Stories Collection

  1. LONDON (AFP) ??” Tottenham might find themselves on course for another row with Mali ...
  2. SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) ??” The maligned purchase of US life insurer Execu...
  3. JERUSALEM (AFP) ??” Israeli police fired tear gas grenades through the windows of Jer...
  4. MANAMA (AFP) ??” The new Bahrain International Circuit left most drivers satisfied af...
  5. NEW DELHI (AFP) ??” India skipper Sourav Ganguly said his team made a "mistake" by de...
  6. MOSCOW (AFP) ??” The European Space Agency (ESA) is in negotiations with Russia to se...
  7. SRINAGAR, India (AFP) ??” Amid a renewed push to end 15 years of bloodshed in Indian-...
  8. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” Kuwait's foreign minister said that OPEC's decision to cut produ...
  9. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” Former president Bill Clinton opposes President George W. Bush's...
  10. MONACO (AFP) ??” Champions League quarter-finalists Monaco went to the top of the Fre...
  11. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” Barely six months after lunching with US first lady Laura Bush, ...
  12. MADISON, Wisconsin (AFP) ??” US police indicated they believe a woman student whose d...
  13. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The US government has warned local law enforcement authorities t...
  14. PUNCHESTOWN RACECOURSE, Ireland (AFP) ??” The European Commission is to recommend dis...
  15. CAIRO (AFP) ??” Arab League chief Amr Mussa called for the Arab world and internation...
  16. BRATISLAVA (AFP) ??” Slovaks cast their votes in a presidential election as well as a...
  17. LONDON (AFP) ??” Newcastle revived their Champions League challenge with a 3-1 Premie...
  18. SYDNEY (AFP) ??” Petria Thomas, Michael Klim and Sarah Ryan were named on their third...
  19. PARIS (AFP) ??” Lyon suffered a setback ahead of next week's Champions League quarter...
  20. MONTREAL (AFP) ??” Insolvent Air Canada, whose Hong Kong-based benefactor this week w...
  21. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” Teenage phenomenom Freddy Adu made a low-key but victorious debu...
  22. PARIS (AFP) ??” Shareholders in Eurotunnel, the struggling rail operator linking Fran...
  23. TOKYO (AFP) ??” Economic and fiscal policy minister Heizo Takenaka forecast that Japa...
  24. COLOMBO (AFP) ??” Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga was set to win parliamen...
  25. MEERBEKE, Belgium (AFP) ??” Germany's Steffen Wesemann, of the T-Mobile team, won the...
  26. KEY BISCAYNE (AFP) ??” Serena Williams cruised to a crown in her first tournament aft...
  27. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” Joseph Biden, an influential senator on US foreign policy, warne...
  28. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” An increasing number of Americans believe President George W. Bu...
  29. JERUSALEM (AFP) ??” Hundreds of followers from different branches of Christianity beg...
  30. JAKARTA (AFP) ??” Polls opened in Indonesia's general election, with more than 147 mi...
  31. PORT BLAIR, India (AFP) ??” The economy of the Andaman islands has withered since the...
  32. INDIANAPOLIS, United States (AFP) ??” After a day of illness and one day's rest, Mich...
  33. MANAMA (AFP) ??” Juan Pablo Montoya admitted here that Ferrari are clearly faster tha...
  34. GENEVA (AFP) ??” A weak dollar and buoyant activity in China helped global trade grow...
  35. LONDON (AFP) ??” England football captain David Beckham joined his wife Victoria in S...
  36. BUDAPEST (AFP) ??” The Hungarian central bank cut its key interest rate by 25 basis p...
  37. MADRID (AFP) ??” Spain said that Jamal Ahmidan, believed to have been a key player in...
  38. JERUSALEM (AFP) ??” Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon renewed his threats against P...
  39. CHARLOTTE, United States (AFP) ??” The US administration warned Israel's Prime Minist...
  40. BERLIN (AFP) ??” Chimps and humans differ by only a tiny percentage in their genetic ...
  41. LEEDS (AFP) ??” Alan Smith scored the winning goal which improved Leeds' chances of a...
  42. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” Democratic presidential contender John Kerry put the spotlight o...
