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Israel is to hold a snap election on March 17, the parliament's spokesman said Wednesday, following a crisis within Prime…

An Italian historian's theory that Mona Lisa might be a Chinese slave and Leonardo da Vinci's mother -- making the…

How do you turn around a young man who is determined to destroy the West? In the Danish city of…

Saudi authorities have blocked the website of a regional human rights group which reported the case of a woman who…

Syria's civil war has killed more than 200,000 people in less than four years, a monitoring group told AFP on…

Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels "agreed in principle" on a ceasefire in one separatist province and were working to conclude a…

Diabetes ages the mind about five years faster than normal, and those diagnosed in their 50s are far more likely…

Diamond and ruby-studded jewellery crafted by celebrated Italian master goldsmiths Mario and Gianmaria Buccellati and inspired by Renaissance great Benvenuto…

The World Bank said Tuesday that the fallout from the deadly Ebola pandemic will push Guinea and Sierra Leone into…

Lebanese forces detained a wife and son of Islamic State group chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi near the Syrian border 10…