About 35 African migrants, including at least one rescued at sea from an overcrowded wooden boat, are among the top prize winners of Spain's Christmas lottery, according to the owner of the lottery...

Beijing police tightened security around a bar and shopping area popular with foreigners on Thursday as embassies issued warnings their citizens to be on guard for possible threats against...

China, Egypt and Iran top the list of the world's leading jailers of journalists in a new annual report by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. Eritrea, Ethiopia and Turkey also...

LATIN AMERICA-LEFTIST RETREAT CARACAS, Venezuela — After a decade on the advance, the left in South America is in retreat amid an economic storm of the likes the region hasn't seen in...

Libya's U.N. ambassador said Wednesday his country will hold off asking nations like the United States and Britain to intervene with airstrikes against the growing presence of the Islamic State group...

British Prime Minister David Cameron will look into claims that U.S. officials prevented a British Muslim family of 11 from flying to Disneyland for a planned holiday. The issue is sensitive...

Squeezed into a narrow room under piles of debris for 67 hours, a young man was saved by a door that trapped his foot but gave him space to survive. Rescuers on Wednesday pulled him from the massive...

It's the kind of poll result you'd see in a North Korean election or Saddam Hussein's Iraq: Thailand's military-ruled government says 99 percent of the country's people are happy with its performance...

An airplane cleaner at Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen airport has died of injuries suffered Wednesday in an explosion aboard an aircraft, a Turkish news agency said. The cause of the blast, which also...

A Libyan 45-year-old researcher was arrested in Palermo this morning for inciting terrorist activities. The woman, Italian media said, had contacts with foreign fighters and carried out propaganda for...