  43. SYDNEY (AFP) ??” A leading Australian doctor called for smokers to be denied elective...
  44. HONG KONG, April 6 (AFP) ??” Footprints found on a mud bank in a suburban Hong Kong t...
  45. INDIANAPOLIS, United States (AFP) ??” This year's Olympic pool won't have a roof, and...
  46. AUGUSTA, Georgia (AFP) ??” Former Masters champion Vijay Singh has his sights firmly ...
  47. KIEV (AFP) ??” A Ukrainian soldier was killed and five others wounded in fighting wit...
  48. LONDON (AFP) ??” British and US intelligence services foiled a plot to detonate a che...
  49. NAIROBI (AFP) ??” Sudan's government and main rebel group have reached agreements on ...
  50. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The United States has no immediate plan to increase troop levels...
  51. ROME (AFP) ??” Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon signed a contract extension that ...
  52. TORONTO (AFP) ??” Playwright Ronald Harwood, who pocketed an Oscar for "The Pianist" ...
  53. PARIS (AFP) ??” The board of Eurotunnel has only a "fairly slim" chance of remaining ...
  54. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” US Secretary of State Colin Powell rebuked a leading Democratic ...
  55. CHICAGO (AFP) ??” Men who enjoy an active sex life need not fret that their sexual ac...
  56. LOS ANGELES (AFP) ??” US movie legend and anti-AIDS crusader Elizabeth Taylor has don...
  57. LONDON (AFP) ??” Deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is being held at a US military...
  58. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” US national security advisor Condoleezza Rice can expect a grill...
  59. BEIJING, (AFP) ??” China's state-run press hailed a legal interpretation by the mainl...
  60. STOCKHOLM (AFP) ??” At least 100 Swedish citizens or residents of Iranian descent, wh...
  61. KIEV (AFP) ??” Ukrainian troops withdrew from the Iraqi city of Kut, south of the cap...
  62. JERUSALEM (AFP) ??” The separation barrier being built by Israel around Jerusalem wil...
  63. JAKARTA (AFP) ??” Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri visited an overcrowded J...
  64. JERUSALEM (AFP) ??” The barrier being built by Israel around Jerusalem will be comple...
  65. MILAN (AFP) ??” Milan investigators looking into the collapse of Parmalat have drawn ...
  66. BANGUI (AFP) ??” The Central African Republic (CAR) launched a three-day vaccination ...
  67. LONDON (AFP) ??” Eidur Gudjohnsen hopes that if Chelsea finish second in the Premiers...
  68. LISBON (AFP) ??” Portuguese anti-abortion campaigners said they had collected over 19...
  69. LONDON (AFP) ??” Nigerian international playmaker Jay-Jay Okocha insisted he still ha...
  70. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” Denver Broncos running back Clinton Portis reached agreement on ...
  71. ROME (AFP) ??” The tiny port of Ginostra, on the volcanic island of Stromboli off the...
  72. LONDON (AFP) ??” A group representing British troops who fought in Iraq demanded a pu...
  73. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” US anti-drug officials announced a crackdown on the illegal dist...
  74. SEOUL, (AFP) ??” South Korean flag carrier Korean Air unveiled a massive expansion pl...
  75. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” American Airlines has agreed to a 1.5 million dollar settlement ...
  76. BAGHDAD (AFP) ??” One US soldier was killed and a second wounded when attackers dropp...
  77. BEIJING (AFP) ??” Just 10 percent of China's HIV-AIDS cases know they have the diseas...
  78. QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) ??” At least eight people were killed in an attack on a parade...
