Our fascination with mummies never gets old. Now the British Museum is using the latest technology to unwrap their ancient mysteries.   Scientists at the museum have used CT scans and...

British Culture Secretary Maria Miller, who was in charge of legislation on press regulation and gay marriage, resigned Wednesday after an embarrassing row over her parliamentary expense...

Ukraine's Security Service said Wednesday morning that 56 people held inside an agency's local headquarters in the eastern city of Luhansk occupied by pro-Russian separatists have been allowed...

A ship searching for the missing Malaysian jet has detected two more underwater signals, raising hopes the wreckage of the plane will be spotted soon, the Australian official in charge of the search...

The European Union's top court on Tuesday dealt a blow to law-enforcement agencies' spying on phone and internet records, saying the lives of citizens should not be "the subject of...

Ireland's president was welcomed with regal pomp to Queen Elizabeth II's Windsor Castle home on Tuesday, opening a state visit heavy with symbolism for two countries with a tangled and...

        The quiet period between the declaration of war in September 1939 and the Nazi blitz on Belgium and France in May 1940 is often called “The Phony...

Search crews hunting for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet have failed to relocate faint sounds heard deep below the Indian Ocean that officials said were consistent with a plane's black boxes,...

British TV presenter Peaches Geldof, the second daughter of musician Bob Geldof and Paula Yates, has died in her home in the village of Wrotham at the age of 25.   Kent Police called at her...

Pro-Russian separatists who seized a provincial administration building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Monday proclaimed the region an independent republic in a move echoing the run-up to...