BEIRUT (AP) - Syria's main opposition bloc wants to consult its allies before deciding on joining a U.S.-Russia initiative to negotiate a peaceful transition in Syria, its leader said Monday. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - Talks over the potential use of water cannon for the first time on London's streets are taking place with the Metropolitan police, the Home Office confirmed on Monday. London's police force argue that water cannon would b... [Full Article]
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Michael Jackson's longtime makeup artist says she heard an executive for the promoter of the singer's planned comeback concerts insist that he rehearse. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
By Kim Dixon WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The political goal is the same as it was in the mid-1980s - seed grass-roots support for an overhaul of the U.S. tax code - but the approach launched Thursday relies on email, not snail mail. The chairmen of Congre... [Full Article]
By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Strong Chinese trade data and signs that Germany may escape a severe spring slowdown pushed world shares to five-year highs on Wednesday and boosted growth-sensitive currencies and metals. Wall Street, which has climb... [Full Article]
By John O'Callaghan SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The parents of Shane Todd, an American engineer found dead in Singapore last year, intend to prove at a coroner's inquiry that he was murdered over a project they say involved the illegal transfer o... [Full Article]
BEIRUT (AP) - An activist group says government forces have pushed into a strategic town south of Damascus on the highway leading to the border with Jordan. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
By Thomas Grove and Erika Solomon MOSCOW/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Russia and the United States have agreed to bury their differences over Syria and hold urgent international talks to find a settlement that can end the carnage of a civil war that is inflami... [Full Article]
Things just got much worse for two critically endangered tortoise species in Madagascar. Illegal poaching is "raging out of control" and pushing radiated and ploughshare tortoises to the brink of extinction, according to a statement from th... [Full Article]
MOSCOW (AP) - Two men in their early twenties lie face down in the snow, hands tied behind their backs, heads doused with dark red paint. A dozen young men, some wearing surgical masks, wreck a car with hammers and axes. One sets fire to a plastic ba... [Full Article]