  79. LONDON (AFP) ??” The British Barclay brothers abandoned their offer to buy Conrad Bla...
  80. MOSCOW (AFP) ??” Russia's new government began to take shape as Prime Minister-design...
  81. KARBALA, Iraq (AFP) ??” Almost 140 people were killed as Shiite Muslims came under at...
  82. NEW YORK (AFP) ??” Warner Music Group announced it will axe 20 percent of its 5,000 e...
  83. SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) ??” San Francisco Giants superstar Barry Bonds reportedly is amon...
  84. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” Senator John Kerry, the front-runner in the race for the Democra...
  85. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” A wave of new computer worms and viruses has been sweeping cyber...
  86. DUBLIN (AFP) ??” The Irish government launched a major media advertising campaign fou...
  87. ROME (AFP) ??” Around one-third of global meat exports have been hit by animal diseas...
  88. NEW YORK (AFP) ??” US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said a recent weakening...
  89. KARBALA, Iraq (AFP) ??” Three Iraqi Shiite Muslim leaders blamed the United States an...
  90. PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) ??” The United States sent a contingent of Marines to protect Ha...
  91. ATLANTA, United States (AFP) ??” Delta Airlines announced the acquisition of 32 regio...
  92. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” Bank of America said that it had been advised by Italian authori...
  93. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” US Senator John Kerry added Democratic primary victories in his ...
  94. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The Republican-controlled US Senate killed legislation that woul...
  95. ENGLEWOOD, United States (AFP) ??” Saying it was time to enter the next phase of his ...
  96. BRUSSELS (AFP) ??” Belgian brewer Interbrew and Brazil's Ambev announced they are joi...
  97. LONDON (AFP) ??” England scrum-half Kyran Bracken has announced his retirement from i...
  98. KARBALA, Iraq (AFP) ??” Thousands of Iraqi and Iranian Shiite Muslims took part in fu...
  99. TOKYO (AFP) ??” Japan's favourite monster Godzilla will bid farewell to the big scree...
  100. LONDON (AFP) ??” The dollar was at new three-month highs against the euro amid expect...
  101. GLASGOW (AFP) ??” Rangers striker Shota Arveladze is to undergo knee surgery after Su...
  102. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The United States has "clear intelligence" tying Abu Mussab al-Z...
  103. PHILADELPHIA, United States (AFP) ??” Walt Disney Company opened what promised to be ...
  104. RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) ??” Veteran leader Yasser Arafat bowed to pressure to regul...
  105. ARLON, Belgium (AFP) ??” The full sordid story of how four Belgian girls met their br...
  106. ST. LOUIS, United States (AFP) ??” The Boeing Company said that it had selected Pratt...
  107. BAGHDAD (AFP) ??” Iraqi overseer Paul Bremer announced a massive increase in border s...
  108. SAN PEDRO DEL PINATAR, Spain (AFP) ??” Dutch rider Max van Heeswijk won the first sta...
  109. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” John Kerry will make the 2004 presidential election a referendum...
  110. NEW YORK (AFP) ??” New York state law does not allow same-sex marriages, the state at...
  111. ANKARA (AFP) ??” Unheralded Turkish side Genclerbirligi captured another famous scalp...
  112. SCOTTSDALE, United States (AFP) ??” Third-seeded American Robby Ginepri of the United...
  113. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” Democratic presidential nominee Senator John Kerry launched his ...
  114. PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) ??” US and French troops staged a show of force in Haiti's capit...
