Tornadoes flattened homes and businesses, flipped trucks over on highways and bent telephone poles to 45-degree angles as they barreled through Alabama and Mississippi on Monday, part of a storm...

South Korea's president apologized Tuesday for the government's inept initial response to a deadly ferry sinking as divers fought strong currents in their search for more than 100 passengers...

The last major stage of work has begun to ready the shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner for removal to land for scrapping.   On Monday, a first tank — the biggest and heaviest of...

The mayor of Ukraine's second-largest city was shot in the back Monday and pro-Russia insurgents seized yet another government building as tensions rose in eastern Ukraine ahead of a new round of...

A judge in Egypt sentenced to death 683 alleged supporters of the country's ousted Islamist president on Monday over acts of violence and the murder of policemen in the latest mass trial in Egypt...

Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II are the odd couple of modern Roman Catholicism. The avuncular John XXIII, who wanted to loosen up a hidebound Church, and the combative John Paul II, who...

Divers on Monday renewed their search for more than 100 bodies still trapped in a sunken ferry after weekend efforts were hindered by bad weather, strong currents and floating debris clogging the...

A crowd of pro-Russia activists has stormed the television broadcasting center in Donetsk, the regional capital of eastern Ukraine.   They are demanding the suspension of broadcasts of...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday called the Holocaust "the ugliest crime humanity has known in modern history," a rare acknowledgment by an Arab leader of Jewish...

South Korea's president accepted her prime minister's resignation Sunday over the government's handling of a deadly ferry sinking, although she didn't set a last day in...