Stories Collection

  1. AMSTERDAM (AFP) — Wayne Rooney's fragile temperament flared up again as he and ...
  2. CRAWFORD, United States (AFP) — US President George W. Bush and UN Secretary Ge...
  3. CRAWFORD, United States (AFP) — US President George W. Bush extended to Septemb...
  4. SANTO DOMINGO, United States (AFP) — United Nations chief Kofi Annan has reiter...
  5. PARIS (AFP) — France and the United States agreed on a proposed UN Security Cou...
  6. BRUSSELS (AFP) — European employers are legally allowed to refuse jobs to smoke...
  7. TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran has called for an international probe into "Zionist crimes ...
  8. MADRID (AFP) — Spanish giants Real Madrid will try and buy Malian international...
  9. BAD TOLZ, Germany (AFP) — Australia's Graeme Brown has won the fourth stage of ...
  10. NEW YORK (AFP) — For many New Yorkers it is too soon. For others the very idea ...
  11. UNITED NATIONS (AFP) — Washington's UN ambassador, John Bolton, said the United...
  12. PARIS (AFP) — Iran does not give orders to the Shiite Hezbollah militia in Leba...
  13. MADRID (AFP) — Seventeen thousand unhappy travellers have reportedly filed comp...
  14. LOVELAND, United States (AFP) — Cristiano da Matta's condition has "stabilized"...
  15. ATHENS (AFP) — A source of pride to the Greeks, the Athens 2004 Olympic Games w...
  16. TIKRIT, Iraq (AFP) — At least 15 people were killed when a suicide bomber blew ...
  17. TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran has insisted it will not freeze uranium enrichment, in defi...
