DEATH ROW INMATE-ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — A man who spent nearly 30 years on Alabama's death row walks free two days after prosecutors acknowledged that the only evidence they had...

Pope Francis presided over the solemn Easter Vigil service Saturday night amid mounting Vatican concern for modern-day Christian martyrs whose deaths have dominated this Easter season. Francis...

          The crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 in France has heaped intense pressure on Lufthansa's CEO Carsten Spohr, who in less than a year at the...

FRANCE-PLANE-CRASH PARIS — The co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings flight repeatedly sped up the plane as he used the automatic pilot to descend the A320 into the Alps, the French air...

Pope Francis, presiding at the traditional Good Friday Colosseum procession, decried what he called the "complicit silence" about the killing of Christians. The evening, torch-lit ceremony at the...

The California attorney general says a San Diego man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for operating a "revenge porn" website and charging victims to remove the images. Attorney General...

A man whose family reported him missing at sea more than two months ago was found floating on the overturned hull of his sailboat 300 kilometres off the North Carolina coast on Thursday, the US Coast...

Britain's economy may be growing, but the main televised leaders' debate of its election was held in the shadow of the Great Recession. The economy, and the economic effects of immigration,...

OBAMA-IRAN NUCLEAR TALKS WASHINGTON — After securing a surprisingly broad and detailed framework agreement with Iran, President Barack Obama must now subject his signature foreign policy...

Capping exhausting and contentious talks, Iran and world powers sealed a breakthrough agreement Thursday outlining limits on Iran's nuclear program to keep it from being able to produce atomic...