Stories Collection

  1. MANCHESTER, England (AFP) — Joe Calzaghe looked ahead to a lucrative pay-day ag...
  2. WARSAW (AFP) — Poland has its first case of H5N1, the most virulent strain of b...
  3. BEIJING (AFP) — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has called for measures over the nex...
  4. GENEVA (AFP) — Swiss authorities have said that they had discovered four new ca...
  5. AMSTERDAM (AFP) — The former management of Dutch retail giant Ahold will appear...
  6. TRIPOLI, Libya (AFP) — Libya named a new prime minister, Baghdadi Mahmudi, as p...
  7. PARIS (AFP) — Paris St Germain were held to a drab scoreless draw by arch rival...
  8. DHAKA (AFP) — At least four people were killed and more than 100 injured as a t...
  9. KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — A Malaysian state has recorded a sharp increase in suspect...
  10. SINGAPORE (AFP) — Asia's premier football competition, the AFC Champions League...
  11. WASHINGTON (AFP) — President George W. Bush, no stranger to a political scrap, ...
  12. WARSAW (AFP) — A Polish laboratory has confirmed that two swans found dead in t...
  13. KUWAIT CITY (AFP) — Kuwait's parliament passed a new press law banning the impr...
  14. COTONOU(AFP) — The impoverished west African nation of Benin was counting votes...
  15. VIENNA (AFP) — Austrian officials confirmed the H5N1 bird flu was found in cats...
  16. LONDON (AFP) — European stock markets rose strongly as news of a takeover of Be...
  17. SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — Owen Chamberlain, who shared a Nobel Prize in Physics for...
  18. HOLLYWOOD (AFP) — Not only did Reese Witherspoon and Rachel Weisz win Oscars fo...
  19. BRUSSELS (AFP) — The European Union could agree to lift a ban on British beef t...
  20. BEIJING (AFP) — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's plan to improve health care aims t...
  21. WASHINGTON (AFP) — US President George W. Bush asked Congress to grant him the ...
  22. BRUSSELS (AFP) — Mittal Steel chief executive Lakshmi Mittal voiced confidence ...
  23. COLOGNE, Germany (AFP) — Struggling German side FC Cologne claim Spanish giants...
  24. LONDON (AFP) — The euro fell against the dollar in the wake of weak eurozone ma...
  25. FRANKFURT, Germany (AFP) — Time is running out for football fans to get their h...
  26. WASHINGTON (AFP) — US President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir P...
  27. NEW YORK (AFP) — Kobe Bryant scored 40 points as the Los Angeles Lakers pounded...
  28. SAINT PETERSBURG (AFP) — Russia's third richest man, Viktor Vekselberg, is to p...
  29. LISBON (AFP) — Benfica's Angolan international Pedro Mantorras said he is quitt...
  30. GLASGOW (AFP) — A last gasp Shaun Maloney goal allowed Celtic to clinch a scarc...
  31. ROME (AFP) — Serie A leaders Juventus were knocked out of the Italian Cup despi...
  32. SEOUL (AFP) — South Korean shipbuilders swept nearly 40 percent of global order...
  33. HONG KONG (AFP) — Suspicions that China is not fully declaring data on bird flu...
  34. DUBAI (AFP) — Golf's "Quiet Man" Retief Goosen has been quieter than usual over...
  35. ROME (AFP) — The late Pope John Paul II, plagued by ill-health in his final yea...
  36. SYDNEY (AFP) — Long-time Queensland Reds coach John Connolly has been appointed...
  37. WASHINGTON (AFP) — Patients suffering from severe lupus have experienced improv...
  38. KARACHI (AFP) — Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer was all praise for his bowlers, sayi...
  39. CAIRO (AFP) — Cameroon have a lot more to worry about than just Ivory Coast's s...
  40. ATHENS (AFP) — Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis and other members of the ...
  41. LONDON (AFP) — The Football Association (FA) has appointed a three-man panel to...
  42. ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — Ethiopia and Eritrea traded new charges over their increasi...
