Stockholm: A special corruption procecuter told AFP on thursday that several Nobel Science Prize Committees are being investigated for possible bribery. Special corruption prosecutor Nils Erik Schultz said he had launched a preliminary investigation. He said he was looking into...

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has ordered plans to be drafted for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention centre, the Pentagon says. A team was looking at moving inmates from the facility in a way that continued to protect...

Former senior defence official Theoneste Bagosora has been convicted of instigating Rwanda's 1994 genocide and sentenced to life in prison. Bagosora and two co-defendants were found by a UN tribunal to have led a committee that plotted the massacre of...

The oil producers' cartel Opec has agreed to make a record cut in output, slashing 2.2 million barrels per day from its current supply. Opec has made two other cuts since September, meaning it has cut a total of 4.2...

Paris: French President Nicolas Sarkozy is backtracking on flag-ship reforms, a year and a half after he came to power on a platform of sweeping changes, fearing the student protests and the party revolt will turn into a social explosion....