Commuters are facing a day of disruption after a strike shut down the London Underground system for a second time this summer. Unions walked off the job amid a dispute about how to...

PRESIDENTIAL RACE-REPUBLICAN DEBATE WASHINGTON — The narrowing of a vast field of Republican presidential hopefuls begins in earnest Thursday with the first debate of the 2016 campaign. At...

A jury on Wednesday awarded nearly $12 million to an Indianola woman who said in a lawsuit that her former co-workers at a toy company subjected her to graphic sexual comments and other...

Japan marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Thursday, with Mayor Kazumi Matsui renewing calls for U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders to step up...

Families aching for closure after their relatives disappeared aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 last year vented their deep frustration Thursday at conflicting signals from Malaysia and France over whether the finding of a plane part had been confirmed....

A professional hunter who helped an American kill a popular lion named Cecil in an allegedly illegal hunt in Zimbabwe said Wednesday that the case against him is "frivolous." Wearing...

Aviation experts in France are due to begin examining part of a plane wing that washed up on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion. It is believed that debris came from Flight MH370, which disappeared...

AP POLL-BLACKS AND POLICE WASHINGTON — A majority of U.S. blacks — more than three out of five — say they or a family member have personally experienced unfair treatment by the...

A diocese in central China has ordained the country's first Catholic bishop in three years in a potential sign of improvement in the long-strained relations between Beijing and the Vatican. The...

If a wing fragment found in the western Indian Ocean turns out to be part of missing Flight 370, experts say, there are probably other pieces of the aircraft that floated off rather than sinking to...