The Vatican isn't ruling out that Pope Francis might chew coca leaves — or at least sip tea made from them — to fend off altitude sickness when he arrives in Bolivia next...

The young college student who killed 38 tourists in a Tunisian seaside resort was in a jihadi training camp in western Libya at the same time as the two attackers who hit the National Bardo Museum in March, a top security official said today. The revelation confirms repeated fears that the strong presence of the Islamic State group in neighbouring Libya has become a direct threat to Tunisia, the only democracy to emerge from the Arab Spring uprisings. ...

A mass of hot air moving north from Africa is bringing unusually hot weather to Western Europe, with France the next in line for a scorching day. Forecasters said southern France could see...

It's crunch time for Greece, with the European part of its international bailout expiring Tuesday and with it any possible access to the remaining rescue loans it contains that it needs to pay its...

The European Union has agreed to end mobile roaming charges within two years and allow travelers to pay the same price for calls, text messages and data anywhere in the 28 EU nations. The deal...

A young Swedish woman who sued her former Wall Street executive boss over lurid allegations of sexual conquest, betrayal and stalking was awarded $18 million by a federal jury Monday. Hanna...

SUPREME COURT-EXECUTION DRUG WASHINGTON — A deeply divided Supreme Court upholds the use of a controversial drug in lethal-injection executions, even as two dissenting justices say for the...

Greece has entered the twilight zone. Out of money, cut off by its creditors, its banks shut, the struggling country will vote Sunday on whether to accept painful cutbacks in return for...

A passenger on one of Japan's high-speed bullet trains tried to set himself or herself on fire Tuesday, causing smoke to fill the carriage and forcing the train to stop, Japan's transport ministry...

Anxious Greek pensioners swarmed closed bank branches today in the hope of getting their pensions, while queues formed at ATMs as they gradually began dispensing cash again following the imposition of...