Stories Collection

  1. NEW YORK (AFP) ??” USA Track and Field denied that a date has been set for sprinter K...
  2. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The US Justice Department is investigating whether Halliburton C...
  3. PEBBLE BEACH, United States (AFP) ??” Davis Love's drought ended at the Pebble Beach ...
  4. SYDNEY, (AFP) ??” Police have reissued Australian Olympic trap shooting gold medallis...
  5. TOKYO, (AFP) ??” The Bank of Japan's (BOJ) policy board has decided unanimously to le...
  6. BANGKOK, (AFP) ??” The European Union (EU) has blasted Thailand for covering up the b...
  7. GAZA CITY, (AFP) ??” A Palestinian militant was killed in a shooting incident near th...
  8. GLASGOW (AFP) ??” Celtic midfielder Neil Lennon believes a reported Martin O'Neill mo...
  9. LONDON (AFP) ??” World heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis was set to announce his reti...
  10. SINGAPORE (AFP) ??” Singapore Telecommunications announced a stunning 188-percent sur...
  11. LONDON (AFP) ??” England coach Sir Clive Woodward will be asked to lead the British a...
  12. FRANKFURT (AFP) ??” The European Central Bank held its key interest rates steady as e...
  13. BERLIN (AFP) ??” Schalke 04 have told their troublesome Nigerian international strike...
  14. ROME (AFP) ??” Pedestrians who ignore a temporary one-way system over bridges and in ...
  15. LOS ANGELES (AFP) ??” Grammy organizers have taken Janet Jackson off the list of pres...
  16. VIENNA (AFP) ??” Austrian ski ace Benjamin Raich, who sits second overall in the Worl...
  17. LONDON (AFP) ??” European stock markets saw mixed fortunes as investors digested a fl...
  18. BOSTON (AFP) ??” The Boston Red Sox boosted their already potent batting attack by si...
  19. PARIS (AFP) ??” France's ruling conservatives and left-wing opposition struck an acco...
  20. JAKARTA, (AFP) ??” Seven people have been killed when a powerful earthquake struck In...
  21. DOOMDOOMA, India, (AFP) ??” Rampant pests are eating away at India's dwindling winter...
  22. ISLAMABAD (AFP) ??” Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf won another major victory, se...
  23. RIYADH (AFP) ??” More than 50,000 cars crossed the King Fahd causeway from Saudi Arab...
  24. BAGHDAD (AFP) ??” The death toll from a powerful car bomb that tore apart a popular B...
  25. ALGIERS (AFP) ??” Algerian Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem has called on two riv...
  26. WELLINGTON (AFP) ??” World No. 15 Jelena Dokic withdrew from next week's Auckland Cla...
  27. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” New Year's Day was peaceful, with disruptions in international a...
  28. KUALA LUMPUR, (AFP) ??” Malaysia, which lost out to Qatar in the race to host the 200...
  29. LONDON (AFP) ??” The leader of Britain's main opposition Conservative party, Michael ...
  30. BEIJING, (AFP) ??” China has confiscated 186 tons of US beef products in Beijing duri...
  31. LONDON (AFP) ??” Newcastle United manager Sir Bobby Robson is set to leave a decision...
  32. STOCKHOLM (AFP) ??” Exposing children to x-rays in routine brain scans can impair the...
  33. FALLUJAH, Iraq (AFP) ??” A US Army helicopter crashed in the restive town of Fallujah...
  34. BAGHDAD (AFP) ??” Former members of Saddam Hussein's ruling Baath party face an uncer...
  35. KANO, Nigeria (AFP) ??” An influential Nigerian panel of doctors and Islamic scholars...
  36. SEOUL (AFP) ??” North Korea has agreed to allow a US delegation to visit the nuclear ...
  37. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” Confusion over the identities of passengers that were considered...
