Prosecutors indicted the captain of the sunken South Korean ferry and three crew members on homicide charges Thursday, alleging that they failed to carry out their duties to protect passengers in...

Amid wails of grief and anger, rescue workers coated in grime trudged repeatedly out of a coal mine Wednesday with stretchers of bodies that swelled the death toll to 274 — the worst such...

Ukraine's government launched talks Wednesday on decentralizing power as part of a European-backed peace plan but didn't invite its main foes, the pro-Russia insurgents who have declared...

The Grace Kelly melodrama "Grace of Monaco" kicked off the 67th annual Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday with classic French Riviera glamour, behind-the-scenes controversy and emphatic boos...

Women wailed uncontrollably, men knelt sobbing and others just stared in disbelief outside a coal mine in western Turkey as rescue workers removed a steady stream of bodies from an underground...

A pocket watch originally owned by Napoleon’s wife, the Empress Marie-Louise, is to be sold at the Bonhams Fine Watch Auction on 11 June in London’s New Bond Street.   Estimated...

A record 33.3 million people worldwide were displaced by conflict and violence inside their own nations in 2013, U.N. and Norwegian officials said Wednesday.   The increase of 4.5 million...

A wildfire roaring through Southern California forced evacuation orders for more than 20,000 homes on Tuesday, but so far only one mobile home burned as a high-pressure system brought unseasonable...

Italy threatened to allow refugees to cross its borders into neighbouring countries unless the European Union takes charge of a sea operation to manage the flow of migrants crossing in boats from...

A United Nations observer at the trial of two of Muammar Gaddafi's sons in Libya has been detained on suspicion of "black magic".   Ahmed Ghanem, one of a...