The United States and Syria found a lot of "common ground" on which to cooperate in the Middle East, the State Department's top Middle East official said after talks in Damascus.

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NASA launched a telescope Friday night that will search a slice of the Milky Way galaxy for Earth-like planets. The mission attacks a basic human question, said NASA Associate Administrator Ed Weiler: "Are we alone?" The Kepler spacecraft carries a telescope that will stare at 100,000 stars in the Cygnus-Lyra region of the Milky Way for more than three years.

A senior Vatican cleric defends a Brazilian archbishop's excommunication of people who helped a child have an abortion.

Lars Josefsson, the CEO of Swedish utility Vattenfall, says that storing carbon underground at coal power plants is a necessary technology in climate change abatement.

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Eight people, mostly police and soldiers, are dead after reportedly being lured to a booby-trapped car in north-western Pakistan.

Police in Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur fire tear gas to disperse a rally against the use of English in the country's schools.

President Barack Obama will visit Turkey "in a month or so", says US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on a visit to Ankara.

Psychiatrists use "party drug" to treat veterans suffering post traumatic stress disorder.

Confidence among investors as a whole is a key factor in determining how the market behaves, economists say; when investors collectively lose confidence in the market, it is more likely to drop. In fact, confidence is an example of an "animal spirit," a term referring to the psychological factors that move the market.

Prince Charles has sent a condolence message to the family of a wealthy British couple who ended their lives together at a euthanasia clinic in Switzerland, according to media reports.

Russian media pokes fun at the US secretary of state over a translation error on a gift she presented to the Russian foreign minister.

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Afghanistan's president says he now accepts polls must be delayed to August, but insists he will remain in office until then.

Italy's hardline immigration policies under fire

One in three people with type 2 diabetes are given pills too soon, rather than adopting lifestyle changes, research suggests.

Iran would consider a US invitation to a conference on Afghanistan later this month, a government spokesman says.

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad says he is resigning to pave the way for a national unity government.