Two former top NASA officials unveiled plans Thursday to sell manned flights to the moon by the end of the decade, in an announcement 40 years after the last human set foot there. Spaceflight, long

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Ghanaians endured long waits and delays in some areas to vote in a tight presidential election Friday as the country sought to make good on its reputation as an example of stable democracy in West

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A strong quake centred off north-eastern Japan shook buildings as far away as Tokyo on Friday and triggered a one-metre tsunami in an area devastated by last year's Fukushima disaster, but there were no reports

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UN climate negotiators on Friday locked horns on the final day of talks in Doha to halt the march of global warming, deeply divided on funding for poor countries and extending the greenhouse gas-curbing Kyoto

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Thousands of Romanians rallied in favour of the leftist government coalition in the southern town of Craiova on Friday, the last day of a lacklustre political campaign ahead of Sunday's parliamentary election. The Social Liberal

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Employees at Spain's historic luxury hotel chain Paradores de Turismo began a series of strikes Friday over job cuts at the state-owned company. Founded in 1928, Paradores lodges travellers at castles, palaces, monasteries and other

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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Friday defended new laws which opponents say will be used to stifle dissent, underlining his allegiance to President Vladimir Putin after talk of a rift. In a live interview

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The Maldives government repossessed the country's main airport from an Indian firm Friday and agreed on a three-week transition period after a dispute that sparked a diplomatic crisis with its neighbour. The administration of President

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Egyptian opposition leaders rejected a national dialogue on Friday that the Islamist president had proposed as a way out of a crisis that has polarised the nation and provoked deadly clashes on the streets. Opponents

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Germany is to make deportation mandatory for foreign-born Salafists convicted of ideological acts of violence, the country's interior minister said Friday. Hans-Peter Friedrich and state ministers agreed at talks in Rostock that immigration officials would

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