European creditors issued Greece with an ultimatum Monday, saying the country must accept a key condition in bailout talks by the end of the week or face having to meet its debt commitments on its own...

A court in the southern Spanish city of Granada has dropped charges against nine out of 10 Catholic priests accused of sexually abusing an altar boy. The charges - which included "sexual abuse...

The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah group has strongly denounced the Islamic State group's beheading of a group of Egyptian Christian hostages in Libya. In a speech to hundreds of his...

The eurozone's top official has effectively given Greece an ultimatum to request an extension to the country's bailout program. Greece has resisted an extension of the current...

French President Francois Hollande has asked for an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the deteriorating situation in Libya following the decapitation of Egyptian Copts. But...

The European Union's limited search and rescue resources contributed to the soaring death toll after four rubber dinghies carrying hundreds of migrants sent out an SOS in stormy weather in the...

Amusha, a 58-year-old woman from Iraq's Yazidi minority, last saw her daughter being driven away by militants of the Islamic State group. The fighters attacked Amusha's village last year, killed the...

International efforts to resolve the crisis in Libya after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi must forge agreement between the warring parties to forestall the emergence of a failed state that...

Homeless men and women lined up Monday off St. Peter's Square to take advantage of Pope Francis' latest charitable initiative: a free shave and shower for the least fortunate. Mauro Casubolo, 49,...

The man who gave the world Nutella, Michele Ferrero, will be buried on Wednesday in Alba, a small town in Northern Italy. Mr Ferrero was responsible for fruity and minty Tic Tacs, as well as...