The president of the European Parliament Martin Schulz, arrived in Athens to hold talks with newly elected prime minister Alexis Tsipras and initiate contacts between the European Union and the Greek...

Manchester Airport has suspended all flights in and out of the airport due to snow, as severe weather warnings are issued for much of the UK and the north is hit by "thundersnow" storms. The Met...

Internet giant Google said Wednesday that its video-sharing website YouTube is so inundated that staff cannot filter all terror related content, complicating the struggle to halt the publication of...

The Malaysian government has officially declared the disappearance of Malaysian Airline flight MH370 an accident and has said that there were no survivors. No trace of the Beijing-bound aircraft...

Best-selling Australian author Colleen McCullough, whose novel "The Thorn Birds" sold 30 million copies worldwide, has died at age 77 after a long illness. HarperCollins Australia publishing...

RUSSIA-ECONOMY MOSCOW — The Russian government, facing its worst economic crisis in a decade, on Wednesday detailed how it intends to cut spending over the next three years in all parts of...

A hostage who died during a siege in a downtown Sydney cafe was killed when she was struck by fragments of a bullet fired from a police officer's gun as authorities stormed in to end the 16-hour...

The Islamic State group released a message late Wednesday purportedly extending the deadline for Jordan's release of an Iraqi would-be hotel bomber linked to al-Qaida. The message, read by a...

Bart the cat was hit by a car, buried and crawled back from the dead — literally. Earlier this month, a car hit the 1 ½-year-old cat in Tampa, Florida. Bart's owner was so...

A woman who says she was groped by a teacher when she was a Catholic school cheerleader and a man who says a priest abused him beginning when he was 10 are asking Pope Francis to investigate...