  115. SANAA (AFP) ??” Security forces have captured one of the top leaders of the Al-Qaeda ...
  116. CAIRO (AFP) ??” Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak left for Rome at the start of a Euro...
  117. SOUTHAMPTON (AFP) ??” Southampton have named former Scotland and Dundee United strike...
  118. BEIJING (AFP) ??” China lifted isolation orders on two areas that had been stricken b...
  119. JAKARTA (AFP) ??” Indonesian environmental activists filed a complaint with police ag...
  120. FRANKFURT (AFP) ??” The European Central Bank ignored political calls for a reduction...
  121. NEW DELHI (AFP) ??” India's mobile phone industry which sells two million new connect...
  122. BEIJING (AFP) ??” China's new commerce minister has held talks with the US ambassador...
  123. LISBON (AFP) ??” Washington will not press the UN's nuclear watchdog to refer Iran to...
  124. LISBON (AFP) ??” Washington will not press the UN nuclear watchdog to refer Iran to t...
  125. LIVINGSTONE, Zambia (AFP) ??” UN AIDS chief Peter Piot called for political mobilisat...
  126. NEW DELHI (AFP) ??” The foreign ministers of India, Brazil and South Africa kicked of...
  127. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” President George W. Bush's election campaign came under fire for...
  128. MADRID (AFP) ??” India came from 0-2 down to defeat Malaysia 5-3 and achieve their fi...
  129. INDIANAPOLIS, United States (AFP) ??” Blaine Wilson will petition USA Gymnastics for ...
  130. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The United States rejected calls for an inquiry into the conditi...
  131. MANCHESTER, England (AFP) ??” Mikael Silvestre has said he will be fit following his ...
  132. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” International Monetary Fund chief Horst Koehler pressed Argentin...
  133. SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) ??” Attorneys for indicted BALCO Laboratories executives Victor C...
  134. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” Russian engineers secretly helped Iraq's long-range missile prog...
  135. JERUSALEM (AFP) ??” A Qassam rocket, makeshift devices normally used by the radical P...
  136. BEIJING (AFP) ??” Prime Minister Wen Jiabao pledged to help the country's millions of...
  137. TOKYO (AFP) ??” Japanese share prices are likely to rise in the coming week on the co...
  138. ABYAN, Yemen (AFP) ??” Security forces focused on intelligence and mediators rather t...
  139. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” American businesses added a meager 21,000 jobs in February, the ...
  140. MIAMI (AFP) ??” Chris Smith flirted with matching the PGA record of 59, but finished ...
  141. COLOMBO (AFP) ??” Sri Lanka's fragile peace process faltered with fears the country c...
  142. HANOI (AFP) ??” Human-to-human transmission of bird flu is a "possible explanation" i...
  143. TEHRAN (AFP) ??” Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has declined an Iranian invitation ...
  144. BAGHDAD (AFP) ??” US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz made a surprise return t...
  145. TUNIS (AFP) ??” Tunisia, with a quarter-final place at the African Nations Cup alread...
  146. MINA, Saudi Arabia (AFP) ??” A total of 244 Muslim pilgrims were trampled to death as...
  147. LIBREVILLE (AFP) ??” Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in a major oil-producing cou...
  148. DETROIT (AFP) ??” Puerto Rico's Ivan Rodriguez, who backstopped the Florida Marlins t...
  149. CANNES, France (AFP) ??” 2004 will be the year of a new generation of mobile jukeboxe...
  150. SEOUL (AFP) ??” The South Korean subsidiary of US auto giant General Motors posted a ...
  151. LONDON (AFP) ??” Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson was reported to be ready to ...
  152. JERUSALEM (AFP) ??” The head of Israeli military intelligence, General Aharon Zeevi, ...
  153. National Australia Bank chief executive Frank Cicutto resigned in the aftermath of th...
  154. MINA, Saudi Arabia (AFP) ??” Nearly two million Muslims jostled to "stone Satan", a d...
  155. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” US President George W. Bush submitted a 2.4-trillion-dollar elec...
  156. TAIPEI (AFP) ??” Taiwan stepped up measures to guard against smuggled poultry from Ch...
  157. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The Internet's most voracious worm ever appeared to wane after b...
  158. PARIS (AFP) ??” Shares in European travel and tourism were hit by the cancellation of...
  159. BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AFP) ??” Five Palestinians, two of them militant leaders, were ...
  160. ARBIL, Iraq (AFP) ??” Iraq's northern Kurdish region declared an official three-day m...
  161. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” Bowing to election-year pressure, US President George W. Bush sa...
