Stories Collection

  1. KATHMANDU (AFP) — Maoist insurgents said they had extended a unilateral ceasefi...
  2. VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (AFP) — Authorities in Russia's Far Eastern city of Khabaro...
  3. LONDON (AFP) — The dollar rose slightly against the euro but markets showed lit...
  4. DALLAS, United States (AFP) — Tony Parker scored 20 of his 30 points in the sec...
  5. WASHINGTON (AFP) — US authorities loosened restrictions imposed after the Septe...
  6. ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — Ethiopian authorities are testing hundreds of pigeons repor...
  7. BEIJING (AFP) — China is expected to issue new rules requiring the registration...
  8. BRUSSELS (AFP) — European justice ministers sealed a compromise deal on controv...
  9. DOHA (AFP) — The head of the Gulf Cooperation Council called on NATO to press f...
  10. ABIDJAN (AFP) — Opposition parties in Ivory Coast announced they would take no ...
  11. CALGARY, Canada (AFP) — The Calgary Flames, trying to end their National Hockey...
  12. WASHINGTON (AFP) — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice geared to address a cont...
  13. HONG KONG (AFP) — Asia's richest woman, flamboyant Hong Kong tycoon Nina Wang, ...
  14. SINGAPORE (AFP) — The body of an Australian drug runner hanged in Singapore has...
  15. OSAKA, Japan, Dec 3 (AFP) — Canada's Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon p...
  16. BERLIN (AFP) — Germany wants to cut back its net contribution to the European U...
  17. TAIPEI (AFP) — The chairman of Taiwan's ruling party has resigned after concedi...
  18. DHAKA (AFP) — Bangladesh police have said more than 200 suspects had been round...
  19. BERLIN (AFP) — The first deadline set by the kidnappers of a German woman in Ir...
  20. LONDON (AFP) — Highly-rated midfielder Michael Carrick scored the decisive goal...
  21. MOSCOW (AFP) — Russia's former richest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who has been ...
  22. HEBRON, West Bank (AFP) — Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas's security advisor cl...
  23. WASHINGTON (AFP) — A two-day meeting of finance ministers from the Group of Sev...
  24. ASTANA (AFP) — Oil-rich Kazakhstan's leader Nursultan Nazarbayev won a landslid...
  25. SEOUL (AFP) — Thousands of South Korean workers and farmers have taken to the s...
  26. COLOMBO (AFP) — Six soldiers were killed in a landmine blast in northern Sri La...
  27. LAS VEGAS, United States (AFP) — Jermain Taylor, who earned the middleweight wo...
  28. BRATISLAVA (AFP) — Even while basking in the reflected glory of Croatia's 3-2 D...
  29. CAIRO (AFP) — Cameroon striker Samuel Eto'o edged closer to a third consecutive...
  30. BAGHDAD (AFP) — On Saddun Street in central Baghdad, there is a pharmacist who ...
  31. BAGHDAD (AFP) — The first witness to testify in person at the trial of Saddam H...
  32. SHANGHAI (AFP) — China has vowed to carry out further reforms to the yuan, reit...
  33. NETANYA, Israel (AFP) — Five Israelis were killed and dozens wounded when a Pal...
  34. BANGKOK (AFP) — Thailand's revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest...
  35. MANCHESTER, England (AFP) — Ryan Giggs is confident that Manchester United's ex...
  36. NEW YORK (AFP) — The yen hit an all-time low against the euro and slumped to 32...
  37. LOS ANGELES (AFP) — "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" conjured up top North...
  38. VATICAN CITY (AFP) — Prince Albert of Monaco had a private audience with Pope B...
  39. NEW DELHI (AFP) — The chairman of Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, said th...
  40. LISBON (AFP) — Portuguese Football Federation chairman Gilberto Madail said tha...
  41. AMSTERDAM (AFP) — Fourteen men accused of running a radical Islamist terror net...
  42. BAGHDAD (AFP) — One of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's closest aides and a...
  43. BRUSSELS (AFP) — Eurozone finance ministers said that the ECB's recent decision...
  44. WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States urged China to quickly set up a time table...
  45. NEW YORK (AFP) — US television network ABC announced that two of its journalist...
  46. CLEVELAND, United States (AFP) — Cleveland's rising rookie wide receiver Braylo...
  47. WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States said Myanmar's new round of constitutional...
  48. SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — The fight to save a condemned African-American death row ...
