Italian navy officials say they have recovered 217 bodies from the hull of a migrant ship that sank off Libya last year in a tragedy that sparked the EU to beef up Mediterranean rescue...

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter are marking their 70th wedding anniversary. The former U.S. president and first lady married on July 7, 1946, in their small hometown of Plains, Georgia. Jimmy Carter,...

This is the main news as reported by the Associated Press on 6 July...

Cooling towers, blast furnaces and coking coal. The grit and humor of steelworkers heading to early-morning shifts. That was Motherwell before the steelworks closed and the "Steelopolis" of Scotland...

The Justice Department's investigation into Hillary Clinton's email setup has been formally closed without any criminal charges, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Wednesday. The...

A pair of 'cruel and pitiless' lesbian killers who Googled 'can wives be in prison together' have been jailed for life today for battering two-year-old Liam Fee to death and trying to blame the murder...

Lionel Messi and father sentenced to 21 months for tax fraud but will not have to go to prison .   This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly....

Human Rights Watch is warning that European Union measures on curbing the flow of migrants from Libya to the bloc risk condemning asylum-seekers to "violent abuse" by armed groups in the North African...

The head of Britain's Iraq War inquiry released a damning report Wednesday on a conflict he says was mounted on flawed intelligence and executed with "wholly inadequate" planning. Retired civil...

Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to six years in prison for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius stood and faced Judge Thokozile Masipa as she announced the sentence in a South...