  38. BEIJING (AFP) ??” Chinese archaeologists have discovered a 55 million-year-old fossil...
  39. LONDON (AFP) ??” Sixty-five percent of Britons don't know in which US city the hit mu...
  40. ZAGREB (AFP) ??” The Croatian government decided to provide the lawyers of a fugitive...
  41. ROME (AFP) ??” A fuel tanker that suffered an on-board explosion off the Mediterranea...
  42. TOKYO, (AFP) ??” Japan is considering reducing its contribution to the UN budget by 2...
  43. CAIRO (AFP) ??” An Egyptian plane carrying 148 people - including 135 French tourists...
  44. SYDNEY (AFP) ??” Sachin Tendulkar and V.V.S. Laxman hammered Australia's bowlers in a...
  45. CAPE TOWN (AFP) ??” Wicketkeeper Mark Boucher hit his fourth Test century but first i...
  46. BAM, Iran (AFP) ??” Rescuers pulled a 97-year-old woman alive from the rubble here, e...
  47. GLASGOW (AFP) ??” Rangers manager Alex McLeish virtually conceded the Scottish Premie...
  48. DAMASCUS (AFP) ??” Syrian Vice-President Abdel Halim Khaddam accused Israel of delibe...
  49. MARSEILLE, France (AFP) ??” Fabien Barthez made an extraordinary match-winning debut ...
  50. NABLUS, West Bank (AFP) ??” Four Palestinians were killed in the northern West Bank c...
  51. PASADENA, United States (AFP) ??” A US-made robotic rover was to touch down on the bu...
  52. TBILISI, (AFP) ??” Voters in the chaotic former Soviet republic of Georgia are set to...
  53. RIYADH, (AFP) ??” Saudi Arabia was not informed of security threats which led British...
  54. TBILISI (AFP) ??” Mikhail Saakashvili, the man widely expected to be voted in as Geor...
  55. KABUL (AFP) ??” Afghanistan's loya jirga has reached agreement on a new constitution ...
  56. LONDON (AFP) ??” Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger believes that England coach Sven-Goran...
  57. TBILISI (AFP) ??” Turnout in the presidential election in the former Soviet republic ...
  58. LONDON (AFP) ??” British Airways, which has seen profits cut by terrorism fears and w...
  59. LONDON (AFP) ??” Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson confirmed that they were...
  60. YEOVIL, England (AFP) ??” Liverpool survived a lacklustre first half to beat Third Di...
  61. TBILISI (AFP) ??” Mikhail Saakashvili, the 36-year-old reformer who ousted Georgia's ...
  62. LOS ANGELES (AFP) ??” The tiny Hobbits of JRR Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" loomed la...
  63. ROME (AFP) ??” The rescue specialist charged with saving Italian food giant Parmalat ...
  64. BAM, Iran (AFP) ??” Iranian authorities were starting to draw up a multi-million-doll...
  65. TBILISI (AFP) ??” Mikhail Saakashvili, a 36-year-old reformer who ousted Georgia's ve...
  66. ISLAMABAD (AFP) ??” Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistani Presiden...
  67. TOKYO (AFP) ??” Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi left for Iran to discuss p...
  68. CAIRO (AFP) ??” The Egyptian government defended the airline that operated the charte...
  69. NEW DELHI (AFP) ??” India awarded former Czech president Vaclav Havel its highest hon...
  70. PHILADELPHIA, United States (AFP) ??” American baseball's all-time hits leader Pete R...
  71. ANKARA (AFP) ??” Syria is opposed to any attempt to carve up its neighbour and fellow...
  72. HONG KONG (AFP) ??” Hong Kong health authorities said they would beef up anti-SARS me...
  73. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit to the Un...
  74. VALENCIA, Spain (AFP) ??” Colombian star Juan Pablo Montoya promised to land the Form...
  75. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” Evidence uncovered in the probe into November's deadly suicide b...
  76. CAPE TOWN (AFP) ??” Herschelle Gibbs and Jacques Kallis hit centuries and shared a 25...
  77. DETROIT, United States (AFP) ??” General Motors said its December US sales slipped ni...
  78. BERLIN (AFP) ??” Actor Tom Cruise was mobbed by fans in Berlin at the European premie...
  79. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The United States insisted that its rejected plan to send a high...