  49. LONDON (AFP) — Reigning champions Liverpool and Chelsea may have already qualif...
  50. KARACHI (AFP) — Afghanistan, where the Taliban once shaved the heads of a visit...
  51. LONDON (AFP) — ITV, Britain's biggest commercial TV network, snapped up Friends...
  52. LONDON (AFP) — Oil prices weakened after solid gains overnight owing to a cold ...
  53. LONDON (AFP) — Britain's manufacturing output hit the lowest level for seven mo...
  54. LONDON (AFP) — David Cameron, 39, has been declared the new leader of Britain's...
  55. ABUJA (AFP) — The HIV/AIDS virus is destroying family life across Africa, inter...
  56. ONITSHA, Nigeria (AFP) — Riot police clashed violently with stone-throwing yout...
  57. WASHINGTON (AFP) — US President George W. Bush said that Saddam Hussein's trial...
  58. WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US Supreme Court examined whether the US government can ...
  59. GENEVA (AFP) — Syria demanded an agreement on humanitarian aid in the Israeli-o...
  60. WASHINGTON (AFP) — US President George W. Bush sharply assailed a leading oppos...
  61. MIAMI (AFP) — A US jury in Florida acquitted Arab-American Sami Al-Arian on ter...
  62. CAIRO (AFP) — Migratory pathways make an outbreak in the Middle East of H5N1 bi...
  63. MANILA (AFP) — Ozone-depleting refrigerants are to be banned in the Philippines...
  64. LONDON (AFP) — Oil prices fell, extending losses from the previous day made on ...
  65. KIEV (AFP) — Ukraine has lifted a ban on imports of poultry and derivatives fro...
  66. WASHINGTON (AFP) — A Bahraini detainee at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...
  67. KARACHI (AFP) — Pakistan called for fresh talks with the United Arab Emirates t...
  68. SYDNEY (AFP) — Former England international and Liverpool star Stan Collymore w...
  69. PARIS (AFP) — Lille coach Claude Puel has called on his goal-shy players to tur...
  70. WASHINGTON (AFP) — A knife-wielding man slashed at four people in a park near t...
  71. SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, unveiled W...
  72. WASHINGTON (AFP) — Insurgents in Iraq have stepped up the volume of roadside bo...
  73. AUSTIN, United States (AFP) — Tom Delay, a top Republican ally of US President ...
  74. NEW YORK (AFP) — Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig is willing to acc...
  75. LONDON (AFP) — British forces have thwarted attempts to carry out more terror a...
  76. HANOI, (AFP) — At least nine people were killed in Vietnam as typhoon Kai Tak a...
  77. TURIN, Italy (AFP) — Juventus' powers of recovery will be put to the test when ...
  78. GENEVA (AFP) — Swiss Re, the world's second-biggest reinsurance company, warned...
  79. HANOI (AFP) — Substitution treatment for drug addicts will be a key part of the...
  80. LONDON (AFP) — The dollar steadied against the euro but climbed against the yen...
  81. NEW YORK (AFP) — A portrait by the French impressionist painter Henri de Toulou...
  82. BERLIN (AFP) — Germany's two main political parties agreed to increase value-ad...
  83. PRAGUE (AFP) — Czech President Vaclav Klaus will nominate doctors' leader David...
  84. PRAGUE, Nov 2 (AFP) — Czechs tired of watching humans apeing around in reality ...
  85. MUNICH, Germany (AFP) — German champions Bayern Munich want to extend the contr...
  86. TOKYO (AFP) — Customers stopping to gaze at the store window may soon be less a...
  87. MUNICH, Germany (AFP) — Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge insists we...
  88. DUBAI (AFP) — Chemists across the conservative Middle East are stocking up on s...
  89. BREMEN, Germany (AFP) — Werder Bremen survived a sensational comeback to defeat...
  90. WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States defended its landmark nuclear deal with In...
  91. NEW YORK (AFP) — A US federal judge denied a retrial to an aide of Osama bin La...
  92. CARDIFF (AFP) — Wales captain Gareth Thomas has played down the Six Nations cha...
  93. LONDON (AFP) — British newspapers detected a "whiff of mortality" about Prime M...
  94. MACAU (AFP) — China put in another record-breaking performance in the East Asia...
  95. SANAA (AFP) — A senior member of a leading Yemeni opposition party has charged ...
  96. BEIJING, (AFP) — China announced the latest round of six-party talks on North K...
  97. FRANKFURT (AFP) — Commerzbank, the third-biggest listed bank in Germany, said i...
  98. BERLIN (AFP) — Germany's Social Democrats strained to present a united front af...
