The feared drowning of 400 migrants in a shipwreck this week in the Mediterranean Sea - one of the deadliest such tragedies in the last decade - raised alarms Wednesday amid an unprecedented...

FINLAND-NOKIA-ALCATEL-LUCENT HELSINKI — Nokia has agreed to buy the ailing French telecom company Alcatel-Lucent through a public exchange of shares in France and the United States, in a...

Police arrested a man who steered his tiny aircraft onto the lawn of the U.S. Capitol, which houses Congress, after flying through restricted airspace around the National Mall Wednesday. The...

Adding to angry comments about the Pope Francis' description of the Ottoman-era killing of Armenians as genocide, Turkey's prime minister said Wednesday that the pontiff has joined "an evil front"...

An Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jewish news website has cut Kim Kardashian — one of the world's most photographed women — from a photo taken of her in Jerusalem this week. The original...

The issue of holding bishops accountable for failing to protect children from sexual deviants arrived squarely on Pope Francis' agenda Wednesday as his point-man on sex abuse raised the case of a...

Official figures show that Greece fell well short of its budget deficit reduction targets last year, a development that's likely to add pressure on the Greek government during tortuous talks with...

Lufthansa says that cleanup workers have removed 80 percent of the debris from the site of a plane crash last month in the Alps that killed 150 people. Lufthansa representative Carsten Hernig...

A woman who operated a church at her suburban Dallas home has been arrested for allegedly helping starve a 2-year-old boy to rid him of a "demon," then holding a resurrection ceremony shortly after he...

Europe's economic outlook is finally beginning to brighten a little. But don't expect European Central Bank head Mario Draghi to sound all that excited when he takes the stage Wednesday for his next...