Ukraine's acting President Olexander Turchynov has reinstated military conscription to deal with deteriorating security in the east of the country.   The move, announced in a decree,...

Riot police in Turkey have used tear gas and water cannon to prevent demonstrators defying a ban on protests on Istanbul's central Taksim Square.   The Anatolia news agency said several...

Northern Ireland republican leader Gerry Adams has spent the night in police custody after being arrested in connection with the 1972 murder of a mother of 10, Jean McConville.   Speaking...

The governor of Oklahoma called for an independent review of how the state conducts executions after a botched procedure that was expected to intensify the debate over how the United States handles...

British actor Bob Hoskins, whose varied career ranged from noir drama "Mona Lisa" to animated fantasy "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" has died aged 71.   A family...

Administrators at the center where Silvio Berlusconi will perform community service for a tax fraud conviction say the three-time former Italian premier will be assigned to work with Alzheimer's...

The Australian agency heading up the search for the missing Malaysian jet has dismissed a claim by a resource survey company that it found possible plane wreckage in the northern Bay of...

Tuesday was to have been the day to seal a deal on a Palestinian state alongside Israel. Instead, it became another missed deadline in two decades of negotiating failures. The gaps between Israeli and...

Demonstrators seeking more power for Ukraine's regions stormed the government building in Luhansk with baseball bats Tuesday, seizing control of a key site in one of the largest cities in...

Tornadoes flattened homes and businesses, flipped trucks over on highways and bent telephone poles to 45-degree angles as they barreled through Alabama and Mississippi on Monday, part of a storm...