Warships from 17 nations including the United States and China were welcomed in Sydney Harbour on Friday as the city celebrates the centenary of the fledgling Australian navy fleet's first...

The negotiations to create a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the European Union and the United States are being widely welcomed. British Prime Minister David Cameron has called...

A ship carrying African migrants to Europe caught fire and capsized Thursday off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, killing at least 114 people as hundreds were dumped into the sea, officials...

A chartered airplane nosedived into the ground and burst into flames meters from tanks of aviation fuel Thursday, killing 11 people, Nigerian officials said.   Five survivors among 20...

Mia Farrow says in an interview with Vanity Fair that it's possible her son with Woody Allen is instead Frank Sinatra's.   Farrow told the magazine that she and...

Chinese President Xi Jinping made history in Indonesia on Thursday by becoming the first foreign leader to address the democratic country's Parliament, using the platform to call for greater...

Silvio Berlusconi's failed attempt to topple the Italian government has left him weaker than ever, zapped of the aura of invincibility that has surrounded him for two decades as he faces...

Tom Clancy, whose high-tech, Cold War thrillers such as "The Hunt for Red October" and "Patriot Games" made him the most widely read and influential military novelist of his...

Prime Minister David Cameron said Wednesday that Britain is on the road to financial recovery, and his Conservative Party will unleash economic energy to make it "a land of opportunity for...

International inspectors in charge of overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons left their hotel in Damascus on Wednesday to begin their work as deadly clashes raged on the edge of...