Moments after touching down, the pilot of a cargo-hauling Boeing 747 jet seemed confused in his exchanges with air traffic controllers. When told he was 9 miles (14 kilometers) north of his intended...

London's subway system is planning to introduce 24-hour service on the weekends on some lines under new plans that will involve closing all ticket offices and cutting 750 jobs by...

Further evidence emerged Thursday to show that the paltry economic recovery in the 17-country eurozone is already losing steam, just months after it emerged from its longest-ever...

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez said Wednesday that she's going to deepen her government's left-leaning economic program.   Fernandez remade her Cabinet this week after six...

Italy's justice minister survived a no-confidence vote Wednesday after insisting to lawmakers that she didn't abuse her position to win the release of a family friend from...

Joseph Paul Franklin, a white supremacist who targeted blacks and Jews in a cross-country killing spree from 1977 to 1980, was put to death Wednesday in Missouri, the state's first execution using...

The Vatican on Tuesday unveiled newly restored frescoes in the Catacombs of Priscilla, known for housing the earliest known image of the Madonna with Child — and frescoes said by some to show...

Twin suicide bombers detonated explosions outside the Iranian Embassy in a mainly Shiite district of the Lebanese capital on Tuesday, killing 23 people, including the Iranian cultural attaché,...

 Emergency crews worked to reach remote parts of flood-ravaged Sardinia on Tuesday after a torrential rainstorm killed at least 16 people, downed bridges and swept cars...

The lack of access to a decent toilet is no joke for a third of the world's people, but a matter of life and death.   Some 2.5 billion people do not have access to adequate sanitation,...