Cyprus has cut spending by 10 percent in its 2014 budget in order to meet the targets set out in the country's bailout program.   Finance Minister Harris Georgiades says the cost savings...

Wilfried Martens, who led nine Belgian governments and the European Union's Christian Democrat group, has died. He was 77.   Martens died overnight at his home surrounded by close...

European lawmakers awarded their top human rights prize Thursday to Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who last year survived a Taliban assassination attempt because of her outspoken...

Canadian writer Alice Munro, a thorough, but forgiving documenter of the human spirit, won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for being a "master of the contemporary short story," the...

Hundreds of Egyptians on Wednesday held candles, waved pictures of slain protesters and demanded retribution from former generals while marking the second anniversary of the killing of 26 people,...

A Brazilian hospital says a patient with diabetic kidney failure has been left legless after going into an operation to amputate his right leg and having doctors remove his left.   Marilda...

Three U.S.-based scientists won this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing powerful computer models that others can use to understand complex chemical interactions and create...

Christian leaders in Israel are up in arms over what they say is a string of relentless attacks on church properties and religious sites — most recently the desecration of a historic Protestant...

In its latest comprehensive assessment of the evidence on global warming, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has shown that the world’s climate scientists are more...

Before doctors drilled through President Cristina Fernandez's skull Tuesday to remove a blood clot pressuring her brain, her vice president sought to reassure Argentines they have no reason to be...