The top commander of Libya's air force has joined the ranks of renegade general Khalifa Qassim Haftar, backing his "Dignity Operation" that targets religious hardliners, and adding to...

The Italian navy has rescued nearly 1,000 illegal migrants from the seas off southern Italy inside two days, with 170 children among them.   In the latest rescue, 462 migrants including 37...

Rescue workers will dig through rubble to search Wednesday for more victims of twin car bomb blasts that collapsed buildings in a bustling marketplace and bus station in Nigeria's central city of...

Pope Francis will arrive this weekend in the land where Christianity was born — and where Christians are disappearing.   This ancient community has dwindled to around 2 percent of the...

Angelina Jolie may be Hollywood royalty. But she's no princess, and has never been a fan of the Disney variety.   "I found them quite dull," the actress says.   Evil...

It took only a few minutes for a roaring landslide to leave Ramiz Skopljak homeless for the second time in his life.   The first time he had been 47, and though his house was a ruin, the...

The Italian navy rescued nearly 500 migrants, including 100 children, in an all-night operation Tuesday that highlighted the increasing number of minors venturing out on the dangerous sea journey to...

Thailand's powerful army declared martial law Tuesday and deployed troops into the heart of Bangkok in a dramatic move it said was aimed at stabilizing the Southeast Asian country after six...

While unrest continued eastern Ukraine, Russian army units on Tuesday started dismantling their summer camps in the border regions in line with President Vladimir Putin's order, the Russian...

The death toll in Syria's three-year conflict has climbed past 160,000, an activist group said Monday, a harrowing figure that reflects the relentless bloodletting in a civil war that appears no...