Italian news reports say two Italian Tornado fighter jets have collided over eastern Italy during a training mission and crashed into a wooded area that caught fire.   A Civil Protection...

Ukrainian government troops were fighting pro-Russian rebels in the streets of Luhansk on Tuesday and captured most of a town near the eastern city of Donetsk, tightening the noose around that key...

Herman "Hy" Goldman turned 101 this weekend and won't quit after 73 years working at the same New Jersey job.   Goldman still shows up four days a week at light fixtures...

The U.N. health agency says the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has now killed more than 1,200 people.   The World Health Organization says the death toll has risen to 1,229 from among the...

Pope Francis says he wants dialogue with China and the only thing he asks in return is for the Catholic Church to be able to operate freely.   The pope told reporters the church "only...

Armed groups in Syria have an estimated several hundred portable anti-aircraft missiles that could easily be diverted to extremists and used to destroy low-flying commercial planes, according to a new...

Spacewalking astronauts launched a tiny Peruvian research satellite Monday, setting it loose on a mission to observe Earth.   Russian Oleg Artemiev cast the 4-inch (10.1-centimeter) box off...

Israel's Shin Bet security service said today that it had thwarted a Hamas coup attempt in the West Bank aimed at toppling Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, though it offered few...

Ukraine claimed Monday that rebels in the east of the country fired rockets and mortars on civilians trying to flee from the region's intense fighting.   "Many people were killed,...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he will be leaving the Ecuadorean Embassy in London soon — but did not say when or explain his decision.   Assange has been holed...