French investigators who found trace levels of the explosive material TNT on debris of an EgyptAir plane that crashed in May were prevented from further examining it, Le Figaro reported on Friday, a charge Egyptian officials denied. The origin of the traces remains unclear and Egyptian...

New York (AFP) - Pulitzer-winning US playwright Edward Albee, author of such masterpieces as "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" died at age 88, his personal assistant said in a statement. Albee died at his home in Montauk, New York after a short illness, according to his longtime personal...

Syria's ceasefire "will not hold out", a senior rebel official in Aleppo warned on Saturday, as air strikes and shelling continued in some places and promised aid deliveries failed to come through. The ceasefire is the result of an agreement between Russia, which backs Syrian President...

At least seven people were killed and dozens injured in a spate of bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Friday.  A military patrol struck a roadside bomb in al-Tarmiya, north of Baghdad, killing two soldiers and injuring four others, police officer Dham al-Mahmud told Anadolu...