The Ministry of Health on Tuesday said the Kingdom's death toll from the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is actually 282, or 92 more than the tally recorded as of June 2. According to the Ministry of Health's Command & Control Center, which was ...

US State Department spokesperson Marie Harf has said Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan's accusation that Ivan Watson, CNN's correspondent in Turkey, is an undercover "agent" in the country to stir up trouble is "ridiculous" and that CNN is dedicated to ...

Chinese paramilitary police salute each other as they stand guard beneath a portrait of the late leader Mao Tse-tung in Tiananmen Square on Wednesday. Chinese paramilitary police salute each other as they stand guard beneath a portrait of the late leader ...

The agent of Kevin Strootman says Louis van Gaal is interested in the Roma midfielder, though there has been no official approach from Manchester United and the Italian capital club will resist any sale. The new United boss included the 24-year-old is his ...

Using cells from a relative of the famous tortured artist, plus a 3D printer, the ear lost by the artist can "hear" once again. by Eric Mack · @ericcmack; June 4, 2014 8:21 AM PDT. comments. 0. facebook. twitter. linkedin. googleplus. more. more +. email. tumblr.

Cristiano Ronaldo may have been a distant second in a recent study's rankings of soccer's most valuable players, but news that he is nursing not one but two injuries a little over a week before the World Cup begins is a sobering prospect for Portugal. Ronaldo ...

HONG KONG (AP) — Large numbers of people in Hong Kong have joined a candlelight vigil in a downtown park to commemorate the 25th anniversary of China's bloody military suppression of protests on Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Participants held ...

According to the Mirror, Louis van Gaal believes Holland could have David Moyes to thank for turning Robin van Persie back into their World Cup lethal weapon. The Netherlands Head Coach believes Van Persie is itching to get back to his best in Brazil after ...

NASA's Hubble space telescope has unveiled its most colorful window into the universe yet, a glimpse of some 10,000 galaxies spread across space. Some of those universes date to the era of the first galaxies. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) image ...

Russia was supposed to host the annual G8 summit in Sochi, but G7 leaders agreed to exclude President Vladimir Putin and hold smaller G7 format in Brussels, following Russia's absorption of Crimea. Photo: Bloomberg. Berlin: German Chancellor Angela ...

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel is signaling that agreeing on a new head of the European Union's executive will be a lengthy process and warns it would be negligent to freeze out Britain. Merkel backs former Luxembourg leader ...

Ukrainian soldiers near Sloviansk Ukrainian marines fire automatic grenade launcher at Ukraine army checkpoint near Sloviansk, Ukraine on May 31, 2014. Petr Shelomovskiy—Demotix/Corbis. But the leader of the separatist movement in eastern ...

Helsinki — Finnish police have arrested a 35-year-old woman on suspicion of manslaughter after finding five dead babies in an apartment building, Detective Superintendent Seppo Leinonen said Wednesday. Officers found the bodies in “badly smelly ...

Dr. Can Erimtan is an independent scholar residing in Ä°stanbul, with a wide interest in the politics, history and culture of the Balkans and the Greater Middle East. He tweets at @theerimtanangle. Get short URL. Published time: June 04, 2014 14:01. Riot police ...

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead an official at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the central Libyan city of Sirte on Wednesday, ICRC and local officials said. Libyan television stations said the victim was a Swiss national who ran the ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have captured the most comprehensive picture ever assembled of the evolving Universe – and one of the most colourful. The study is called the Ultraviolet Coverage of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UVUDF) ...

(Newser) – Using thermal cameras, researchers in Australia uncovered the science behind a habit that seems, well, cute: Koala bears hug trees to cool themselves. It turns out that tree trunks can be up to 12 degrees cooler than the air, and with Australia's ...

MOSCOW – President Obama hasn't spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin in weeks, despite increasing tensions over Ukraine. But according to Putin, that's not his decision. “This is his choice, I am prepared for dialogue,” he told French journalists in an ...

Chinese paramilitary police march past a portrait of Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, China. (File, AP). Multimedia · User Galleries · News in Pictures Send us your pictures · Send us your stories ...

Donetsk: Government forces pressed on with an offensive in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, claiming they had inflicted heavy losses on separatist fighters, though this was denied by the rebels. br> A spokesman for Kiev's "anti-terrorist operation" said more ...