  80. PASADENA, United States (AFP) ??” The US robot probe Spirit snapped the first full-co...
  81. RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) ??” The Palestinian radical Islamist group Hamas has had co...
  82. HANOI, (AFP) ??” Vietnam's shrimp industry said it has hired a US law firm to fight a...
  83. HANOI, (AFP) ??” Nearly 40,000 chickens have died from a mystery virus in two provinc...
  84. LONDON (AFP) ??” Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand is reported to be reconside...
  85. PARIS (AFP) ??” Rosetta, a billion-dollar spacecraft designed to chase a comet and la...
  86. PERTH, Australia (AFP) ??” American Lindsay Davenport, 27, doesn't know quite when sh...
  87. PARIS (AFP) ??” Alcatel shares gained ground after the chairman of the telecommunicat...
  88. NEW DELHI (AFP) ??” Sales of personal computers in India are expected to jump 30 perc...
  89. BERLIN (AFP) ??” DIW -- one of the six leading economic research institutes in German...
  90. LOS ANGELES (AFP) ??” Andy Murray is a patriotic as the next Canadian. But there are ...
  91. LONDON (AFP) ??” Police in Britain were called into look into the car crash in Paris ...
  92. BAM, Iran (AFP) ??” Most of the US aid workers rushed to southeastern Iran to help wi...
  93. NEW YORK (AFP) ??” Marrying Britney Spears was a "cool" idea that quickly became a hu...
  94. LISBON (AFP) ??” Portugal is set to put recession behind it this year with 0.75 perce...
  95. TOKYO (AFP) ??” Kiharu Nakamura, who abandoned a career as a top geisha to teach trad...
  96. LONDON (AFP) ??” Princess Diana and her lover Dodi Fayed were the victims of a "horre...
  97. COPENHAGEN (AFP) ??” Danish Sports Minister Brian Mikkelsen said Rio Ferdinand's eigh...
  98. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” French authorities took a woman passenger off a Delta airline je...
  99. LES HERBIERS, France (AFP) ??” Spain's three-time Tour de France podium finisher Jose...
  100. NEW ORLEANS, United States (AFP) ??” New Orleans police said that Ray Davies, founder...
  101. HUNTSVILLE, United States (AFP) ??” Two men were executed in US prisons, one of them ...
  102. BEIRUT (AFP) ??” The hardline Palestinian movement Hamas has decided to take part in ...
  103. LONDON (AFP) ??” Both Alex Ferguson and Claudio Ranieri have played down the signific...
  104. JERUSALEM (AFP) ??” Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said ahead of talks with top US envo...
  105. AMMAN (AFP) ??” Jordan's King Abdullah II pledged to make his country a democratic mo...
  106. ABIDJAN (AFP) ??” Hundreds of youths staged a violent demonstration outside a French ...
  107. MILAN (AFP) ??” Italy launched a strong defence of the United Nations' Kyoto climate ...
  108. NAIROBI (AFP) ??” The international medical charity Medecins sans Frontieres announce...
  109. PARIS (AFP) ??” Developing countries led by China and backed by sports and movie star...
  110. GENEVA (AFP) ??” Palestinian and Israeli opposition figures unveiled an alternative p...
  111. INDIANAPOLIS, United States (AFP) ??” World champion decathlete Tom Pappas and distan...
  112. LONDON (AFP) ??” Tony Blair is not mad, a leading psychiatrist said in findings publi...
  113. UNITED NATIONS (AFP) ??” UN Secretary General Kofi Annan delivered a message of suppo...
  114. PHOENIX, United States (AFP) ??” Three days after dealing star pitcher Curt Schilling...
  115. BEIJING, (AFP) ??” German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has headed to China's southern...
  116. NEW YORK (AFP) ??” Antonio McDyess, a member of the 2000 US Olympic gold medal squad,...
  117. MUNICH, Germany (AFP) ??” Bayern Munich president Franz Beckenbauer has told the play...
  118. PARIS (AFP) ??” Vivendi Universal predicted robust growth in operating earnings for f...
  119. BRUSSELS (AFP) ??” Most if not all NATO allies with troops in Iraq have pledged to st...
  120. PARIS (AFP) ??” Talks between French businessman Francois Pinault and US prosecutors ...
  121. MILAN (AFP) ??” The United Nations still hopes Russia will ratify the Kyoto Protocol,...
  122. NYON, Switzerland (AFP) ??” The postponed Champions League match between Turkish club...
  123. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The United States renewed a call for US citizens to avoid all no...
