Human eggs and sperm have been grown in the laboratory in research which could change the face of parenthood. It paves the way for a cure for infertility and could help those left sterile by cancer treatment to have children who are biologically their...

Little is real in Patpong, a glowing bazaar and sex district here in Bangkok. The Gucci is fake, the DVDs are pirated and the go-go girls tell every man he’s handsome. Drugs too are sold here openly. Not speed or cocaine, but Viagra — or at least...

With an ambitious new pipeline planned to run along the bed of the Baltic Sea, the Russian natural gas giant Gazprom is driving a political wedge between Eastern and Western Europe.

The Obama administration is considering outbidding the Taliban to persuade Afghan villagers to lay down arms as it struggles to find a new approach to a war that is fast losing public and congressional support. Despite five war councils in two weeks,...

Rescuers struggled through mud and pounding rain Friday to clear mountain roads and retrieve more than 160 dead from dozens of landslides that buried villages and cut off towns in the rain-soaked northern Philippines. The latest calamity brought the...

President Barack Obama on Friday won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. “Only very rarely has a person...

To development experts who have long called for a shift in strategy in the Muslim world, it would seem like cause for celebration. After years of devoting the bulk of U.S. aid to Pakistan to military assistance, Washington is about to shift that...

Mr Guzman-Betancourt, who likened himself to the fictional gentleman jewel thief Raffles, was picked up by US border guards in the north eastern state of Vermont after apparently entering the country from Canada. The 33-year-old Colombian national was...

British Columbia (Reuters) - Canada’s self-proclaimed “Prince of Pot” gave himself up for extradition to the United States on Monday where he is expected to be jailed for up to five years for selling marijuana seeds to U.S....

Porlamar, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi signed a declaration on Monday night decrying what they call attempts by powerful Western countries to equate struggles against colonialism with terrorism. In the...