President Barack Obama will visit Alaska beginning Monday to press for urgent global action on climate change, with melting glaciers and rising seas as his backdrop. Yet he'll have to carefully...

Four men accused of involvement in the trafficking of 71 migrants found dead in a truck in Austria were brought before a Hungarian court on Saturday as prosecutors sought to keep them in...

Europe's rail system is at the heart of its open borders, a way for passengers to travel on some of the world's fastest and most sophisticated mass transit with no need for passports or even...

The Vatican has gotten embroiled in a modern-day, secular version of the Index of Banned Books. The Holy See press office had to set the record straight on Friday after the Italian media...

Rescue workers counted dozens of victims Friday from the increasingly desperate tide of humanity sweeping into Europe fleeing war, oppression and poverty. Austrian police said 71 people likely...

TROPICAL WEATHER SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Tropical Storm Erika is losing its punch as it drenches Haiti and the Dominican Republic, but it left devastation in its path, killing...

The woman who survived the on-air shooting that killed two TV journalists says she never saw the gunman walk up because the camera's bright light blinded her. Vicki Gardner was answering...

Prosecutors in Sicily detained 10 people on suspicion of smuggling and murder Friday for having allegedly crammed dozens of migrants into the airless hold of a boat where 52 bodies were...

The Vatican says its former ambassador to the Dominican Republic, who has been charged by church prosecutors with sexually abusing children in the Caribbean country, has died of apparent natural...

The number of migrants found dead in a truck abandoned on Austria's main highway to Hungary has risen to 71, the Interior Ministry said Friday. The count reported Friday by Interior...