US President Barack Obama has warned the Palestinian government of Mahmoud Abbas that 'there will be consequences' if he declines to open direct talks with...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The United Arab Emirates says it plans to block some messaging and web services on BlackBerry smart phones beginning...

– The Syrian-Saudi-Lebanese summit received considerable attention by Arab mass media, describing it as a historical summit and focusing on its closing statement.

- A $600 million sale of bonds by Egypt's state-owned National Bank of Egypt (NBE) has been fully covered, a source with knowledge of the...

filed a motion last week for reconsideration of a recent ruling by a US judge in which the bank was sanctioned for allegedly failing to...

Arab stock markets rallied this week, drawing momentum from global market gains, better world recovery outlook and stable oil prices, financial analysts said yesterday.They expected...

Aug 1, 2010 - 09:42 - WAM Abu Dhabi, August 1st, 2010 (WAM) -- Lebanon's future was at the centre of a very senior meeting...

The 37-year-old, who was born in Iran but is now a Canadian citizen, was sentenced to four years and three months in jail. Prosecutors had...

Noam Sobel, professor of neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, said his team was able to build a "sniff controller" by...

An Israeli air strike has killed a Hamas commander and rocket maker in the Gaza Strip, the group said. Issa Batran was killed by a...

US President Barack Obama has told Iran to immediately release three Americans who have been detained for a year after straying across the border while...

A 5.7-magnitude earthquake hit the north east of the country, injuring around 170 people, state radio said. The tremor hit the city of Torbat-e Heydariyeh,...

There are few 94-year-olds whose work remains as controversial as that of Bernard Lewis. The Stoke Newington-born academic, long resident in the US and currently...

Hadi Al-Amiri, a parliamentarian who heads the Badr Organization, the former armed wing of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council's (ISCI), said the United States was...

KHARTOUM: Sudan said on Saturday it would monitor travel by UN/African Union peacekeepers in Darfur — a day after the UN Security Council extended the...

JEDDAH: The soft launch of the Saher Traffic Monitoring System will start in Makkah, Madinah and Jeddah on Sunday to test the system before it...

BEIRUT: The ruler of Qatar on Saturday toured south Lebanese border towns that his energy-rich Gulf country helped rebuild after the 2006 Israeli bombardment, marking...

ABHA: A 30-year-old woman home science teacher enthralled some 700 women with a spectacular dance that fused traditional Arabic dance forms with more modern types...

ROME: Iraq is now among the world's top executioners for the first time since the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein, an Italian anti-death penalty group...

The blast took place on Saturday near the municipal offices in Rashid district just south of the Iraqi capital, as soldiers were responding to an...