Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso has retracted a comment he made this week suggesting Japan should follow the Nazi example of how to change the country's constitution, following complaints from...

Lindsay Lohan has completed her court-ordered stay in rehab and must continue therapy into late next year, a judge said Wednesday.   The "Liz & Dick" star must meet with a...

Author J.K. Rowling accepted an apology and a charitable donation Wednesday from a law firm which revealed she wrote a crime novel under a pseudonym.   The "Harry Potter" author...

The father of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden said on Russian television that he is grateful to the Kremlin for protecting his son.   Speaking on state Rossiya 24 television...

A prosecutor has asked Italy's highest court to uphold Silvio Berlusconi's tax fraud conviction and four-year jail sentence, but to reduce his ban on public office to three years from...

U.S. soldier Bradley Manning was acquitted of the most serious charge against him — aiding the enemy — but his convictions on espionage, theft and other charges in the biggest leak of...

The driver was on the phone with a colleague and apparently looking at a document as his train barreled ahead at 95 mph (153 kph) — almost twice the speed limit. Suddenly, a notorious curve was...

In word and deed during his trip to Brazil, Pope Francis put clergy and faithful alike on notice: Get energized, go out and spread the Gospel, give the Roman Catholic Church a more active role in...

Silvio Berlusconi's political fate is in the hands of Italy's highest court, which was hearing arguments Tuesday in the former premier's challenge to a fraud conviction.   The...

Massive explosions rocked a central Florida propane gas plant, sending seven people to area hospitals.   All of the workers at the plant were accounted for early Tuesday after...