  124. OSLO (AFP) ??” A Norwegian who drew the ire of the Hollywood movie industry by breaki...
  125. MARSEILLE, France (AFP) ??” Heavy rain and flooding in southern France sparked a majo...
  126. LISBON (AFP) ??” Singapore said it would like to complete a free trade agreement with...
  127. BAGHDAD (AFP) ??” Seeking to erase more memories of their once powerful foe, the US-l...
  128. NEW YORK (AFP) ??” The new Mandarin Oriental hotel that just opened amid great fanfar...
  129. BAGHDAD (AFP) ??” Two US Democratic senators expressed concerns that even the massive...
  130. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” Six-nation talks on the North Korea nuclear crisis may not take ...
  131. LONDON (AFP) ??” The wife of British singer-songwriter Phil Collins had her purse sna...
  132. BRISBANE, Australia (AFP) ??” Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly, singled out by Shane War...
  133. AUCKLAND (AFP) ??” All Blacks coach John Mitchell would have grounds for legal action...
  134. LOS ANGELES (AFP) ??” The United States plays an indispensable leadership role in wor...
  135. CANBERRA (AFP) ??” Sport in Australia is facing a crisis as childhood obesity threate...
  136. KUWAIT CITY (AFP) ??” The bodies of two Japanese diplomats killed in Iraq over the we...
  137. LONDON (AFP) ??” European stock markets crept up slightly during early trade, althoug...
  138. CAIRO (AFP) ??” Sudanese rebel chief John Garang said he wants to share power not onl...
  139. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” In a sudden reversal, the Pentagon allowed a US citizen raised i...
  140. MARRAKESH, Morocco (AFP) ??” US Secretary of State Colin Powell met with Morocco's Ki...
  141. SINGAPORE (AFP) ??” Public wireless area networks are spreading in the Asia-Pacific r...
  142. PARIS (AFP) ??” France and the United States were poised to fight a court battle in t...
  143. PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa, Dec 3 (AFP) ??” The owner of a luxury lodge in South Af...
  144. ABIDJAN (AFP) ??” Hardline backers of President Laurent Gbagbo defied a ban on public...
  145. BAGHDAD (AFP) ??” Persistent scepticism about US battlefield reports of 54 insurgents...
  146. LONDON (AFP) ??” The euro powered its way to another record high against the dollar o...
  147. COLUMBUS, United States (AFP) ??” Authorities imposed special security in this Midwes...
  148. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The United States is determined to prevent the creation of a new...
  149. ROME (AFP) ??” Lazio put their recent poor league form behind them to close in on a p...
  150. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The United States is "ready to go" for six-nation talks on North...
  151. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The United States said it would not "sugarcoat" its differences ...
  152. NARITA, Japan (AFP) ??” The bodies of two Japanese diplomats killed in Iraq arrived b...
  153. MARSEILLE, France (AFP) ??” The weather alert was lifted after the floods and storms ...
  154. ABUJA (AFP) ??” Against a dramatic backdrop of the vast Aso Rock that dominates centr...
  155. CAIRO (AFP) ??” Twelve Palestinian factions began talks in Egypt aimed at halting att...
  156. NAIROBI (AFP) ??” Seven multinational companies, which operate in developing countrie...
  157. LONDON (AFP) ??” Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson is refusing to apologise fo...
  158. GLASGOW (AFP) ??” Martin O'Neill has warned that fixture congestion could wreck Celti...
  159. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” US President George W. Bush is set to announce his decision to l...
