Venice's mayor resigned under pressure Friday, a day after being freed from house arrest under a plea deal linked to a bribery scandal involving the construction of underwater barriers to protect...

More than 20,000 elephants were poached last year in Africa where large seizures of smuggled ivory eclipsed those in Asia for the first time, international wildlife regulators said...

Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush celebrated his 90th birthday Thursday by making a tandem parachute jump near his summer home in Maine, fulfilling a promise made five years ago despite...

Harrison Ford was hospitalized after being injured on the set of "Star Wars: Episode VII."   Disney said the 71-year-old actor was being treated for an ankle injury that...

Ruby Dee, an acclaimed actress and civil rights activist whose versatile career spanned stage, radio television and film, has died at age 91, according to her daughter.   Nora Davis Day...

Protesters and Brazilian police clashed in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro on Thursday, just hours before the first World Cup match.   More than 300 demonstrators gathered along a main highway...

Ukraine's interior minister says that three tanks have crossed into Ukrainian territory from Russia and were attacked by his country's forces.   The Interfax news agency quoted Arsen...

The al-Qaida-inspired group that captured two key Sunni-dominated cities in Iraq this week vowed on Thursday to march on to Baghdad, raising fears about the Shiite-led government's...

Pope Francis has a message for the World Cup: Let football be a showcase for teamwork and solidarity, not an exhibition of racism and greed.   The Argentine-born, football-loving pope...

China and Japan are blaming each other for a close encounter between military jets over the East China Sea.   China's defense ministry said Thursday that Japanese F-15 fighters followed...