  99. FRANKFURT, Germany (AFP) — Germany manager Jurgen Klinsmann has welcomed inspir...
  100. MANCHESTER, England (AFP) — Manchester United fans were handed some badly-neede...
  101. JAKARTA (AFP) — Three Indonesian children related to a woman who possibly died ...
  102. BERLIN (AFP) — New Williams recruit Nico Rosberg admits his father, ex Formula ...
  103. PARIS (AFP) — Mediterranean countries from Tunisia to Turkey face a bleak envir...
  104. ROME (AFP) — Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi revealed in an newspaper ...
  105. LONDON (AFP) — Newcastle have set their sights on a fourth successive victory a...
  106. NEW YORK (AFP) — Oracle Corp. said that Gregory Maffei would step down as co-pr...
  107. LISBON (AFP) — US punk rock trio Green Day and British act Coldplay shared top ...
  108. MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (AFP) — US President George W. Bush arrived in this Ar...
  109. LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Irish actor Colin Farrell and US starlet Scarlett Johansson...
  110. BEIJING (AFP) — Large parts of Sichuan, a southwest Chinese province known as t...
  111. BEIJING (AFP) — China says the EU's 16-year-old arms embargo is having a negati...
  112. WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States called for the immediate release from dete...
  113. LONDON (AFP) — Milan Baros has admitted he is desperate to score against old cl...
  114. JOHANNESBURG (AFP) — South African prosecutors served corruption indictments on...
  115. BEIJING (AFP) — Beijing's pollution index hit its highest measurement level and...
  116. KARACHI (AFP) — At least 70 people are feared drowned after an overloaded motor...
  117. CAIRO (AFP) — As Muslims held a mass prayer at Cairo's Mustafa Mahmud mosque, t...
  118. KRAKOW, Poland (AFP) — A tribunal hearing testimony whether the late Pope John ...
  119. WASHINGTON (AFP) — Parents of the only US soldier listed as captured in Iraq vi...
  120. NEW DELHI (AFP) — A lack of hard evidence has not sidetracked Indian investigat...
  121. NEW YORK (AFP) — Claude Berrou has been awarded the 2005 Marconi Prize for deve...
  122. NAIROBI (AFP) — A luxury ship carrying at least 600 tourists from Europe narrow...
  123. MACAU (AFP) — North Korea stormed into the East Asian Games football final with...
  124. MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (AFP) — US President George W. Bush will welcome Yemen...
  125. MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (AFP) — An Americas summit the United States had hoped...
  126. BERLIN (AFP) — The German government has reportedly issued a warning that Irani...
  127. LONDON (AFP) — Gene Robinson, the world's first openly gay bishop, said that Po...
  128. CARDIFF, (AFP) — Gareth Thomas has insisted the All Blacks are not "invincible"...
  129. PARIS, (AFP) — Attempts to avert a pandemic that could claim tens of millions o...
  130. BRUSSELS, (AFP) — EU foreign ministers are set to tackle the tough task of draw...
  131. BEIJING, (AFP) — China has mobilised its armed forces and allocated emergency f...
  132. TEL AVIV (AFP) — An EU envoy held talks with Israeli and Palestinian officials ...
  133. LONDON (AFP) — So much cocaine is being used in London that traces of the white...
  134. BRASILIA (AFP) — US President George W. Bush met with his Brazilian counterpart...
  135. CAIRO (AFP) — Egyptians prepared to vote in key legislative polls that kick off...
  136. BRASILIA (AFP) — US President George W. Bush ramped up his efforts to curb Vene...
  137. ROME (AFP) — Juventus defeated Livorno 3-0 to maintain their two-point lead at ...
  138. VIENNA (AFP) — A European Union diplomat said an Iranian request to resume nucl...
  139. MUNICH, Germany, (AFP) — German champions Bayern Munich showed they are going t...
  140. MANCHESTER (AFP) — Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson hit back at the ...
  141. LONDON (AFP) — Petrofac, an energy-service provider based in Britain, said that...
  142. LONDON (AFP) — Chelsea defender William Gallas has said the Blues are on the ri...
  143. BANGKOK (AFP) — Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said his government woul...
  144. LOSAIL, Qatar (AFP) — Italian speedster Valentino Rossi kept his word by winnin...
  145. PARIS (AFP) — Title contenders Paris St Germain bounced back from the expulsion...
  146. LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Movie star and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger si...