  18. HERAT, Afghanistan (AFP) — Two Afghan border police were killed and two were mi...
  19. BEIJING (AFP) — Southwest China is experiencing a serious drought, with 2.39 mi...
  20. COLOMBO, Aug 6, 2006 (AFP) — Muttiah Muralitharan has demolished South Africa's...
  21. SEEFELD, Austria (AFP) — Reigning champion Levi Leipheimer of the United States...
  22. DILI (AFP) — East Timor's outgoing foreign minister Jose Ramos-Horta will head ...
  23. BAGHDAD (AFP) — The Iraqi capital was struck by another devastating car bomb th...
  24. GOLMUD, China (AFP) — China has opened the world's highest railway, linking the...
  25. LIEGE, Belgium (AFP) — The family and friends of murdered 10-year-old Nathalie ...
  26. GENEVA (AFP) — Trading nations are running out of time to salvage the flounderi...
  27. DUISBURG (AFP) — Italy defender Fabio Grosso believes the Serie A match-fixing ...
  28. LONDON (AFP) — Andre Agassi checked out of Wimbledon for the final time and the...
  29. JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki won Saudi Arab...
  30. FRANKFURT (AFP) — A Thierry Henry goal handed France a deserved 1-0 win over la...
  31. PARIS (AFP) — Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden accused Iraqi Shiites of waging "...
  32. SANTA CLARA, United States (AFP) — The United States pounded Barbados 91-0 in a...
  33. PARIS (AFP) — A Paris court decision last week against the US bank Morgan Stanl...
  34. GAZA CITY (AFP) — Israel has temporarily reopened a border crossing into the Ga...
  35. BUHLERTAL (AFP) — An emotional David Beckham has resigned as England captain he...
  36. JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said he had ordered th...
  37. BERLIN (AFP) — The manager of Jan Ullrich's T-Mobile team Olaf Ludwig has refus...
  38. WASHINGTON (AFP) — Israel's Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres has said that hi...
  39. BERLIN (AFP) — German midfielder Torsten Frings' participation in the World Cup...
  40. NEW YORK (AFP) — Senior military officers have warned the US administration tha...
  41. OKLAHOMA CITY, united States (AFP) — Three time all-star Peja Stojakovic will s...
  42. LA PAZ (AFP) — The party of President Evo Morales has won a narrow majority in ...
  43. KARACHI (AFP) — Pakistani authorities have arrested around 100 people on charge...
  44. BADEN-BADEN (AFP) — Billed as a hot new talent ready to make his mark on the wo...
  45. TOKYO (AFP) — Ivica Osim, who looks set to become Japan's new coach, has told t...
  46. NEW YORK (AFP) — The dollar slid against the euro after a key survey showed a U...
  47. SEOUL, July 3, 2006 (AFP) — Two US technology firms have filed a complaint with...
  48. VALENCIA, Spain (AFP) — Excess speed caused a fatal metro train accident in the...
  49. LONDON (AFP) — John Terry is the red-hot favourite to take over the England cap...
  50. NEW YORK (AFP) — Ozzie Guillen and the world champion Chicago White Sox may hav...
  51. TEHRAN (AFP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has slammed the United Nat...
  52. WASHINGTON (AFP) — The American Society of Anesthesiologists called on its memb...
  53. LONDON (AFP) — Andy Murray has insisted he was still one to two years away from...
  54. TEHRAN (AFP) — In Islamic Iran where practising male homosexuals risk the death...
  55. NEW YORK (AFP) — All bets could soon be off in Atlantic City after a shutdown o...
  56. SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — A boom in consumer electronics prompted a nearly 10 perce...
  57. LONDON (AFP) — More than one in 10 British Muslims think the perpetrators of th...
  58. KABUL (AFP) — A blast caused by explosives on a pushcart rocked an area of cent...
  59. ANKARA (AFP) — Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul has flown to the United St...
  60. JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israel has stepped up the pressure on arch-foe Damascus, accu...
  61. VILNIUS (AFP) — Lithuanian Defence Minister Gediminas Kirkilas has become the B...
  62. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) — Afghan police killed 12 rebels from the extremist...
  63. TRIPOLI (AFP) — The Tripoli criminal court has heard testimony from prosecution...
  64. PARIS (AFP) — Developing countries such as Brazil, China and India hold the ans...
  65. ISTANBUL (AFP) — Turkish giants Fenerbahce has said that they had signed a two-...
  66. NYON, Switzerland (AFP) — Six stadiums have been shortlisted to host the 2008 a...
  67. NEW YORK (AFP) — The undisputed king of the world competitive eating circuit, T...
  68. LHASA, China (AFP) — The most senior ethnic Tibetan official in Chinese-ruled T...
  69. PARIS (AFP) — Pierre Cardin made a comeback to Paris men's fashion week, while ...
  70. DORTMUND (AFP) — Italy scored two sensational late goals in extra-time to book ...
  71. WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States said it was going on the diplomatic counte...
  72. ABIDJAN (AFP) — UN Secretary General Kofi Annan was to arrive in Ivory Coast to...
  73. HONG KONG (AFP) — Asian stocks were mostly lower in subdued trade, with sentime...
  74. MUMBAI (AFP) — Large tracts of India's western financial hub of Mumbai are unde...
  75. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) — Taliban militants have attacked the convoy of a p...
  76. LONDON (AFP) — World oil prices were mixed as US trading was resumed following ...
  77. BEIRUT (AFP) — French anti-terrorism judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere has arrived in ...
  78. KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — Countries in Asia and the Pacific can help curb the HIV/AI...
  79. DUISBURG (AFP) — Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro has said the scars left by the t...
  80. THE HAGUE (AFP) — Dutch Queen Beatrix has tasked outgoing Prime Minister Jan Pe...
  81. UNITED NATIONS (AFP) — The UN Security Council has kicked off emergency consult...
  82. WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States and North Korea's Asian neighbours led int...
  83. WASHINGTON (AFP) — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said it was "high tim...
  84. NEW YORK (AFP) — The famed casinos of Atlantic City were forced to shut their d...
  85. NEW YORK (AFP) — The dollar rose against other major currencies amid geopolitic...
  86. PARIS (AFP) — The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, has cancelled a ...
  87. MARSEILLE, France (AFP) — Marseille have a loan agreement with Liverpool over i...
  88. DETROIT, United States (AFP) — General Motors Corp. said its chief financial of...
  89. SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — Barry Bonds' former personal trainer was jailed for refus...
  90. MUNICH (AFP) — Portugal captain Luis Figo was desperate to crown his illustriou...
  91. LONDON (AFP) — World oil prices firmed after hitting a record high in New York ...
  92. SYDNEY (AFP) — Prime Minister John Howard has ruled out storing radioactive was...
  93. KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — Malaysia Airlines has said it will let go of 6,000 employe...
