Stories Collection

  1. FALLUJAH, Iraq (AFP) ??” Seventeen Iraqis were killed and six wounded in a US air str...
  2. MANCHESTER (AFP) ??” Alex Ferguson has moved quickly to put a protective shield aroun...
  3. BERLIN (AFP) ??” International Energy Agency chief Claude Mandil has called on oil pr...
  4. NOTTINGHAM, England (AFP) ??” India captain Sourav Ganguly said he expected his leade...
  5. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The US oil service company Halliburton said it has uncovered inf...
  6. NEW YORK (AFP) ??” President George W. Bush will accept the formal Republican party n...
  7. NEW YORK (AFP) ??” While God and gospel feature high on the Republican party's conven...
  8. NICE, France (AFP) ??” French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy rejected criticism of ...
  9. BANGUI (AFP) ??” President Francois Bozize of the Central African Republic issued a d...
  10. LONDON (AFP) ??” In an effort to find new ways to prevent breast cancer, two British ...
  11. VENICE, Italy (AFP) ??” John Travolta, playing a shambling alcoholic in his latest mo...
  12. NEW YORK (AFP) ??” Protesters were gearing up for one final chance to make some noise...
  13. PERPIGNAN, France (AFP) ??” Two French journalists taken hostage in Iraq are no longe...
  14. MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) ??” The upcoming National Hockey League season in North Americ...
  15. NEW YORK (AFP) ??” Basking in the glory of his national political debut, Arnold Schwa...
  16. DETROIT (AFP) ??” A US judge threw out terrorism charges against two Moroccan immigra...
  17. BESLAN, Russia (AFP) ??” Militants freed 26 women and toddlers but kept hundreds more...
  18. BEIRUT (AFP) ??” Beirut rejected a UN Security Council resolution calling for the wit...
  19. COTONOU (AFP) ??” As the small west African state of Benin prepares to repel a massiv...
  20. ISLAMABAD (AFP) ??” Pakistan sought more helicopters and air surveillance equipment f...
  21. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The US economy generated 144,000 jobs in August, the Labor Depar...
  22. MADRID (AFP) ??” More than four-fifths of the fuel remaining in the Prestige oil tank...
  23. WARSAW (AFP) ??” Poland will hand over another part of the zone it administers in Ira...
  24. BAGHDAD (AFP) ??” France held its breath for two of its reporters kidnapped in Iraq, ...
  25. LONDON (AFP) ??” The dollar was sharply higher against major currencies after US empl...
  26. LONDON (AFP) ??” Andrew Flintoff's 99 inspired England to a 70-run victory in the sec...
  27. VALKENBURG, Netherlands (AFP) ??” EU foreign ministers agreed to attend a key summit ...
  28. MIAMI, United States (AFP) ??” The Florida Marlins announced they had postponed their...
  29. BESLAN, Russia (AFP) ??” Russian President Vladimir Putin made a pre-dawn visit to pa...
  30. DOHA (AFP) ??” The militant Islamic Army in Iraq claimed responsibility for an assass...
  31. KUWAIT CITY (AFP) ??” Oil-rich Kuwait has earned some 11.5 billion dollars in oil inc...
  32. NEW YORK (AFP) ??” Defending champion Andy Roddick unleashed his second 245 kph (152 ...
  33. MAHMUDIYA, Iraq (AFP) ??” At least 44 people were killed in one of the bloodiest days...
  34. BAKU (AFP) ??” Wales' hopes of getting their World Cup qualifying campaign off to a f...
  35. PALERMO, Italy (AFP) ??” A late goal by substitute Luca Toni lifted Italy to a 2-1 wi...
  36. VIENNA (AFP) ??” England midfielder Steven Gerrard added to his team's World Cup mise...
  37. PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (AFP) — Malaysia has entered the second phase of its ambiti...
  38. LONDON (AFP) ??” Former England rugby captain Lawrence Dallaglio has backed England t...
  39. MBABANE (AFP) ??” Swazi King Mswati III, Africa's last absolute monarch, has picked a...
  40. CLAIREFONTAINE, France (AFP) ??” France's Arsenal attacker Thierry Henry urged his te...
  41. TOKYO (AFP) ??” At least 12 people were injured as Typhoon Songda brought torrential ...
  42. WEST PALM BEACH, United States (AFP) ??” Hurricane Frances slammed into Florida, ripp...
  43. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The best of times, or the worst of times. The US economy is the ...