  162. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” President George W. Bush asked Congress for 1.2 billion dollars ...
  163. BIZERTE, Tunisia (AFP) ??” Kenya finally ended a 32-year wait when their 3-0 win over...
  164. COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AFP) ??” Senator John Kerry looked poised to tighten his ho...
  165. EAGLE, United States (AFP) ??” Beleaguered NBA star Kobe Bryant skipped a court heari...
  166. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” US Secretary of State Colin Powell telephoned Greek Cypriot Pres...
  167. OSLO (AFP) ??” Divers inspected the wreck of a cargo ship, the Rocknes, which capsize...
  168. NEW YORK (AFP) ??” The dollar firmed against the euro and lagged against the yen as t...
  169. SYDNEY (AFP) ??” An Australian man who terrorised staff during a bank robbery dressed...
  170. JAKARTA (AFP) ??” Indonesia said that tests had shown it was suffering from the same ...
  171. LONDON (AFP) ??” British Prime Minister Tony Blair told parliament that an inquiry wo...
  172. LONDON (AFP) ??” Tottenham, frustrated by Premier League rules in their bid to sign L...
  173. BRUSSELS (AFP) ??” The European Union extended a ban on imports of Thai poultry and p...
  174. TUNIS (AFP) ??” Leeds United striker Lamine Sakho finally made his international debu...
  175. ARNHEM, Netherlands (AFP) ??” Dutch-Swedish chemical and drugs group Akzo Nobel poste...
  176. HOUSTON, United States (AFP) ??” Super Bowl hero Tom Brady began a whirlwind victory ...
  177. GENEVA (AFP) ??” The World Health Organisation (WHO) urged governments to watch out f...
  178. NAIROBI (AFP) ??” Prosecutors in the trial of four Kenyans accused of involvement in ...
  179. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The White House defended the pending probe into pre-war claims a...
  180. LONDON (AFP) ??” Major currencies remained rangebound in late trade, with the dollar ...
  181. BAKU (AFP) ??” A syndicate of international lenders signed a landmark agreement commi...
  182. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” US President George W. Bush has asked lawmakers to approve a 1.2...
  183. ARBIL, Iraq (AFP) ??” The death toll from twin suicide bombings in Arbil rose to at l...
  184. LONDON (AFP) ??” Queen Elizabeth II will welcome 200 women including Harry Potter cre...
  185. BERLIN (AFP) ??” Ten-man Werder Bremen scored twice in 60 seconds to defeat Greuther ...
  186. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The White House mounted a rare, election-year counterattack at o...
  187. PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) ??” A teenager was shot dead by police during a protest as a Car...
  188. COLUMBIA, United States (AFP) ??” Senator John Kerry tightened his hold on the Democr...
  189. TOKYO, (AFP) ??” A 19-year health study has shown men who eat fish regularly have a b...
  190. ISLAMABAD (AFP) ??” The founder of Pakistan's nuclear programme, Abdul Qadeer Khan, a...
  191. LONDON (AFP) ??” British Prime Minister Tony Blair was to defend in parliament his de...
  192. PARIS (AFP) ??” The French cosmetics group L'Oreal -- which owns brands like Lancome,...
  193. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” A contrite Janet Jackson apologized for the mishap during her Su...
  194. HONG KONG (AFP) ??” Passengers who turn down food on Cathay Pacific flights may want ...
  195. GENEVA (AFP) ??” Switzerland's federal prosecutor has opened an investigation into mo...
  196. NEW YORK (AFP) ??” The star witness against lifestyle guru Martha Stewart admitted he...
  197. LONDON (AFP) ??” England's World Cup-winning skipper Martin Johnson was re-appointed ...
  198. LISBON (AFP) ??” Benfica's new American international goalkeeper Zach Thornton said h...
  199. STOCKHOLM (AFP) ??” A Swedish animal protection inspector attempting to rescue 20 aba...