Pope Francis is asking forgiveness for recent scandals that have hit Rome and the Vatican. The pope didn't cite specific examples in his off-the-cuff request for pardon at the start of his...

The Vatican spokesman denounced the leak of a private letter to Pope Francis by conservative cardinals complaining about the way his big family meeting is being run. But he reminded those...

Six decades can change things. Playboy — once considered racy, even obscene — has become a benign and perhaps even stuffy icon of an era when sex was ... well, sexy. With explicit...

PRESIDENTIAL RACE-DEMOCRATIC DEBATE LAS VEGAS — Front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton and her main rival Sen. Bernie Sanders clash over U.S. involvement in the Middle East, gun control and...

Scientists say they have extracted ancient DNA from the skull of a man buried in the highlands of Ethiopia 4,500 years ago that supports the theory that Eurasian farmers migrated into Africa...

Malaysia Airlines flight 17 was destroyed by a Buk surface-to-air missile over eastern Ukraine, the Dutch Safety Board said Tuesday as it presented the results of an official probe into the...

Playboy magazine will no longer publish photos of nude women as part of a redesign of the decades-old magazine, according to a news report Monday. Executives for the magazine company told The New...

Insurgents have fired two shells at the Russian embassy in the Syrian capital as scores of pro-government supporters gathered outside the compound to thank Moscow for its intervention in...

A man imprisoned for 28 years for the 1987 slayings of two people in Dallas was released Monday after his conviction based on now-discredited bite-mark analysis was overturned. Steven Mark Chaney...

A Rhode Island man who weighs nearly 800 pounds (363 kilograms) says he's determined to slim down and he dreams of becoming an actor one day. Steven Assanti, of Cranston, refers to himself now as...