The mayor of Ukraine's second-largest city was shot in the back Monday and pro-Russia insurgents seized yet another government building as tensions rose in eastern Ukraine ahead of a new round of...

A judge in Egypt sentenced to death 683 alleged supporters of the country's ousted Islamist president on Monday over acts of violence and the murder of policemen in the latest mass trial in Egypt...

Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II are the odd couple of modern Roman Catholicism. The avuncular John XXIII, who wanted to loosen up a hidebound Church, and the combative John Paul II, who...

Divers on Monday renewed their search for more than 100 bodies still trapped in a sunken ferry after weekend efforts were hindered by bad weather, strong currents and floating debris clogging the...

A crowd of pro-Russia activists has stormed the television broadcasting center in Donetsk, the regional capital of eastern Ukraine.   They are demanding the suspension of broadcasts of...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday called the Holocaust "the ugliest crime humanity has known in modern history," a rare acknowledgment by an Arab leader of Jewish...

South Korea's president accepted her prime minister's resignation Sunday over the government's handling of a deadly ferry sinking, although she didn't set a last day in...

A letter written by a passenger on the Titanic describing the "wonderful passage" — hours before the ship hit an iceberg — has sold at auction for 119,000 pounds...

A prosecutor investigating the South Korean ferry sinking that left 302 people dead or missing says all 15 crew members involved in the ship's navigation are now in custody.   Prosecutor...

The U.S. and Europe are laying the groundwork to sanction broad sectors of Russia's economy if Moscow invades eastern Ukraine, President Barack Obama said Friday, even as he acknowledged that...