The death toll from a stampede near a temple in central India rose to 109 after many of the injured succumbed, an official said Monday.   Thousands of Hindu pilgrims were crossing a bridge...

New York City detectives have solved the decades-old mystery of "Baby Hope," a little girl whose naked body was discovered inside a picnic cooler beside a Manhattan highway in 1991 and...

First came the fireball, then the screams of the victims. The suicide bombing just outside a Baghdad graveyard knocked Nasser Waleed Ali over and peppered his back with shrapnel.   Ali was...

Strong winds and heavy rains pounded India's eastern coastline Saturday, as authorities rushed to move tens of thousands of people away from a massive, powerful cyclone expected to reach land in a...

Libya's Western-backed prime minister on Friday said his brief abduction by gunmen this week was an attempted coup by his Islamist political rivals, using militias which he warned are trying to...

Erich Priebke, a former Nazi SS captain who evaded arrest for nearly 50 years after taking part in one of the worst atrocities by German occupiers in Italy during World War II, died Friday, his...

A car bomb exploded outside a building housing the Swedish and Finnish consulates in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Friday, badly damaging it but causing no casualties, Libyan and Swedish...

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons won this year's Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its efforts to stop the chemical warfare that has haunted the world from Hitler's gas...

"Doctor Who" fans rejoice — the BBC says it has recovered nine episodes of the sci-fi series that were feared lost in space and time.   The broadcaster says the missing...

European Central Bank head Mario Draghi says a U.S. government debt default would cause "severe damage" to the American and global economies — but that the rest of the world...