Miss Universe Thailand has resigned less than a month into her reign after being harshly criticized on social media over her political comments and looks.   Weluree Ditsayabut, 22, tearfully...

Rik Mayall, one of a generation of performers that injected post-punk energy into British comedy, has died. He was 56.   Mayall's management firm Brunskill Management said the...

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have reportedly kidnapped 20 women from a nomadic settlement in northeast Nigeria near the town of Chibok, where the Islamic militants abducted more than 300...

The world's oldest man, a retired chemist and parapsychologist, has died in New York City. Alexander Imich was 111.   His niece says Imich died Sunday at his home in...

The Pakistani Taliban on Monday claimed responsibility for a brazen five-hour assault on the country's busiest airport that saw gunmen disguised as police guards storm the international terminal...

Libya's top court on Monday rejected the Islamist-led parliament's appointment of a new prime minister, a ruling likely to deepen the country's crisis amid a power struggle between the...

A Michigan teenager carrying his 7-year-old brother on his back has battled heat, rain, fatigue and more to finish a 40-mile walk to raise awareness about cerebral palsy.   Fourteen-year-old...

A man and a woman ambushed two police officers eating lunch at a Las Vegas restaurant, fatally shooting them at point-blank range before fleeing to a nearby Wal-Mart where they killed a third person...

Spain's King Juan Carlos presided over his last military parade before abdicating in favor of his son.   Prince Felipe accompanied the king at Sunday's annual Armed Forces day...

Vatican officials insist no political agenda is lurking behind Pope Francis' invitation to the Israeli and Palestinian presidents to pray for peace together in the Vatican gardens, and no concrete...