PARIS - French ministers disclosed their personal wealth for the first time on Monday, in a move President Francois Hollande hopes will restore confidence in his scandal-hit Socialist government. The revelations - which aim to help turn the page on a damaging scandal over tax fraud charges laid ...

Some Afghan forces that are being trained by the US military to take over the mission by 2014 have been found dealing drugs to American soldiers, according to a report.Judicial Watch, a conservative US watchdog group, found that that between January 2010 and December 2011, the Army investigated 56 ...

The public will be able to see details of crimes which happen near hotspots such as nightclubs, parks and shopping areas from Tuesday, the Home Secretary has said.Theresa May said the crime-mapping website will be extended to show crimes which happen “near a range of public places”.It ...

PARIS - The ocean’s deepest volcanic vents, kilometres below the surface, are teeming with life forms never before seen that thrive near super-hot underwater geysers, according to a new study.Eyeless shrimps and white-tentacled anemones were photographed bunched around cracks in the ocean ...

MADRID (AFP) - Spain's scandal-hit royals revealed their detailed income for the first time Wednesday, showing King Juan Carlos received a salary plus expenses of 292,752 euros ($382,600) in 2011.The 73-year-old king's state grant of 140,519 euros was supplemented by 152,233 euros to cover expenses ...

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT NEW YORK - Even as Nato bombed Libya, a group of Americans offered to make Col Muammar el-Qaddafi their client - and charge him a hefty consulting fee. Their price: a $10 million retainer before beginning negotiations with the Libyan leaders representatives, according to a ...

NEW YORK (AFP) - Recordings of the full exchanges between ground control, pilots and military authorities during the terrifying chaos of the 9/11 hijackings were made public for the first time Thursday. While portions of the audio recordings have circulated before, the document published by the ...

SCIENTISTS say they have found a new way to predict lung cancer - by looking at a persons toenail clippings. Experts at the University of San Diego in California have found that measuring nicotine levels in clippings can give a fairly accurate idea of future risk. Slow-growing toenails provide a ...

LAHORE The suicide bomber who rocked the city on Tuesday night leaving 16 dead and scores injured belonged to North Waziristan. He was fully trained but badly failed in achieving his targets, official source said. They said during the investigation it had been established that some hired criminals ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - US researchers have found a drug-free way to block fearful memories, opening up the possibility of new treatment approaches for problems such as post traumatic stress disorder, they reported on Wednesday. The findings in people build on studies in rats that showed that ...

SCIENTISTS at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and the University of California, San Francisco have developed and experimentally tested a technique to predict new target diseases for existing drugs. The researchers developed a computational method that compares how ...

GALILEO knew he had discovered a new planet in 1613, 234 years before its official discovery date, according to a new theory by a University of Melbourne physicist. Professor David Jamieson, Head of the School of Physics, is investigating the notebooks of Galileo from 400 years ago and believes ...

SCIENTISTS at the Department of Genetics at the University of Leicester, where the revolutionary technique of genetic fingerprinting was invented by Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, are developing techniques which may one day allow police to work out someone's surname from the DNA alone. Doctoral ...

HUMAN ballads, bird songs, and croaky frog serenades are all controlled by a common brain circuit that first appeared in animals hundreds of millions of years ago, a new paper reveals. The finding is based on a study of toadfish and their close relatives midshipman fish, which both use their ...

LONDON (AFP) - Britain's top judges are to get a new outfit, doing away with their traditional wigs and introducing colour-coded robes which one critic likened to costumes from the hit space show Star Trek. The new robes, to be worn by Appeal Court and High Court judges hearing civil cases from ...