  44. NEW YORK (AFP) ??” Serena Williams says she has no regrets about going against doctor...
  45. RIBBECK, Germany (AFP) ??” Want to buy a castle? Head for the former East Germany. ...
  46. MONTEVIDEO (AFP) ??” A second-half goal from Carlos Bueno gave Uruguay a 1-0 win over...
  47. AMMAN (AFP) ??” Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan Moasher announced the release of fo...
  48. ROME (AFP) ??” The management of troubled Italian carrier Alitalia was due to unveil ...
  49. JAKARTA (AFP) ??” Indonesian authorities said they would begin distributing smog mask...
  50. FALLUJAH, Iraq (AFP) ??” Seven US marines and three Iraqi national guards were killed...
  51. LONDON (AFP) ??” High fuel costs represent a "major threat" to airlines' profitabilit...
  52. LONDON (AFP) ??” Sterling continued to post very moderate rises after being largely i...
  53. CANONSBURG, United States (AFP) ??” Under pressure in the polls as he enters the fina...
  54. JOHANNESBURG (AFP) ??” Close to one million public sector employees will hold a strik...
  55. OSLO (AFP) ??” Nearly 60 years after Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl and five oth...
  56. ABUJA (AFP) ??” African Union-brokered peace talks for Sudan's western Darfur region ...
  57. GLASGOW (AFP) — Scotland take on Slovenia at Hampden Park on Wednesday in their...
  58. FRANKFURT (AFP) ??” Deutsche Telekom, the German telecommunications giant, indicated ...
  59. CALCUTTA (AFP) ??” Japan coach Zico has vowed there will be no let-up in the form whi...
  60. MOSCOW (AFP) ??” Thousands of people were due to rally in the Russian capital in an o...
  61. BAGSHOT, England (AFP) ??” England acting head coach Andy Robinson insisted he was th...
  62. SYDNEY (AFP) ??” Australian intelligence has identified at least 10 more nationals as...
  63. BAGHDAD (AFP) ??” At least one Iraqi was killed and three wounded, including a driver...
  64. PRAGUE (AFP) ??” A hand grenade went off in front of a casino in central Prague injur...
  65. JERUSALEM (AFP) ??” Israel is trying to block a deal between the United States and Jo...
  66. WARSAW (AFP) ??” US Secretary of State Colin Powell urged Washington's coalition part...
  67. TOKYO (AFP) ??” Japanese racehorse Haruurara who has failed to win a single race but ...
  68. NEW YORK (AFP) ??” The traders and businessmen had deserted Wall Street when the US a...
  69. BEIJING (AFP) ??” Residents in China's poverty-stricken countryside will soon benefit...
  70. KHARTOUM (AFP) ??” Sudan's army has called the UN resolution giving it 30 days to res...
  71. HONG KONG (AFP) ??” Global banking giant HSBC Holdings said its pretax profit rose 53...
  72. KHARTOUM (AFP) ??” Sudan's army has vowed to fight any foreign military intervention ...
  73. TOKYO (AFP) ??” Mitsubishi Motors' new auto sales in Japan continued to decline in Ju...
  74. NAJAF, Iraq (AFP) ??” Iraq's revered Shiite Muslim spiritual leader condemned bomb at...
  75. LAMPEDUSA, Italy (AFP) ??” Another small boat packed with exhausted Africans was esco...
  76. MOGUERIEC, France (AFP) ??” A French seaweed collector retained one of the world's le...
  77. NEW YORK (AFP) ??” US stocks pared their losses after a heightened terror alert for U...
  78. LONDON (AFP) ??” Sterling was firmer after what one economist described as "phenomena...
  79. LONDON (AFX) ??” After trading in negative territory for most of the day, the FTSE 10...
  80. DETROIT, United States (AFP) ??” Mercedes-Benz has launched an all-out offensive on q...
  81. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The United States condemned as "a heinous and barbarous act" the...
