The death toll in a rubber slipper factory fire in a suburb of the Philippine capital climbed to at least 45 on Thursday with another 26 people still missing in the gutted building and...

The British government has released previously secret letters written by Prince Charles to government officials - letters that were the subject of a lengthy legal battle that...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered his defense chief executed with an anti-aircraft gun for complaining about the young ruler, talking back to him and sleeping during a meeting presided over by...

The eurozone economy grew at its fastest rate for nearly two years during the first three months of 2015 thanks to a raft of favorable conditions such as the sharp fall in oil prices, official figures...

An Amtrak passenger train headed to New York City derailed and tipped over in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, tearing the cars apart and killing at least five people. Scores of passengers...

Some Vienna pedestrian traffic lights are suddenly not only red or green. They're also gay or straight. And Austria's right-wing Freedom Party is livid. Over the past few days, the city...

RUSSIA-UNITED STATES MOSCOW - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet in Sochi Tuesday with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, for talks on ongoing unrest in Ukraine, Russian news...

Greece completed a 757 million-euro ($844 million) debt payment to the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday despite a cash shortage in government coffers in Athens. Greece's government has...

The European Union is seeking a U.N. Security Council resolution within days to allow aggressive action to hunt down people-smugglers in the Mediterranean and destroy their boats, a senior EU official...

Emboldened by his party's election triumph, Britain's finance minister insisted Tuesday that his government has a "very clear mandate" to change the terms of the country's membership in the European...