  43. WASHINGTON (AFP) — America's truckers, those fabled tough guy road warriors, wa...
  44. ISTANBUL (AFP) — UEFA's Turkish vice-president Senes Erzik insisted that he was...
  45. CHICAGO (AFP) — New shares of United Airlines plunged on their first day of tra...
  46. STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — Swedish superstar Markus Naslund will not take part i...
  47. WASHINGTON (AFP) — Lawyers for indicted ex-White House aide I. Lewis 'Scooter' ...
  48. SEOUL (AFP) — South Korea has said a free trade agreement with the United State...
  49. BANGKOK (AFP) — Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has vowed to keep fighti...
  50. SEOUL (AFP) — South and North Korea are to resume high-level military talks by ...
  51. MANCHESTER, England (AFP) — Sir Alex Ferguson insists that he never thought abo...
  52. LONDON (AFP) — The dollar rose against major rivals before publication of month...
  53. LUXEMBOURG (AFP) — Mittal Steel is to close its only majority-owned steel facto...
  54. BESSANS, France (AFP) — French biathlete Raphael Poiree, a four-time world cham...
  55. NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Kenenisa Bekele, the Olympic and world 10,000m ...
  56. BANGKOK (AFP) — Thailand's technology minister has resigned late, a senior aide...
  57. LONDON (AFP) — The number of British households declaring bankruptcy because of...
  58. PORT SAID (AFP) — Nigeria savoured victory with a taste of revenge when they be...
  59. LONDON (AFP) — The Arabic television station Al-Jazeera has reportedly asked Br...
  60. LONDON (AFP) — Portugal coach Luiz Felipe Scolari, who guided Brazil to their f...
  61. KABUL (AFP) — More than 170 Taliban and other Islamist fighters have surrendere...
  62. QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) — At least 12 people have been killed and 19 injured whe...
  63. WASHINGTON (AFP) — When President George W. Bush was asked at a recent public f...
  64. CAIRO (AFP) — Senegal may have struggled to qualify for the African Nations Cup...
  65. JERUSALEM (AFP) — Several thousand Jewish settlers and far right-wing Israelis ...
  66. SAN JOSE (AFP) — Voters in Costa Rica went to the polls to cast ballots in a pr...
  67. PITCHBALA, Pakistan (AFP) — Spring is around the corner for millions of Pakista...
  68. GENEVA (AFP) — The Swiss-based biotechnology and pharmaceuticals company Serono...
  69. LONDON (AFP) — Sol Campbell has returned to training with his Arsenal team-mate...
  70. LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Rock 'n' roll stars, rap singers and other legends of moder...
  71. BERLIN (AFP) — US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the United States does...
  72. PARIS (AFP) — France and the United States are to join forces to detect early o...
  73. BEIJING (AFP) — The income gap between rich and poor in China's cities has reac...
  74. NEW DELHI (AFP) — India's Supreme Court kicked out a petition seeking an end to...
  75. LONDON (AFP) — Wales striker John Hartson announced his retirement from interna...
  76. SANAA (AFP) — Fifteen rebels of the Zaidi minority in northern Yemen and five a...
  77. WASHINGTON (AFP) — Foreign aid was a big winner in the White House budget, with...
  78. WASHINGTON (AFP) — US President George W. Bush invited Kuwait's new Emir Sheikh...
  79. SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Yahoo and America Online will offer "certi...
  80. LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A new study of nearly 12,000 twins shows tha...
  81. KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — Chinese trailblazer Zhang Lian-wei has called on the count...
  82. LONDON (AFP) — Birmingham striker Emile Heskey has admitted a Football Associat...
  83. LONDON (AFP) — Sunderland manager Mick McCarthy and his Middlesbourgh counterpa...
  84. TAIPEI (AFP) — Taiwan's defense ministry said it needs more US-made Patriot ant...
  85. ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — The child malnutrition rate in drought-hit areas of eastern...
