CUBA-POPE HAVANA — Cuba announces that it is releasing 3,522 prisoners ahead of next week's visit by Pope Francis, the third time Cuba has granted inmates freedom before a papal...

Cuba announced Friday that it is releasing 3,522 prisoners ahead of next week's visit by Pope Francis, the third time Cuba has granted inmates freedom before a papal trip. The Council of State...

Hungary's PM has warned that people who cross the country's border illegally will be arrested from next week. Viktor Orban said migrants entering Hungary in their thousands in the past weeks had...

At least 107 people have been killed after a crane collapsed on to the Grand Mosque in the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca, the country's Civil Defence Authority has said. Some 238 people were wounded,...

Bells are tolling as New York City observes a moment of silence to observe the time the first plane struck the north tower of the World Trade Center 14 years ago. Families of...

Thousands of people hoping for asylum in western Europe are trekking to Vienna from Austria's main border crossing point with Hungary, after rail traffic was suspended due to overcrowding. The...

An Indian court has convicted 12 suspects for the bombings of seven Mumbai commuter trains that killed 188 people and wounded 800 others in July 2006.  Judge Yatin D. Shinde on Friday found...

ISIS has is making and using crude chemical weapons and has used them on at least four occasions on both sides of the Iraq-Syria border, according to a BBC report. A US official told the news...

CONGRESS-IRAN-NUCLEAR WASHINGTON — The hard-fought nuclear accord with Iran survived the U.S. Senate on Thursday, as Democrats overcame ferocious Republican opposition and delivered...

Five family members, including three children, were found dead in their lakeside home Thursday in what police said appeared to be a murder-suicide. Police in an upscale suburb of Minneapolis went...