  147. KHARTOUM (AFP) — The African Union Mission in Sudan has accused government forc...
  148. BALTIMORE, United States (AFP) — Promoter Don King is suing former world heavyw...
  149. RENO, United States (AFP) — Chris Byrd retained his International Boxing Federa...
  150. DETROIT (AFP) — Japanese automaker Nissan plans to challenge the dominance of S...
  151. LONDON (AFP) — Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson heaped praise on Sou...
  152. TOKYO (AFP) — Mariano Puerta of Argentina and Radek Stepanek of the Czech Repub...
  153. JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israel suspended an offensive against militants in the Gaza S...
  154. JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israeli President Moshe Katsav will meet new Pope Benedict XV...
  155. KIEV (AFP) — Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's only daughter Yevgenia ma...
  156. TRIPOLI (AFP) — Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates met Libyan leader Moame...
  157. AJACCIO (AFP) — Workers suspended a shipping strike that has stranded thousands...
  158. WASHINGTON (AFP) — US President George W. Bush's approval ratings remain low am...
  159. JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari night public...
  160. MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Jack McKeon, who led the Florida Marlins to a Worl...
  161. STOCKHOLM (AFP) — Two Australians won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for pioneeri...
  162. KUTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesian police were hunting the suspects who helped ...
  163. LONDON (AFP) — European stock markets rose as they started the new quarter on a...
  164. NEW YORK (AFP) — The dollar rallied strongly against other currencies after str...
  165. NEW DELHI (AFP) — US neurosurgeon Benjamin Carson, an expert on separating Siam...
  166. BEIJING (AFP) — China is to set up a new breeding base for a special species of...
  167. CAEN, France (AFP) — Former US secretary of state Colin Powell has picked up a ...
  168. LUXEMBOURG (AFP) — UN chief war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte said that Cro...
  169. LONDON (AFP) — Former England captain Lawrence Dallaglio will return to action ...
  170. BLANTYRE (AFP) — Malawi's opposition warned that the southern African country w...
  171. LONDON (AFP) — Russia has the energy resources to light up Europe, but first hu...
  172. NEW YORK (AFP) — Human Rights Watch said that Iraqi insurgents are committing w...
  173. NEW ORLEANS (AFP) — Louisiana's governor called on the US government to help pa...
  174. LISBON (AFP) — Europe needs to "wake up" and step up its fight against rising H...
  175. GENEVA (AFP) — Coal-fired power stations in Greece, Germany and Spain top a new...
  176. NAJAF, Iraq (AFP) — A British national has been arrested by Iraqi border guards...
  177. KALASIN, Thailand (AFP) — Thai forensic pathologist Porntip Rojanasunan, heroin...
  178. KOLKATA (AFP) — A 45-year-old accountant has become India's first single man to...
  179. PARIS (AFP) — France confirmed that striker David Trezeguet will miss the World...
  180. LONDON (AFP) — World oil prices moved lower as traders weighed up adequate crud...
  181. WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US Supreme Court will hear arguments for and against eut...
  182. WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US scientist who won the Nobel prize in physics along wi...
  183. MOSCOW (AFP) — Brazil and Russia have reached tentative agreement on sending a ...
  184. MANCHESTER, England (AFP) — England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson has been rocked b...
  185. MANAMA (AFP) — A US Navy sailor died after falling out of a helicopter during a...
  186. VANCOUVER, Canada (AFP) — Fuel cell companies worldwide saw a slight aggregate ...
  187. DETROIT, United States (AFP) — The Detroit Tigers hired Jim Leyland as manager,...
  188. LONDON (AFP) — Kieren Fallon, who stole the show at Longchamp on Hurricane Run,...
  189. LONDON (AFP) — Rio Ferdinand, facing competition from a fit Sol Campbell and Jo...
  190. BAGHDAD (AFP) — Iraq's parliament bowed to UN and US pressure by reversing chan...
  191. BAGHDAD (AFP) — Iraqi insurgents will increase their attacks in Baghdad ahead o...
  192. TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran's judiciary said it will use jury trials for press-related ...
  193. NARATHIWAT, Thailand (AFP) — Five Thai soldiers were gunned down in an ambush a...
  194. MANCHESTER, England (AFP) — Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard vowed that England...
  195. BERLIN (AFP) — VfB Stuttgart's Danish international striker Jon-Dahl Tomasson h...
  196. LONDON (AFP) — Most Scrabble players presented with a rack containing a tile ma...
  197. ZAGREB (AFP) — A border dispute between Croatia and Slovenia escalated after Lj...
  198. MOSCOW (AFP) — Russia's agriculture ministry said Wednesday that the deadly bir...
  199. TOKYO (AFP) — Japanese Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe will judge a new literary aw...