A solar-powered plane took off from Japan early today to attempt a five-day flight over open water to Hawaii, the eighth leg of its bid to fly around the world without fuel. Its long wings...

ESCAPED PRISONERS MALONE, New York — The second of two convicted murderers who staged a brazen escape three weeks ago from a maximum-security prison in northern New York state was shot and...

Hundreds of thousands of people on Sunday packed gaypride events across the U.S. from New York to San Francisco, with overall attendance expected in the millions for what amounted to a...

A small plane crashed into a house Sunday evening, killing three people on board, police said, but residents managed to flee as fire engulfed the home. The Beechcraft BE36 aircraft crashed into...

Greece's five-year financial crisis took its most dramatic turn yet, with the cabinet deciding after an 8-hour session that Greek banks would remain shut for six business days and restrictions would...

Investigators are searching for one or more accomplices in an attack on a luxury hotel in a Tunisian beach resort that killed at least 38 people, some of them sunbathers on the beach, an official said...

A coach driver has died and a pupil is in intensive care after a schoolbus crashed in Belgium with 34 pupils on board.    The children were travelling from Essex to Cologne in...

Police wearing masks escorted the man accused of beheading a businessman to the suspect's home in southeastern France on Sunday to try to find his passport to determine if he traveled abroad, a...

The European Central Bank granted no increase Sunday in emergency credit to Greek banks, leaving the country under increasing pressure a day after the government threw Greece's bailout negotiations...

EPISCOPAL CHURCH-BISHOP SALT LAKE CITY — The Episcopal Church elects its first African-American presiding bishop during the denomination's national assembly. Bishop Michael Curry will now...