Left-wing Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was seeking backing for a harsh new austerity package from his party Friday to keep his country in the euro — less than a week after urging Greeks...

Burger King has long been providing quick meals. PopeFrancis has now used it for a quick change. With hundreds of thousands of Catholic faithful waiting, Pope Francis needed a...

POPE-SOUTH AMERICA SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia — Pope Francis has cast himself as the spiritual and political leader of the world's oppressed with his mea culpa for the crimes of the Catholic...

European Union ministers failed Thursday to agree on relocating 40,000 of the refugees making risky boat trips from North Africa to Italy and Greeceand will try again later this month to broker a...

Greece has submitted a 13-page set of proposals to its European creditors that is intended to act as a foundation to free up a new three-year, 53.5-billion euro bailout package to save the nation from...

Greece finally met a deadline that counted on Thursday, delivering a series of sweeping proposals to its creditors before midnight to set off a mad rush toward a weekend deal to stave off a...

The choices Thursday in London: take a hike, ride a bike, try to find a bus you like. Millions of commuters jammed buses, rented bicycles or simply walked for miles as a 24-hour strike shut down...

Police in Maryland have accused a man of using a selfie stick to record videos of the woman who lived above him. According to police, 60-year-old Donald F. Beard attached a camera to a long metal...

Greece's government was racing Thursday to finalize a plan of reforms for its third bailout, hoping this time the proposal will meet with approval from its European partners and stave off a...

The number of Syrians who have fled abroad since the outbreak of civil war in their country has risen to more than 4 million, the largest number from any crisis in almost 25 years, the United Nations...