Los Angeles schools have been closed as an unspecified threat is investigated, police have said. Officials would not specify the nature of the threat, which led to students being sent home and...

Pope Francis Pope Francis is urging governments consider granting a Holy Year amnesty to prisoners, find alternatives to incarceration and at the very least abolish the death penalty, in his annual...

Vatican prosecutors have launched 13 new investigations into suspected money-laundering this year, and currently have frozen some 11 million euros ($12.1 million) as part of beefed-up measures to...

Stunning video released Monday shows an angry man ramming his pickup truck through the lobby and into the front desk of an Oklahoma hotel as two women dive for safety at the last...

A suspected drink-driver was not so wise when he tried to hide from police - in a nativity scene, The Telegraph reports.   The motorist sought refuge among hay bales and the baby...

Saudi Arabia said Tuesday that 34 nations have agreed to form a new "Islamic military alliance" to fight terrorism with a joint operations center based in the kingdom's capital, Riyadh. The...

PRESIDENTIAL RACE-REPUBLICAN DEBATE WASHINGTON — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz enters Tuesday's Republican presidential debate with a burst of momentum, a robust campaign infrastructure, and a target...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is inviting world leaders to the United Nations on April 22 — Earth Day — to sign the landmark agreement to tackle climate change that was reached in...

Oil prices fell for a seventh straight session on Monday, coming close to 11-year lows, on growing fears that the global oil glut would worsen in the months to come in a pricing war between leading...

A Syrian caught in Pozzallo had text messages praising the Islamic State, include one that read “God is great, but Isis is greater,” Italian media are reporting. The 20-year-old was...