The recapture of the ancient city of Palmyra by Syrian government forces scores an important victory over Islamic State fighters who waged a 10-month reign of terror there and marks the first major...

A bomb blast in a park in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Sunday has killed 70 people and wounded 300, a health official said. Many of the injured are in a critical condition, Salman...

A tough Siamese cat named Cupcake has survived eight days cooped up in a box after accidentally being sent through the mail by her British owners. Cupcake was in a box with an order of DVDs that...

A Brussels square that has been a memorial site turned agitated on Sunday when black-clad men started shouting slogans and carrying a banner with an expletive against the Islamic State...

Several hundred Iraqis and Syrians in the Idomeni border camp stood between protesters and police on Sunday, thwarting the protesters' efforts to march toward the fence separating Greece from...

Two arrests have been made in Britain after a seven-year-old girl died while using a bouncy castle at an Easter fair. The girl died after the inflatable castle at Harlow Town Park, 30 miles north...

Pope Francis is celebrating Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square, where tens of thousands of faithful are patiently enduring tight security to be near him. Police are checking the handbags...

Syrian government forces backed by Russian airstrikes drove Islamic State fighters from Palmyra on Sunday, ending the group's reign of terror over a town whose famed 2,000-year-old ruins once drew...

CAMBODIA-GRAB FOR RUBBER — Without warning in 2008, bulldozers razed land indigenous Bunong had cultivated for generations to make way for vast rubber plantations. Such land concessions are...

Pope Francis concluded a bleak week in Europe with a message of hope during an Easter Vigil service Saturday, saying darkness and fear must not prevail and "imprison" the world with...