President Barack Obama today pledged all possible tools — military, intelligence and economic — to defeat the Islamic State group, but acknowledged the extremist group has taken root in...

 Volkswagen said Tuesday that 1.8 million commercial vehicles are among those affected by the emissions-rigging scandal, while Spanish unit SEAT said 700,000 of its cars were fitted with the...

A Czech opposition group has called for nationwide referendums on whether the nation should quit the European Union and reject last week's EU decision to redistribute 120,000 asylum-seekers among its...

More than 500,000 migrants have made it into Europe via the sea since the start of this year, the International organisation for Migration said. It has been calculated that 2,892 migrants died in...

An international press freedom group chastises the European Union for being too lenient in its treatment of media abuses in member state Hungary and accuses it of economic bias in defending the rights...

Paul Walker's daughter sued Porsche for wrongful death Monday, claiming the sports car that her father was in when he was killed suffered from numerous design defects. The lawsuit filed...

UNITED NATIONS SUMMIT UNITED NATIONS — Vladimir Putin played it cool, Barack Obama was earnest but firm and Iran's president walked in smiling. World leaders glided through the opening day...

An extreme sports star skydiving for the opening ceremony of a golf event in Northern California died when he struck a tree Monday, authorities said. Placer County Sheriff's Capt. Dennis Walsh...

U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin sharply disagreed Monday over the chaos in Syria, with Obama urging a political transition to replace the Syrian president but Putin...

World leaders laid out sharply differing views of the Syrian conflict and the world at large Monday, opening a U.N. global gathering that aims to wrestle with other crises like a historic flood of...