The Salvadoran fisherman who says he drifted at sea for more than a year left a hospital Tuesday after treatment for the psychological and physical effects of his ordeal, and told reporters he...

Defiant protesters shouted "Glory to Ukraine" as burning tents lit up the night sky after thousands of riot police moved against the sprawling protest camp in the center of Kiev on...

Britain's Court of Appeal on Tuesday upheld the decade-old policy that judges may sentence people convicted of the most serious crimes to life in prison with no possibility of...

Pope Francis may be the head of the Vatican state, but he's not giving up the right to travel as just another Argentine citizen.   The leader of the Roman Catholic Church has...

The Arctic isn't nearly as bright and white as it used to be because of more ice melting in the ocean, and that's turning out to be a global problem, a new study...

Cyprus' president says any deal to reunify the ethnically split Mediterranean island nation has to be markedly different to one that was rejected by his Greek-Cypriot community a decade...

Italy's president asked the brash young leader of the Democratic Party, Matteo Renzi, to try to form a government Monday after Renzi engineered the sacking of the previous premier...

An Ethiopian Airlines plane destined for Rome was forced to land early Monday in Geneva, where the hijacker was arrested, authorities said.   The airline said one of its planes had been...

The force of "Gravity" was strong at the British Academy Film Awards on Sunday — but it was unflinching drama "12 Years a Slave" that took the top prize.   Steve...

Eight times a day, a group of nuns files into a chapel in their rural northwest Missouri monastery to chant and worship.   Quite unexpectedly, this private, prayerful pursuit has made the...