  86. TALLINN (AFP) — The death toll among seabirds contaminated by an oil slick off ...
  87. MAPUTO (AFP) — More than 1,500 cases of cholera have been recorded in flood-str...
  88. WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States said it was cancelling the entire bilatera...
  89. CAPE TOWN (AFP) — South Africa will host the 2010 World Cup at 10 venues, deput...
  90. PARIS (AFP) — Monaco, already smarting after being knocked out of the French Cu...
  91. SYDNEY (AFP) — Australia's central bank left its key interest rate unchanged at...
  92. KATHMANDU (AFP) — Maoist rebels ended a nationwide general strike they had call...
  93. NAIROBI (AFP) — The United Nations and Kenya appealed for more than 230 million...
  94. MADRID (AFP) — Santander Central Hispano (SCH), the biggest eurozone bank, post...
  95. BEIJING (AFP) — China's love for mobile text messaging was at its peak during t...
  96. FRANKFURT (AFP) — Germany looks set to retain its title as champion exporter of...
  97. LONDON (AFP) — British rock star Pete Doherty -- the former boyfriend of superm...
  98. NEW YORK (AFP) — The tour manager for the heavy metal band Great White has plea...
  99. NEW YORK (AFP) — Mick Jagger is under no censor's thumb, the Rolling Stones sai...
  100. LONDON (AFP) — An exotic Chinese crab which preys on native British species is ...
  101. WASHINGTON (AFP) — The conservative daily Washington Times criticized the Bush ...
  102. NEW YORK (AFP) — Hundreds of thousands of revellers rang in the New Year in New...
  103. CARDIFF (AFP) — Wales head coach Mike Ruddock has called on Neath-Swansea Ospre...
  104. RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) — Hundreds of masked gunmen joined a rally of some 2,...
  105. BEIJING (AFP) — Chinese President Hu Jintao has said in a New Year's Day messag...
  106. EDINBURGH (AFP) — Two brilliantly executed free kicks by Japanese star Shunsuke...
  107. KAMPALA (AFP) — Detained Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye is to stand tr...
  108. MANILA (AFP) — Squatters have started colonizing the world-famous Banaue rice t...
  109. FOXBORO, United States (AFP) — New England's Doug Flutie swiped a page from the...
  110. SAN ANTONIO, United States (AFP) — American football's New Orleans Saints are s...
  111. BLACKBURN, England (AFP) — Blackburn moved up to a season-high eighth place in ...
  112. SYDNEY (AFP) — A major earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale hit the Fi...
  113. SEOUL (AFP) — Stalinist North Korea has reaffirmed it would not resume six-nati...
  114. BAD REICHENHALL, Germany (AFP) — Rescue workers pulled three more bodies out of...
  115. WASHINGTON (AFP) — Jailed former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein told two of his ...
  116. GAZA CITY (AFP) — The radical Islamist movement Hamas launched its first-ever P...
  117. LONDON (AFP) — European stock markets climbed in early dealing, helped by soari...
  118. KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — The United States embassy in the Malaysian capital remaine...
  119. JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israeli police stopped two leading candidates from canvassing...
  120. MADRID (AFP) — Football legend Alfredo Di Stefano has left intensive care at th...
  121. LAGOS (AFP) — Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell said it had exported its first shipme...
  122. PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (AFP) — FIFA Vice-President Jack Warner lashed out at i...
  123. FRANKFURT (AFP) — The world's leading chemical firm, BASF of Germany, said it w...
  124. CHICAGO (AFP) — Bob Weiss was fired as coach of the National Basketball Associa...
  125. WASHINGTON (AFP) — Washington Redskins defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, co...
  126. JAKARTA (AFP) — At least three people were killed when a landslide triggered by...
  127. LOS ANGELES (AFP) — A record number of nearly 25 million tourists visited Los A...
  128. SYDNEY (AFP) — Last year was the hottest on record in Australia, official figur...
  129. NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — A popular Indian yoga guru whose classes attract hundr...
  130. SINGAPORE (AFP) — Defending champions Japan were pitted with fellow World Cup c...
  131. MOSCOW (AFP) — Alexei Miller, head of the world's largest gas company Gazprom a...
  132. THE HAGUE (AFP) — Dutch Queen Beatrix is to become a grandmother again this yea...
  133. WASHINGTON (AFP) — US President George W. Bush will donate to charity money tha...
  134. ISELIN, United States (AFP) — Shares in the US company that pioneered the auto ...
  135. WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US journal Science said all co-authors of an article in ...
  136. WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States welcomed settlement of the natural gas dis...
  137. PARIS (AFP) — An international team of astronomers says the most distant moon i...
  138. WASHINGTON (AFP) — US business leaders lashed out at legislation that would pen...
  139. WASHINGTON (AFP) — US First Lady Laura Bush and US Secretary of State Condoleez...
  140. LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Hollywood is planning a new sequel to adventure flick "Ocea...
  141. MADRID (AFP) — Barcelona sharpshooter Samuel Eto'o will join up with Cameroon f...
  142. LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Teenage Hollywood starlet Lindsay Lohan, who was rushed to ...
  143. ORCHARD PARK, United States (AFP) — The Buffalo Bills sacked Tom Donahoe as pre...
  144. JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is fighting for his life ...
  145. DETROIT, United States (AFP) — America's love of trucks and SUVs waned in 2005,...
  146. LONDON (AFP) — Britain's Prince William has shared his first public kiss with g...
  147. HONG KONG (AFP) — Not so long ago, sports fans were talking up the 'Serena Slam...
  148. BAGHDAD (AFP) — At least 120 people, including five US soldiers, were killed in...
  149. BEIRUT (AFP) — British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said he was praying for a m...
  150. HALBERSTADT, Germany (AFP) — A new chord was scheduled to sound in the world's ...
  151. LONDON (AFP) — Former England striker Chris Sutton has returned to the Premiers...
  152. SIJERUK, Indonesia (AFP) — Rescuers called off the search for up to 200 people ...
  153. OSLO (AFP) — Italian energy group Eni has discovered major oil and gas deposits...
  154. SEATTLE (AFP) — US aviation giant Boeing Co. said it received a record 1,002 ne...
  155. NAIROBI (AFP) — Kenyan wildlife authorities have sent reinforcements to control...
  156. ZOUERAT, Mauritania (AFP) — France's Thierry Magnaldi in a Schlesser-Ford won t...
  157. DOHA (AFP) — Roger Federer's preparation for an attempt at recapturing the Aust...
  158. LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Sixteen-year-old Freddy Adu was among 28 players named to t...
