Maggie Smith, the masterful, scene-stealing actor who won an Oscar for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" in 1969 and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in "Downton...

Belgium's prime minister on Friday blasted Pope Francis for the Catholic Church's horrific legacy of clerical sex abuse and cover-ups in his country, demanding "concrete steps" to come clean...

The bodies of 13 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa were found washed up on Tunisia's Mediterranean coast this week as authorities struggle to stem unauthorized boat crossings from North Africa to...

A Japanese court ruled Thursday that an 88-year-old former boxer was not guilty in a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder, reversing an earlier wrongful conviction after decades on death...

Ukraine's president dismissed the notion of peace talks with Moscow on Tuesday, calling instead for unspecified global "action" to force Russia into peace for invading his country and to comply with...

Police in northern Switzerland said Tuesday that several people have been detained and a criminal case opened in connection with the suspected death of a person in a "suicide capsule." The...

World leaders will open their annual meeting at the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday under the shadow of increasing global divisions, major wars in Gaza, Ukraine and, Sudan and...

Facing a swirl of conflicts and crises across a fragmented world, leaders attending this week's annual U.N. gathering are being challenged: Work together - not only on front-burner issues but on...

If you're trying to lose weight and want a new way to do it, stair-climbing as a regular exercise - or just adding a few flights a day - might be for you. It's accessible, and research shows it's...

  Israel launched a rare airstrike that killed a senior Hezbollah military official in a densely populated southern Beirut neighborhood on Friday. It was the deadliest such strike...