An Internet video released Friday purports to show an Islamic State group fighter beheading British hostage Alan Henning and threatening yet another American captive, the fourth such killing...

The pro-independence government of Catalonia said Friday it is examining possible legal arguments to persuade Spain's Constitutional Court to lift its provisional suspension of a planned secession...

From his stylish living room overlooking St. Peter's Square, Cardinal Walter Kasper doesn't come off as a figure at the center of one of the greatest storms swirling in Catholicism in...

 A former news editor at Britain's News of the World has pleaded guilty to conspiring to hack the phones of celebrities, politicians and royals. Ian Edmondson is the eighth person convicted...

World news in one minute: a brief snapshot of the major events around the world on 2 October...

Pope Francis convened his ambassadors from across the Middle East on Thursday for three days of meetings to find ways to better protect Christians targeted by Islamic militants and care for those who...

A man had part of his arm torn off by a suspected great white shark while surfing off the coast of Western Australia on Thursday, officials said. The man was surfing at Wylie Bay in the town of...

Hong Kong police warned of serious consequences if pro-democracy protesters try to occupy or surround government buildings, as they have threatened to do if the territory's leader doesn't resign by...

The European Union's incoming economy chief, Pierre Moscovici, vowed Thursday to be an impartial and tough enforcer of the bloc's deficit rules even though he failed to implement them as French...

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