  82. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The United States said Sudan must move immediately to meet the r...
  83. LONDON (AFP) ??” Sven- Goran Eriksson's right-hand man Steve McClaren insists he will...
  84. NEW YORK (AFP) ??” The US-led coalition in Iraq failed to settle property disputes be...
  85. BAGHDAD (AFP) ??” A Baghdad police chief was killed and two policemen wounded when th...
  86. ISLAMABAD, (AFP) ??” Pakistan has arrested several people connected to a key Al-Qaeda...
  87. MONTREAL (AFP) ??” Mary Pierce, elevated to the status of seeded player after the wit...
  88. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” Much of the intelligence that prompted US authorities to raise a...
  89. BANGKOK (AFP) ??” The United Nations special rapporteur on health rights expressed hi...
  90. LONDON (AFP) ??” Prince William is holidaying on the exotic island of Rodrigues, clos...
  91. NEW YORK (AFP) ??” The Statue of Liberty, closed to the public since the September 11...
  92. CAIRO (AFP) ??” Egypt denounced as a provocation Israel's approval for 600 new settle...
  93. SAMAWA, Iraq (AFP) ??” Four Iraqis working for a French aid group in the southern cit...
  94. MOSCOW (AFP) ??” The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) returned to the st...
  95. DUBAI (AFP) ??” An Irish national has been killed in his office in the eastern sector...
  96. LOS ANGELES (AFP) ??” California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has settled a lawsuit...
  97. ASUNCION (AFP) ??” A shopping center owner, his son and four guards were indicted for...
  98. LONDON (AFP) ??” After rising to near six-week highs against the euro, the dollar eas...
  99. RIYADH (AFP) ??” An Irish national was shot dead in Riyadh in the first attack on a W...
  100. NEW YORK (AFP) ??” John Olerud is headed back to New York, this time with the Yankees...
  101. BAGHDAD (AFP) ??” Saboteurs blasted an Iraqi oil pipeline, fueling fears that sent oi...
  102. CANBERRA (AFP) ??” The future of an Australia-US free trade agreement (FTA) was in do...
  103. CANBERRA (AFP) ??” A long-awaited Australia-US free trade agreement (FTA) hit a new s...
  104. LONDON (AFP) ??” Hollywood stars Halle Berry and Sharon Stone put on a "purrfect" sho...
  105. US NAVAL BASE at GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (AFP) ??” An Algerian detainee at the Guantanam...
  106. PARIS (AFP) ??” World 100m champion Torri Edwards will learn this week whether she wi...
  107. PARIS (AFP) ??” New France coach Raymond Domenech called on Zinedine Zidane to be the...
  108. LONDON (AFP) ??” Under-fire England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson looks set to retain his...
