Facebook has lost a crucial legal battle as a Paris court ruled the social network can be sued in France over its decision to remove the account of a French user who posted a photo of a famous...

British police say they have arrested a man wanted over the slaying of a British actress and her two children after he returned to London from Ghana. The Metropolitan Police force says detectives...

The World Health Organization says possible Zika vaccines are at least 18 months away from large-scale trials WHO assistant director-general for health systems and innovation Marie-Paule Kieny...

A mother-of-three chopped off her brother-in-law's genitals before handing them in as evidence at a police station in India, the Daily Mail reports.  The 32-year-old woman stunned officers...

Diplomats trying to secure a cease-fire for the civil war in Syria fell short early Friday in organizing a truce but agreed to try to work out details and implement a temporary "cessation of...

A brawl between rival drug gangs at an overcrowded penitentiary in northern Mexico turned into a riot Thursday, leaving 49 inmates dead and 12 injured in the country's deadliest prison melee in...

MEXICO-PRISON MONTERREY, Mexico — A prison riot that left 49 inmates hacked, beaten or burned to death opened searing questions about gang rule, extortion and human rights violations in...

Strapped with a booby-trapped vest and sent by the extremist Boko Haram group to kill as many people as possible, the young teenage girl tore off the explosives and fled as soon as she was out of...

A 94-year-old former SS sergeant went on trial Thursday in western Germany on 170,000 counts of accessory to murder, based on accusations that he served as a guard in the Auschwitz death camp as...

NATO's European commander on Thursday ordered three warships to move immediately to the Aegean Sea to help end the deadly smuggling of migrants between Turkey and Greece. Jens Stoltenberg, the...