tuesday to try and avoid a strike over the status of...

WASHINGTON - Longtime US Mideast envoy Dennis Ross said Monday he did not believe the time was ripe for a permanent deal between Israelis and Palestinians and suggested regarding the region now...

Calling a series of overtly sexy Purim costumes that appear in a recently distributed catalogue for children "scandalous," World International Zionist Organization (WIZO) chairwoman Gila...

The ability to hear has been returned to Meir Turgeman, the most veteran resident of Sderot, who said Monday that thanks to the operation he underwent at Kaplan Medical Center, he will for the...

The Scottish capital appears to be the worse culprit, with much of its skyline coloured yellow in a series of images released as part of a British Gas initiative to cut power use by small and...

One day, a new fabric appeared on the scene. PVC was shiny, waterproof and unlike anything I’d ever seen before. As well as using it for batwing tunics, trench coats, sou’westers and...

The right-wing extremist who has admitted killing 77 people in Norway told a court yesterday that he deserved a medal of honour for the bloodshed, and demanded to be set free. Anders Behring Breivik...

A new book by the exorcist of Rome tells the strange tale of how two ‘possessed’ men were brought to St Peter’s Square in May 2009 to be...

Dr Rowan Williams said that condoning assisted suicide would undermine the sanctity of life - and he compared its effects to the legalisation of abortion a generation...

Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond has outlined the referendum consultation, but credit agencies have warned the country may not be granted triple A...

Devoted: Ruth Caven gave up her staff job as a glossy magazine journalism to go freelance and look after her nine-month-old black cocker spaniel puppy,...

Language lecturer Keri Opai claimed that New Zealand's native indigenous Maori were suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder following the 'holocaust' of British...

Last year, the Parliamentary Health Select Committee described the GMC in a highly critical report as ‘overly lenient’ to doctors — while just a few months ago, the chair of the...

There are endless examples of Lottery winners who have turned their backs on their old neighbourhoods, only to descend into lonely, mink-lined...

This paper warmly welcomes the decision by Network Rail’s top six executives to forgo their bonuses this year and allocate the money instead to improving safety at level...

7.45am BBC Radio 4 Thought For The Day. In this, the bicentenary of Dickens’ birth, the Rt Rev Peter Torkiss, Bishop of Yoxford, reflects on the role of the civil partnership in Dickens’...

Mild excitement: Sir Bob Kerslake, new head of the Civil Service, was to make his first public appearance. Let us not oversell the proposition. Few turned up to see him give evidence to the Public...

With 172 days before the start of the tournament, financial executive David Gilliver has paid homage to the eagerly anticipated games with these incredible Olympic...

It will be criticised because she played on 'mad cow' disease - CJD - and also Aspergers, both very real and tragic conditions, but anyone with a brain should understand. It really was VERY...

Such is the farcical state of affairs we have reached with the case of Abu Qatada – otherwise known as Osama bin Laden’s spiritual ambassador in Europe - who judges here and abroad have...

But back to Greece, where politicians are conscious that their electorate is getting to the end of its tether about the prospect of more austerity. At least one is openly talking about the threat of...

A blacksmith is flinging molten iron against a wall in Nuanquan, in the Hebei province of China, as part of the Lantern Festival which marks the end of the Lunar New...

Mr Ormrod said: 'I was lying naked and dying in the desert. I just thought I can’t live like this. I turned to the corporal and shouted: "Stick a bullet through my...

Samuel Sipepa Nkomo told a Zimbabwean parliamentary committee that terrified workers are refusing to return to the sites, near the towns of Gokwe and...

The woman - with shoulder-length black hair and a thick Cockney accent - then asks 'where do you come from? F****** like, f****** all over the...

The sculptures, which measure an incredible 30ft high, each took three weeks to build using a scaffolding spanner and a further six months to...

Applicants from fee-paying schools with top grades were around 25 per cent more likely to get into the world-famous seat of learning than academic candidates from...

However using a keen eye and a long exposure, one photographer has managed to capture the startling speed and motion of the stars as they blaze their trails across the...

At risk: The 18th century Church of Thomas, Romney Marsh, Kent, is in one of the beauty spots campaigners say are under threat from proposed changes to the planning...

WASHINGTON: The United States on Monday lifted one of its many sanctions against Myanmar in recognition of recent positive moves toward political reform in the country after decades of direct...

GOLDEN, Colorado: Mitt Romney hopes for another big caucus win in Colorado Tuesday, as his well-oiled campaign machine works to cement his position as the Republican US presidential front...

MONTREAL: Eleven people were killed Monday when two vehicles collided on a highway in Canada's Ontario province, police were quoted as saying by local media.A passenger van with 13 people on...

LONDON: The British-born wife of Syria's president has spoken in support of her husband for the first time since the 11-month uprising against his regime began, a British newspaper reported...

CHICAGO: A Chicago taxi driver pleaded guilty Monday to charges linked to a scheme to funnel money to a Pakistani terror group with links to Al-Qaeda, the US Justice Department said.Raja Lahrasib...

Iran's semiofficial Mehr news agency reported yesterday that they had produced content and reported to the BBC. It said they facilitated training and hiring of some Iranian journalists and...