  109. Tennis-ATP-USA CINCINNATI, United States (AFP) ? Defending champion Andy Roddick s...
  110. Cycling-GBR-Millar LONDON (AFP) ? British cyclist David Millar was handed a two ye...
  111. France-arts-photography PARIS (AFP) ? Veteran French photographer Henri Cartier-Br...
  112. Mideast GAZA CITY (AFP) ? Three Palestinians, including two children, were shot de...
  113. Oil-price NEW YORK(AFP) ? World oil prices plummeted from all-time highs after OPE...
  114. Mauritania-locusts NOUAKCHOTT (AFP) ? Swarms of the dreaded locusts invaded Nouakc...
  115. Forex-US NEW YORK (AFP) ? The dollar held in a narrow range as the market turned c...
  116. China-health-babies-milk BEIJING (AFP) ? A Chinese man was sentenced to eight years...
  117. Stocks-Europe LONDON (AFP) ? European stock markets climbed in early trading in th...
  118. Japan-telecom-NTT-results-company TOKYO (AFP) ? Japanese telecom giant Nippon Tele...
  119. Iran-traffic-pollution TEHRAN (AFP) ? Authorities in Tehran will this month stage ...
  120. Stocks-Europe LONDON (AFP) ? European stock markets rebounded in trading, shruggin...
  121. SAsia-weather AHMEDABAD, India (AFP) ? The monsoon death toll in South Asia climbe...
  122. Israel-environment-sea JERUSALEM (AFP) ? Israel's Mediterranean coastal waters are...
  123. Forex-London LONDON (AFP) ? The pound stumbled after the Bank of England put paid ...
  124. US-Iraq-prisoners FORT BRAGG, United States (AFP) ? A US Army investigator told a ...
  125. Forex-Europe LONDON (AFP) ? The dollar was stable against the euro while awaiting ...
  126. Baseball-USA-Alomar CHICAGO (AFP) ? For the second time in as many seasons, the Ch...
  127. Cycling-FRA-doping-Lelli PARIS (AFP) ? Italian cyclist Massimiliano Lelli from the...
  128. Yemen-unrest SANAA (AFP) ??” Yemeni troops were closing in on a rebel Muslim preac...
  129. Oly-2004-Tennis-boycott MONTREAL (AFP) ??” Rebel women tennis players have been ur...
  130. Fbl-USA-MLS-Donovan NEW YORK (AFP) ??” San Jose Earthquakes forward Landon Donovan...
  131. NEW YORK (AFP) ??” Worldwide crackdowns on alleged plotters followed a heightened US ...
  132. DENVER, United States (AFP) ??” Australia's Rod Pampling established the early tone, ...
  133. JAKARTA (AFP) ??” OPEC is on standby to increase oil supplies by up to 1.5 million ba...
  134. BAGHDAD (AFP) ??” At least 26 people were killed and 90 wounded during fighting pitti...
  135. NAJAF, Iraq (AFP) ??” US planes pounded the central Iraqi holy city of Najaf as inten...
  136. PARIS (AFP) ??” The OECD published a leading indicator for economic activity in indus...
  137. ADDIS ABABA (AFP) ??” A United Nations team that plans to assist the African force to...
  138. NAJAF, Iraq (AFP) ??” US planes pounded the central Iraqi holy city of Najaf as inten...
  139. FORT BRAGG, North Carolina (AFP) ??” A US military policeman described by Iraqi detai...
  140. PARIS (AFP) ??” Scientists say they have unearthed important new clues in the search ...
  141. ANKARA (AFP) ??” Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his government woul...
  142. WELLINGTON (AFP) ??” New Zealand is jostling to be at the head of a queue of nations ...
  143. BAGHDAD (AFP) ??” Ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was due to appear before a speci...
  144. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The world's biggest media group, Time Warner, has made a prelimi...
  145. LISBON (AFP) ??” A contingent of 128 Portuguese police will stay on in Iraq until the...
  146. MUNICH, Germany (AFP) ??” Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak is able to take walks again...
  147. TAIPEI (AFP) ??” Taiwan began digital television broadcasts across the island in what...
  148. PARIS (AFP) ??” World time-trial champion David Millar of Britain was placed under ju...
  149. FRANKFURT (AFP) ??” European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said he was c...
  150. NEW YORK (AFP) ??” The world's biggest media group, Time Warner, has made an offer fo...
  151. LISBON (AFP) ??” Portuguese firefighters were evacuating residents from outlying home...
  152. MAGNY-COURS, France (AFP) ??” Williams-BMW stand-in Marc Gene will treat this weekend...
  153. LONDON (AFP) ??” Russian teenager Maria Sharapova became the second youngest woman in...
  154. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The United States warned that Pakistan's move to conduct a key m...
  155. PASADENA, United States (AFP) ??” The US-European Cassini-Huygens space probe sent "m...
  156. OPORTO, Portugal (AFP) ??” The good ship Greece continued her charmed voyage through ...
  157. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” US forces in Iraq have failed to reduce the number of "hard-core...
