Nearly two-thirds of Egyptian men admit to having sexually harassed women in the most populous Arab country, and a majority say women themselves are to blame for their maltreatment, a survey showed Thursday.

It was 63 years ago today that the United States detonated the very first atomic bomb. Three weeks later, the only two A-bombs dropped in warfare destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Many nuclear — and thermonuclear — bombs have been...

ENCOURAGING women to systematically examine themselves for signs of breast cancer does not reduce deaths from the disease, a major review of the evidence showed yesterday. Many women practise a rigid routine of checking their breasts on a regular basis...

CAPTURED as a 15-year-old on an Afghan battlefield, footage was released yesterday of Canadian Guantanamo prisoner Omar Khadr being interrogated by agents from his home country.

The Scottish Government has launched a campaign that tackles negative perceptions of older people.

ENVIRONMENT groups have hit out after a firm was fined just £3,000 for an oil slick that spread nine miles across the Firth of Forth.

MAX Mosley’s sadomasochistic session with five prostitutes was no “Carry On Spanking”-style caper, the High Court heard yesterday.

OMAR Hassan al-Bashir, the president of Sudan, was yesterday charged with genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur, his country’s western province.

The Taliban insurgents who attacked a remote American-run outpost near the Pakistan border on Sunday numbered nearly 200 fighters, almost three times the size of the allied force, and some breached the NATO compound in a coordinated assault that took...

THEIR deaths were portrayed as a Romeo and Juliet-style suicide pact. But Harry Horse, the acclaimed children’s author and illustrator, killed his terminally ill wife in a frenzied knife attack that left her with more than 30 wounds, it has...