An Australian family has reclaimed their Guinness World Record by stringing up more than half a million Christmas lights around their suburban home.   Guinness World Records official Chris...

About 10,000 demonstrators are marching through central Kiev to demand that the Ukrainian government reverse course and sign a landmark agreement with the European Union.   Carrying...

The United States and Iran secretly engaged in a series of high-level, face-to-face talks over the past year, in a high-stakes diplomatic gamble by the Obama administration that paved the way for the...

New details emerged Saturday in the bizarre case of three suspected female slaves allegedly held for 30 years, with police indicating the unusual household arrangement started as a collective of...

Mount Etna, Europe's most active volcano, has erupted again, showering volcanic ash on towns dotting the mountain's slopes and nearby Taormina.   The eruption Saturday did not force...

U.N. climate talks were deadlocked Saturday as the U.S. and China clashed over what role the Chinese and other fast-growing economies should play in a new pact to fight global...

The death toll from one of the strongest typhoons on record has risen above 5,000 and is likely to climb further, although recovery efforts are beginning to take hold, Philippine officials said...

Fifty years after John F. Kennedy fell victim to an assassin's bullet while visiting Texas with his wife, people at home and abroad paused Friday to remember the 35th president of the United...

Hordes of shoppers were picking up food after work in the Latvian capital when an enormous section of the supermarket's roof caved in. Firefighters rushed in to save them, only to be crushed...

Opposition lawmakers on Friday booed Ukraine's prime minister, whose government shelved a landmark deal with the European Union, while turning toward Moscow.   Ukraine's Cabinet on...