France's president is reported to be sneaking around on a motorcycle to have a secret affair with an actress. Who takes the brunt of the heat? In a very French twist, it's increasingly looking...

Crystal vases, brooches, books: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II received dozens of traditional gifts last year, but she also got some unusual items, from a chocolate Windsor Castle to some enameled...

Police are hunting burglars who tried to steal the ashes of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud from a London crematorium.   The Metropolitan Police force says a 2,300-year-old Greek urn containing...

A tiger prowling for food has killed seven people in northern India in the past two weeks, forcing thousands of terrified villagers to stay inside while hunters try to kill the animal,...

No asylum seeker has reached Australia by boat in more than three weeks, but the army general charged with ending the sea traffic of would-be refugees from Southeast Asia said Wednesday he...

Under pressure over a magazine report that he is having a secret affair with an actress, French President Francois Hollande said Tuesday he is going through "painful moments" but...

In a regretful letter penned a few months before his death, Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle, asked the head of the Russian Orthodox Church if he was to blame for the...

Israel says its final farewell to Ariel Sharon   JOSEF FEDERMAN, Associated Press         JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel said its last farewell to Ariel Sharon...

Amy Poehler made out with Bono, Tina Fey mocked George Clooney's taste in women and Matt Damon emerged, bizarrely, as the night's recurring gag.   But at the end of a madcap Golden...

 Pope Francis named his first batch of cardinals on Sunday, choosing 19 men from Asia, Africa, Latin America and elsewhere, including the developing nations of Haiti and Burkina Faso, in line...