European Union leaders, faced with a staggering migration crisis and deep divisions over how to tackle it, managed to agree early Thursday to boost border controls to ease the influx and to send 1...

NASA has confirmed that a massive asteroid will zoom past Earth tomorrow, but reassured the world that it is not a threat. The space agency has spent the past few months debunking claims that a...

VW chief executive Martin WInterkorn has resigned over the emissions scandal. Here's the full statement from WInterkorn: "I am shocked by the events of the past few days. Above all, I am...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban says he will present a six-point plan for solving Europe's refugee crisis to EU leaders.  They include persuading Greece to hand over the...

The Egyptian president on Wednesday pardoned two journalists for Al-Jazeera English, state media and the lawyer of one of the reporters said, a dramatic development in a case that was widely condemned...

Jumping into the issues of the day, Pope Francis opened his visit to the United States with a strong call Wednesday for action to combat climate change, calling it a problem that "can no longer be...

European leaders are expected to soon begin arriving for this evening's emergency Summit on migration, called by EU Council President Donald Tusk. The EU leaders are expected to discuss...

The deeply-divided leaders of the European Union have been called to an emergency summit Wednesday to seek long-term responses to the continent's ballooning migrant crisis, a historic challenge that...

A Roman Catholic priest accused of travelling to Honduras to molest poor street children during missionary trips was convicted on Tuesday of several charges. Federal jurors convicted the Rev....

POPE WASHINGTON — The pope of the poor arrives for his first-ever visit to the world's wealthiest superpower denying he is a leftist and riding in a frugal little family car, windows rolled...