In this era of Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and selfies, Britain's Parliament has taken a step back to the 1700s, choosing an artist armed with pencil and paper to offer insight into the general...

A powerful, magnitude 6.7 aftershock shook the Kathmandu area of Nepal on Sunday, a day after the massive earthquake devastated the region with 2,500 deaths and destroyed homes and...

SUSPECT DIES-BALTIMORE BALTIMORE — Thousands of protesters take to the streets to demand answers in the case of Freddie Gray, the largest rally since the 25-year-old black man died in...

At least 1,865 people are known to have died in a powerful earthquake in Nepal, with many more feared trapped under rubble, officials say. The 7.8 magnitude quake struck an area between the...

ARMENIA YEREVAN, Armenia - The presidents of Russia and France join other leaders at ceremonies commemorating the massacre 100 years ago of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks, an event which...

Fifteen bison that escaped from a farm were intentionally shot and killed Friday after they dashed past a group of police, crossed a major highway and ended up near some schools, authorities...

The Statue of Liberty and Liberty Island were evacuated Friday afternoon due to an unspecified security concern, the National Parks Service said.  The evacuation of the monument came shortly...

The United Nations' human rights chief on Friday accused Britain's tabloid newspapers of hate speech against immigrants. Zeid Raad al-Hussein, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, said...

The man accused of leading a boat that capsized off Libya last weekend, which led to the loss of more than 900 lives, appeared in court in Sicily today. Prosecutors want to charge Mohammed Ali...

The European Union's border agency Frontex is to send its ships further into the Mediterranean Sea in response to a deadly exodus of migrants leaving Libya. EU migration spokeswoman Natasha...