The president of the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu appealed to a U.N. disaster conference Saturday for help as a powerful cyclone swept across his archipelago, driving painfully home the rising...

The UN special envoy to Libya said that all parties to ongoing peace talks would meet again on 19 March in Morocco for a "final, decisive phase of talks" after one side failed to show up for the...

A weekend soccer player in the Detroit area whose punch killed a referee has been sentenced to at least eight years in prison for involuntary manslaughter. The case against Bassel Saad has put a...

My sensation is that my time as Pope will not be long, probably between four and five years, and two have already passed, Pope Francis said in an interview to a Mexican television station on the day...

A global energy agency says the oil market has further to drop as supplies from the U.S. show no sign of slowing. The International Energy Agency, a watchdog that represents the world's main...

The North Atlantic island of Iceland has withdrawn its bid to join the European Union, with the government saying that its interests are best served outside the 28-nation EU. EU spokesperson Maja...

The head of the European Union's executive says talks between Greece and its European creditors over the country's reform plans are taking too long. EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker...

A Turkish official says the Coast Guard has fired on and stopped a migrant ship, detaining 337 mostly Syrian refugees who were hoping to illegally reach Italy. Gov. Ahmet Cinar of Canakkale...

Swedish prosecutors on Friday offered to question WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in London, potentially unlocking a stalemate in an almost five-year-old investigation into alleged sex...

BRITAIN-SURVEILLANCE LONDON — U.K. spies intercept Britons' online communications in bulk and keep personal data on large numbers of British citizens — but not enough to amount to...