Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday called the Holocaust "the ugliest crime humanity has known in modern history," a rare acknowledgment by an Arab leader of Jewish...

South Korea's president accepted her prime minister's resignation Sunday over the government's handling of a deadly ferry sinking, although she didn't set a last day in...

A letter written by a passenger on the Titanic describing the "wonderful passage" — hours before the ship hit an iceberg — has sold at auction for 119,000 pounds...

A prosecutor investigating the South Korean ferry sinking that left 302 people dead or missing says all 15 crew members involved in the ship's navigation are now in custody.   Prosecutor...

The U.S. and Europe are laying the groundwork to sanction broad sectors of Russia's economy if Moscow invades eastern Ukraine, President Barack Obama said Friday, even as he acknowledged that...

Twenty-five dead cats have been found in plastic bags hanging from trees in a New York City suburb. It is a reminder of what happened in Mosta over several months before a man was apprehended by...

Later this year, a ship the size of an aircraft carrier will arrive at Lithuania's port of Klaipeda on the Baltic Sea. The 300-meter (984-foot) vessel is not a warship, but a floating natural gas...

A drunken passenger who caused a hijack scare on a Virgin Australia flight by trying to break into the cockpit was arrested Friday after the plane landed on Indonesia's resort island of Bali,...

Frustrated relatives of the scores of people still missing from the sinking of the ferry Sewol staged a marathon confrontation with the fisheries minister and the coast guard chief, surrounding the...

Russia's defence minister has announced new military exercises in Russia's south and west in reaction to the mounting unrest in eastern Ukraine.   Ukrainian troops on Thursday moved...