  94. NICOSIA (AFP) — Cyprus is looking forward to Marcos Baghdatis once again upsett...
  95. NEW DELHI (AFP) — One of India's largest unions has announced a campaign to sto...
  96. WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US economy's massive service sector cooled in June, a su...
  97. WASHINGTON (AFP) — Enron Corp. has said it had agreed a settlement with Merrill...
  98. TAMPA, United States (AFP) — Avoiding a salary arbitration showdown, the Tampa ...
  99. CAEN, France (AFP) — Former three-time world champion Oscar Freire ended a four...
  100. LONDON (AFP) — Martina Navratilova's dreams of marking her final Wimbledon with...
  101. WASHINGTON (AFP) — US President George W. Bush lauded Canada's Prime Minister S...
  102. TAIPEI (AFP) — Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian has relinquished some of his m...
  103. SYDNEY (AFP) — Tickets for this year's Australia-England Ashes Test cricket ser...
  104. HONG KONG (AFP) — Telekom Malaysia has said it has signed a Memorandum of Under...
  105. TOKYO (AFP) — World motorcycling champion Valentino Rossi has agreed to stay wi...
  106. NEW DELHI (AFP) — Former West Indies fast bowling great Andy Roberts reopened t...
  107. SEOUL (AFP) — North Korea invited US envoy Christopher Hill to Pyongyang in an ...
  108. JAKARTA (AFP) — Indonesia will tell the United States not to meddle in regional...
  109. FORT MEADE, United States (AFP) — A US army sergeant was found guilty of using ...
  110. NEW YORK (AFP) — More than 60 Nobel Prize winners have signed letters to US Pre...
  111. FLAMANVILLE, France (AFP) — A Greenpeace activist flew an ultralight aircraft o...
  112. GALLOWAY, United States (AFP) — Swedish superstar Annika Sorenstam launches her...
  113. WASHINGTON (AFP) — More detainees held by the US military at the Guantanamo "wa...
  114. DETROIT, United States (AFP) — The New York Yankees placed All-Star outfielder ...
  115. BERLIN (AFP) — They are in the minority but there are Germans who feel the Worl...
  116. BEIJING (AFP) — Police in China's restive Muslim-populated Xinjiang region have...
  117. MOSCOW (AFP) — Russia's prosecutor general was sacked at the request of Preside...
  118. NOTTINGHAM (AFP) — Muttiah Muralitharan frustrated England with the bat, not th...
  119. LIMA (AFP) — A former army officer who wants to redistribute wealth and nationa...
  120. BRUSSELS (AFP) — The European Union has widened an import ban on Romanian poult...
  121. BRUSSELS (AFP) — An investigation into Arsenal's reported secret takeover of Be...
  122. LA PAZ (AFP) — India's Jindal Steel and Power has been given the rights to deve...
  123. HELSINKI (AFP) — Finland and Sweden have urged Norway to reduce its whaling quo...
  124. STOCKHOLM (AFP) — The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular websites for ...
  125. BELGRADE (AFP) — European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana called on Se...
  126. LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Actress Angelina Jolie has reserved 24 domain names featuri...
  127. MEXICO CITY (AFP) — The United States has begun to roll out the first of up to ...
  128. WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States said it would announce the outcome of talk...
  129. WASHINGTON (AFP) — US Marines were cleared of misconduct over 11 deaths of Iraq...
  130. KABUL (AFP) — Dozens of Afghan and coalition troops have retaken a southern Afg...
  131. CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AFP) — The woman's handbag used by former All Blacks...
  132. WASHINGTON (AFP) — Seemingly independent drug laboratory trials in the United S...
  133. MANCHESTER (AFP) — Peter Crouch scored a hat-trick as England concluded their p...
  134. WASHINGTON (AFP) — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice cheered on thousands rac...
  135. TORONTO (AFP) — Canada foiled a homegrown terrorist plot and arrested 17 Canadi...
  136. ATLANTA, United States (AFP) — Targeted molecular therapies, promising treatmen...
  137. HAVANA (AFP) — Raul Castro, the official political heir to Cuba's communist reg...
  138. ST. LOUIS, Missouri (AFP) — St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols strained ...
  139. BEIJING (AFP) — Beijing largely ignored the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen m...
  140. LAGOS (AFP) — Armed militants have freed eight Western oil workers held hostage...
  141. SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt (AFP) — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert insisted that...
