At least nine people have been killed and many injured by a car bomb at a petrol station in Damascus, say activists.
The US Congress begins a new term and re-elects John Boehner as House speaker, with budget battles expected to resume in the coming weeks.
A friendly between AC Milan and an Italian lower division club is suspended as players walk off because of racist chants.
A US Senate committee reportedly looks into the contacts between the CIA and the makers of Zero Dark Thirty, a film about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden.
Vast numbers of cells that can attack cancer and HIV have been grown in the lab, and could potentially be used to fight disease.
An ambitious plan to update classic space trading game Elite has hit its funding target on the Kickstarter website.
A 2.1-billion year-old lump of rock that fell to Earth in Morocco is a new type of Martian meteorite, say scientists.
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معارك عنيفة بين المعارضة المسلحة والقوات الحكومية السورية قرب بعض المطارات المهمة شمالي البلاد.
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