The new Vatican No. 2 was a no-show Tuesday at the ceremony to take over the reins of the Holy See administration, after being hospitalized for urgent surgery on the day he was to have begun charting...

The death toll from a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck the central Philippine island of Bohol on Tuesday rose to 93, as rescuers struggled to reach patients in a collapsed hospital. Centuries-old...

Senate leaders are closing in on an agreement to reopen the government and forestall an economy-rattling default on U.S. obligations.   Congressional aides predicted Majority Leader Harry...

As many as 12 women are killed by their partners or family members every day in Europe alone. In 2008, more than one-third of all murders of women in Europe were carried out by the victim’s...

Civil defence officials say the death toll has risen to 20 in a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that hit the central Philippines.   Civil defense spokesman Maj. Reynaldo Balido says 15 of the...

A man with a knife was arrested after he tried to dart through a gate at Buckingham Palace in London on Monday, police said. The palace said Queen Elizabeth II was not in...

Americans Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller won the Nobel prize for economics on Monday for developing new methods to study trends in asset markets.   The Royal Swedish...

A Malaysian appeals court on Monday upheld a government ban against the use of the word "Allah" to refer to God in non-Muslim faiths, overruling claims by Christians in this Muslim-majority...

Britain announced Monday that it is making it easier for Chinese visitors to apply for visas following complaints from U.K. tourism businesses that the system doesn't entice enough high-spending...

This month, for only the second time in its history, the United Nations General Assembly will focus on international migration. The stakes are high. In the balance rests not only the well-being of the...