  160. LONDON (AFP) ??” The International Maritime Organisation met here to study European U...
  161. VIENNA (AFP) ??” OPEC ministers decided at a meeting here to maintain the cartel's oi...
  162. CAPE TOWN (AFP) ??” Embattled Springbok rugby coach Rudolf Straeuli and SA Rugby mana...
  163. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” President George W. Bush's administration will announce it is sc...
  164. KABUL (AFP) ??” US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld met President Hamid Karzai after...
  165. BAGHDAD (AFP) ??” Iraq's interim foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari welcomed coalition p...
  166. GREENSBORO, United State (AFP) ??” American athletics officials and top stars ripped ...
  167. MARSEILLE, France (AFP) ??” A quarter of a million people were without drinking water...
  168. BEAVER CREEK, United States (AFP) ??” Hermann Maier made a promising return to the Bi...
  169. WARSAW (AFP) ??” Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller injured two vertebrae when his h...
  170. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” White House spokesman Scott McClellan said it was premature to s...
  171. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The United States denied it was to blame for a diplomatic hitch ...
  172. LOS ANGELES (AFP) ??” Ravaged by Alzheimer's disease, former US president Ronald Reag...
  173. BAGHDAD (AFP) ??” An explosion near a mosque as a US convoy drove by left several Ira...
  174. TBILISI (AFP) ??” US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrived in Georgia, becoming t...
  175. PARIS (AFP) ??” Trade officials around the world praised US President George W. Bush ...
  176. ABUJA (AFP) ??” To the beat of drums and the tones of a traditional Nigerian choir, B...
  177. WARSAW (AFP) ??” Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller said he was in great pain a day ...
  178. FRANKFURT, Germany (AFP) ??” France striker Djibril Cisse could miss some or all of n...
  179. LOS ANGELES (AFP) ??” Two weeks after Michael Jackson's arrest on child molestation c...
  180. ADDIS ABABA (AFP) ??” The International Labour Organization called for employers, gov...
  181. PARIS (AFP) ??” An 85-million-dollar (70-million-dollar) scheme to save the northern ...
  182. TOKYO (AFP) ??” Japan's finance minister said he did not foresee further bank failure...
  183. HARARE (AFP) ??” Voting in a key by-election in Zimbabwe, marred on its first day by ...
  184. CARACAS (AFP) ??” The Venezuelan government closed part of the border with Colombia a...
  185. KUWAIT CITY (AFP) ??” Sixteen Kuwaiti Shiite mourners returning from the Iraqi holy c...
  186. MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) ??” American sensation Michael Phelps will keep the swimmi...
  187. LONDON, (AFP) ??” Britain's government will next month announce Heathrow airport, wes...
  188. COLOMBO, (AFP) ??” Sri Lanka's beleaguered government has rejected a power-sharing ar...
  189. HARARE, (AFP) ??” Voters in the central Zimbabwe town of Kadoma have begun voting in ...
  190. HARARE (AFP) ??” The 21-year-old Fidel Edwards, making his debut for the West Indies,...
  191. LONDON (AFP) ??” England World Cup hero Jonny Wilkinson showed off the Webb Ellis Tro...
  192. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” Police in Ohio investigated the death of a motorist that may be ...
  193. ROME (AFP) ??” Lazio's brittle confidence sunk even lower after they crashed to a 3-0...
  194. ROME, (AFP) ??” Some 25 Nobel Peace Prize laureates, including Mikhail Gorbachev and ...
  195. DUNEDIN, New Zealand, (AFP) ??” A small town in New Zealand has banned children from ...
  196. SEOUL, (AFP) ??” South Korea's appeal court upheld the conviction of a former aide to...
  197. HAMBURG, Germany (AFP) ??” Boxing legend Muhammad Ali accepted one of Germany's top a...
  198. BRUSSELS (AFP) ??” The European Commission announced the introduction of an EU pet pa...
  199. ASAHIKAWA, Japan (AFP) ??” Veteran Ukraine skater Elena Liashenko grabbed the lead in...