  142. JAKARTA (AFP) — World Health Organisation (WHO) tests have confirmed Indonesia'...
  143. ANKARA (AFP) — The long-awaited first shipment of Caspian oil from the new Baku...
  144. GAZA CITY (AFP) — Palestinian civil servants, who endured three months without ...
  145. DUBAI (AFP) — A Dubai government-owned firm said it had bought the Knickerbocke...
  146. ATHENS (AFP) — The Posidonia maritime exposition, the world's largest shipping ...
  147. EDINBURGH (AFP) — Ghana notched an impressive 3-1 victory over 2002 World Cup s...
  148. BEIJING (AFP) — The cause of a military plane crash in eastern China that kille...
  149. PARIS (AFP) — BNP Paribas, the biggest French bank by market capitalisation, op...
  150. ST JOHN'S (AFP) — Wasim Jaffer acknowledges that his second Test hundred for In...
  151. RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) — The EU will not let Palestinians down, foreign poli...
  152. DAMASCUS (AFP) — Fourteen jailed Syrian dissidents and human rights activists h...
  153. LONDON (AFP) — Emergency crews reacting to last year's deadly London bombings w...
  154. SANTO DOMINGO (AFP) — US Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick praised Lati...
  155. MOSCOW (AFP) — Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed founder of Russia's Yukos oil c...
  156. SHANGHAI (AFP) — Bank of China has been ensnared in another corruption scandal ...
  157. NEW YORK (AFP) — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's crusade against gun crime t...
  158. LONDON (AFP) — Prime Minister Tony Blair, avoiding criticism for using Queen El...
  159. ROME (AFP) — Italian players converged on Coverciano for the final stage of the...
  160. VIENNA (AFP) — The United States welcomed as a positive sign Iran's cautious re...
  161. RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) — Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas was set to call a r...
  162. HONG KONG (AFP) — Cathay Pacific Airlines' shares remained suspended for a seco...
  163. BANGALORE, India (AFP) — US technology giant IBM has said it will triple its in...
  164. BRAMPTON, Canada (AFP) — Fifteen people detained at the weekend on suspicion of...
  165. HAMBURG, Germany (AFP) — The United States defeated Angola 1-0 in a friendly ar...
  166. LONDON (AFP) — England have delayed naming their squad for the upcoming five-ma...
  167. BERLIN (AFP) — Germany captain Michael Ballack admits the World Cup hosts alrea...
  168. ASMARA (AFP) — The United States has warned US citizens against visiting Eritre...
  169. NEW DELHI (AFP) — India rejected the US State Department's annual "Trafficking ...
  170. ISIOLO, Kenya (AFP) — A suspected cholera outbreak has killed at least 13 peopl...
  171. AMMAN (AFP) — Jordan's King Abdullah II will head to Saudi Arabia on a two-day ...
  172. DOHA (AFP) — Qatari crown prince Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani inaugurated th...
  173. ARTESIA, United States (AFP) — The White House welcomed Palestinian Authority p...
  174. MOSCOW (AFP) — Internet news portals pose no threat to newspapers and press age...
  175. SAINT-GALMIER, France (AFP) — Belgian rider Philippe Gilbert of the Francaise d...
  176. WASHINGTON (AFP) — A US report may have mistakenly said no one had been judged ...
  177. WASHINGTON (AFP) — A federal jury convicted a Maryland man of plotting to aid a...
  178. LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Satanists from around the world gathered in Hollywood for a...
  179. LONDON (AFP) — The Church of England said it had proved a hit with football fan...
  180. LONDON (AFP) — World oil prices have steadied after Iran indicated it would at ...
  181. MARIENFELD (AFP) — Portugal's World Cup rivals will be making a huge mistake if...
  182. MOSCOW (AFP) — From rural mountainous Nepal to the industrial heartland of Germ...
  183. JERUSALEM (AFP) — The Israeli army has accused the governing Palestinian moveme...
  184. THE HAGUE (AFP) — The Netherlands has lifted most of the measures put in place ...
  185. LONDON (AFP) — The mayor of London lashed out at US diplomats for refusing to p...
  186. AMMAN (AFP) — A team of Palestinians is in Amman in a bid to resolve a row over...
  187. MIAMI (AFP) — An Arab-American former university professor was sentenced in Flo...
  188. COPENHAGEN (AFP) — Denmark may pull 100 soldiers out of Iraq -- a fifth of its ...
  189. WASHINGTON (AFP) — Incomes of US households jumped 0.8 percent in March, the bi...
  190. ALEXANDRIA, United States (AFP) — Jurors deliberated into a nerve-fraying secon...
  191. ABUJA (AFP) — Talks to end the bloody war raging in Sudan's Darfur region conti...
  192. NEW YORK (AFP) — Frenchman Boris Diaw, enjoying a career-best season for the Ph...
  193. HOUSTON, United States (AFP) — The US government and energy giant ExxonMobil Co...
  194. MILWAUKEE, United States (AFP) — Chauncey Billups scored 34 points and the Detr...
  195. DETROIT, United States (AFP) — As concerns mount over soaring gasoline prices a...
  196. SUNDERLAND, England (AFP) — Thierry Henry and Arsene Wenger joined forces to sl...
  197. GAZA CITY (AFP) — A delegation from Islamic Jihad, the radical Palestinian fact...
  198. PARIS (AFP) — US and European officials pushed for a tough, binding UN resoluti...
  199. DOHA (AFP) — An officially-sanctioned Qatari rights group warned of the less-th...