WASHINGTON — Diplomatic triumph or travesty, America's relationship with one of its most intractable foes took two giant leaps forward this weekend when Iran released four Americans in a...

The world's political and business elite are being urged to do more than pay lip service to growing inequalities around the world as they head off for this week's World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski...

Blizzards battered parts of Eastern Europe on Sunday, forcing roads to close, trains and flights to be cancelled and producing power outages. The snow blanketed parts of Romania, Serbia, the...

Pope Francis is making his first visit to a synagogue as pope, greeting Rome's Jewish community in the city's main synagogue in a show of interfaith friendship at a time of religiously-inspired...

A man died in a French hospital Sunday after taking part in a drug trial for a painkiller based on a compound similar to cannabis, and five other participants remain hospitalized. The Rennes...

The U.N. nuclear agency certified Saturday that Iran has met all of its commitments under last summer's landmark nuclear deal, crowning years of U.S.-led efforts to crimp Iran's ability to make atomic...

UNITED NATIONS-HUMANITARIAN FINANCING CRISIS UNITED NATIONS — An estimated $40 billion is needed annually to help the rapidly growing number of people needing humanitarian aid as a result...

An ex-prosecutor is expected to testify that he promised Bill Cosby would never be charged over a 2005 sex-assault complaint, but a judge must decide if that constitutes an immunity...

Taiwan elected Tsai Ing-wen as its first female president Saturday, handing her pro-independence party its first majority in the national legislature and rejecting the China-friendly party that has...

Iranian state television announced Saturday that the government had freed four dual-nationality prisoners, and a person close to Iran's judiciary confirmed to The Associated Press that Washington...