German Chancellor Angela Merkel, reflecting on "a moving, in some parts breathtaking weekend behind us," said Monday that all EU countries could help to accommodate the human tide from the Middle East...

France's president said today the country will send reconnaissance planes over Syria beginning Tuesday to help in the fight against the Islamic State group. President Francois Hollande said...

The influx of migrants that saw more than 14,000 people flow into Austria from Hungary over the weekend at the main border point between the two countries appears to have ebbed, at least for...

Lightning has killed 22 people, mostly farm laborers working in fields, across the south eastern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, officials said Monday. The fatalities occurred Sunday evening when...

LION KILLED-HUNTER MINNEAPOLIS — The U.S. dentist whose killing of Cecil the lion fueled a global backlash emerges for an interview in which he disputes some accounts of the hunt, expresses...

A candidate running for Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper's party capped off a bad week for the party by apologizing for being caught on video urinating in a coffee cup while working as an...

The death toll from a wooden boat that capsized last week with Indonesian migrant workers off Malaysia's west coast has risen to 61, an official said Monday. Another 20 Indonesians have been...

Dozens of white balloons drifted over Vancouver's harbour to honour the young Syrian boys whose deaths at sea sparked worldwide outrage at the refugee crisis. The boys' aunt, Tima Kurdi,...

The Vatican will shelter two families of refugees who are "fleeing death" from war or hunger, Pope Francis announced Sunday as he called on Catholic parishes, convents and monasteries across Europe to...

Authorities in Cyprus say they have rescued 114 people believed to be refugees fleeing war-torn Syria after their fishing boat issued a distress call some 74 kilometres off the east Mediterranean...