  159. ZAGREB (AFP) — Austria's Marlies Schild won the women's World Cup slalom race a...
  160. NEW YORK (AFP) — Jim Mora's phone bill will be a little higher than expected, a...
  161. HONG KONG (AFP) — Hong Kong movie actor Tony Leung Ka-fai has been handed a sus...
  162. MARIB, Yemen (AFP) — Five Italians kidnapped by Yemeni tribesmen were released ...
  163. OTTAWA (AFP) — With two weeks left in Canada's election campaign, Prime Ministe...
  164. HONG KONG (AFP) — World number one Lindsay Davenport blitzed Venus Williams to ...
  165. PORTSMOUTH, England (AFP) — New Portsmouth co-owner Alexandre Gaydamak, the son...
  166. WASHINGTON (AFP) — A team of international scientists have reportedly identifie...
  167. PARIS (AFP) — Two European banks -- Credit Lyonnais of France and NatWest of Br...
  168. FOXBORO, United States (AFP) — Seeking their fourth Super Bowl title in five ye...
  169. WASHINGTON (AFP) — Sectarian rivalries and inefficient Iraqi ministries could t...
  170. LIMA (AFP) — Alberto Fujimori's daughter Keiko and other supporters threw his h...
  171. LIVERPOOL, England (AFP) — Rafael Benitez has promised to try to win the FA Cup...
  172. ATAR, Mauritania (AFP) — Two-time defending champion Stephane Peterhansel, driv...
  173. WASHINGTON (AFP) — The commander of US-led forces in Iraq said that Iraq was no...
  174. WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US Congress's research arm has concluded that the Bush a...
  175. JENIN, West Bank (AFP) — Israeli troops have moved into the northern West Bank ...
  176. RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) — Followers of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades ordered i...
  177. WASHINGTON (AFP) — US President George W. Bush called for extending tax cuts ad...
  178. WASHINGTON (AFP) — A high-powered Asia-Pacific initiative aimed at slashing pol...
  179. GLASGOW (AFP) — Kris Boyd scored a hat-trick on his Rangers debut to help the I...
  180. NUNEATON, England (AFP) — The part-time players of Nuneaton Borough, exactly 10...
  181. AUBURN HILLS, Michigan (AFP) — The Utah Jazz cannot even produce a winning reco...
  182. DUESSELDORF, Germany (AFP) — German heavy industry giant ThyssenKrupp, the worl...
  183. NEW DELHI (AFP) — India's premier called for safe sex to be taught to young peo...
  184. LONDON (AFP) — Oil prices receded following a jump in US heating fuel stocks th...
  185. LONDON (AFP) — The Royal and Ancient Golf Club announced that Turnberry will be...
  186. AMMAN (AFP) — The Jordanian parliament re-elected Abdelhadi Majali as its speak...
  187. AMMAN (AFP) — King Abdullah II called on Jordanian MPs to swiftly adopt a new s...
  188. WASHINGTON (AFP) — In full page ads placed in leading US newspapers, Venezuela'...
  189. LONDON (AFP) — Punch Taverns said it had agreed to buy rival British pubs opera...
  190. MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AFP) — Earthquake survivors in Pakistan said they fear ...
  191. CAPE TOWN (AFP) — A group of about 40 German travel agents were attacked by rob...
  192. ROME (AFP) — The prime ministers of Italy and Spain called on their British cou...
  193. MOSCOW (AFP) — Russian health officials said they had registered 30,000 new cas...
  194. BEAVER CREEK, United States (AFP) — Austrian Hannes Reichelt mastered difficult...
  195. LONDON (AFP) — It is something virtually every Briton takes for granted and the...
  196. WASHINGTON (AFP) — Despite US claims of progress in quelling the insurgency in ...
  197. CHICAGO (AFP) — Fallen media tycoon Conrad Black pleaded not guilty Thursday to...
  198. TAIPEI (AFP) — Merck Display Technologies Ltd (MDT), a wholly-owned subsidiary ...
  199. LONDON (AFP) — More than 200 gaming fans braved a wet night on London's streets...