  158. ANKARA (AFP) ??” Eighteen people died and 21 were injured when an earthquake hit a ru...
  159. LONDON (AFP) ??” The audit committee within oil group Shell was informed in some deta...
  160. LONDON (AFP) ??” A British soldier is to stand trial over the non-fatal shooting of a...
  161. LONDON (AFP) ??” There were will be no room at the Olymics for new Russian teen sensa...
  162. NEW YORK (AFP) ??” Sales of Bill Clinton's memoir, "My Life," which among other thing...
  163. JAKARTA (AFP) ??” Saddam Hussein should be seen as innocent until a court in Iraq fin...
  164. LONDON (AFP) ??” The dollar was dented by a sharply weaker than expected US jobs repo...
  165. LISBON (AFP) ??” Dallas was the soap opera of all soap operas in the 1980s but little...
  166. MADRID (AFP) ??” A 53-year-old woman died of heat exhaustion in southern Spain, becom...
  167. BAGHDAD (AFP) ??” The head of the Iraqi Special Tribunal prosecuting Saddam Hussein a...
  168. N'DJAMENA (AFP) ??” Negotiations between the warring parties in Sudan's western regio...
  169. MONTREAL (AFP) ??” Hollinger International underscored to Conrad Black that its propo...
  170. SOUTH HADLEY, United States (AFP) ??” Annika Sorenstam had the leaders in her sights ...
  171. LISBON (AFP) ??” World and European football bodies UEFA and FIFA must act to ensure ...
  172. LOS ANGELES (AFP) ??” Hollywood legend Marlon Brando, hailed as one of the greatest a...
  173. MAGNY-COURS, France (AFP) ??” Michael Schumacher set a blistering pace to top the tim...
  174. JERUSALEM (AFP) ??” A Palestinian child was killed in continued violence in the Gaza ...
  175. RIYADH (AFP) ??” Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Nuaimi this week questioned whether OPEC w...
  176. HARTFORD, United States (AFP) ??” France, without most of their best players, managed...
  177. KANSAS CITY, United States (AFP) ??” Buddy Rice led the Honda assault at Kansas Speed...
  178. LISBON (AFP) ??” To the winners go the spoils, to the losers - in at least half a doz...
  179. BANGKOK (AFP) ??” Europe's diplomatic bickering with Asia over Myanmar descended to a...
  180. BAGHDAD (AFP) ??” The US military said there was no credible evidence that a militant...
  181. JERUSALEM (AFP) ??” Israel was steeling itself for defeat at the hands of the world c...
  182. PARIS (AFP) ??” Four years ago France were literally masters of the football universe...
  183. DUBLIN (AFP) ??” Internet surfers will soon be able to listen live to the soothing so...
  184. LONDON (AFP) ??” Switzerland's Roger Federer confirmed his place as the greatest play...
  185. WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” A clutch of Hollywood stars, writers and directors including Woo...
  186. TBILISI (AFP) ??” Tbilisi officially complained to the Israeli authorities about dama...
  187. SOUTH HADLEY, United States (AFP) ??” American Meg Mallon turned the final round into...
  188. LEMONT, United States (AFP) ??” Canada's Stephen Ames captured the 4.8 million dollar...
  189. TOKYO (AFP) ??” Support for Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has hit a recor...
  190. LISBON (AFP) ??” Five members of the winning Greek team were included in the squad of...
  191. BAGHDAD (AFP) ??” Iraq's caretaker government delayed announcing a limited amnesty fo...
  192. LONDON (AFP) ??” European stock markets headed upwards in early afternoon trading, sh...
  193. LISBON (AFP) ??” Greece started out as 150/1 shots to be crowned European champions b...
  194. LONDON (AFP) ??” EasyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou confirmed that he was consideri...
  195. LONDON (AFP) ??” The dollar continued its slow drift higher against major currencies ...
  196. LONDON (AFP) ??” Just listening to Naomi Campbell is enough to get jet lag. In an i...
  197. MOSCOW (AFP) ??” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met North Korea's top leader ...
  198. JERUSALEM (AFP) ??” Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon who lost his parliamentary ma...
  199. LONDON (AFP) ??” English Premiership veteran Les Ferdinand said that he is determined...