A former 18.6-kilogram cat dubbed Skinny has lost more than half of his weight to become the darling of a Dallas veterinary clinic. Dr Brittney Barton says the orange tabby she adopted in 2013...

GOP 2016-OBAMA ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — President Barack Obama unleashes a blistering and belittling rebuke of Republican White House hopefuls, calling their attack on his landmark nuclear...

The Boy Scouts of America on Monday ended its blanket ban on gay adult leaders while allowing church-sponsored Scout units to maintain the exclusion for religious reasons. The new policy, aimed...

House of Lords member John Sewel has requested a leave of absence while police and Parliament investigate his alleged drug use and sexual behavior. He was filmed and photographed in an...

North Korean officials warned the United States that another war on the Korean Peninsula would leave no Americans alive to sign a surrender document as the country marked Monday's anniversary of the...

Technical talks over Greece's third bailout in five years are poised to start in the next day or so as negotiators representing the country's creditors continued arriving in Athens Monday. The...

A Chinese woman has died after being trapped in a shopping mall escalator, but not before pushing her 2-year-old son to safety. The horrific accident Sunday in the central city of Jingzhou was...

A woman was found decapitated along with two dogs in a blood-soaked Phoenix apartment, and police said they suspect her husband, who was found naked and severely wounded, in the grisly...

SATAN STATUE-DETROIT DETROIT — Several hundred people have attended a Mass at a Detroit Catholic church to protest an 8½-foot (2.6-meter)-tall bronze statue of Satan that hundreds of...

Several hundred people have attended a Mass at a Detroit Catholic church to protest an 8½-foot (2.6-meter)-tall bronze statue of Satan that hundreds of people also lined up to see. The...