A French court on Tuesday ordered a private clinic in Cannes to pay 400,000 euros ($450,000) each to two 20-year-old girls accidentally switched atbirth - part of a 1.88 million-euro ($2.1...

The failure of Costa Concordia's captain to promptly order an evacuation of the cruise ship was the sole reason 32 people died, prosecutors said in their final arguments in court...

Kayla Mueller, a 26-year-old American woman held by Islamic State militants, has been confirmed dead, her parents and the Obama administration said today. The White House said that Mueller's...

Germany's Foreign Ministry says talks between senior officials from Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine to pave the way for a summit of leaders in Minsk will resume in the Belarusian capital....

Disgraced former International Monetary Fund boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn told a French court today that he was unaware that women who participated in orgies at luxury hotels in Paris and Washington DC...

The Libya Herald has reported that supporters of the Islamic State claim to have taken over the small town of Nawfaliya, some 30 kilometres west of Ben Jawad. Ben Jawad is currently being used by...

UKRAINE DONETSK, Ukraine — An explosion and fire rocked a chemical plant outside a separatist stronghold in eastern Ukraine Monday. Rebels said it was hit by government shelling. No...

President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel rallied behind efforts to reach a long-shot diplomatic resolution to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine Monday, but they offered no...

An 11-year-old suburban girl has been charged with murder in the beating death of a 2-month-old who was staying overnight with her and her mother to give the baby's mom a break. The 11-year-old,...

Hundreds of people lit candles, shined flashlights and held their glowing cellphones toward the sky as they gathered in suburban Atlanta on Monday night to pray for the late Whitney Houston's...