A U.S. balloonist who was trying to cross the Atlantic Ocean using hundreds of helium-filled balloons has landed short of his goal in Newfoundland. "This doesn't look like France," he...

A judge on Friday sentenced to death the four men convicted in the December gang rape and murder of a young New Delhi woman, ordering them to the gallows for a brutal attack on a bus that left the...

Voyager 1 has crossed a new frontier, becoming the first spacecraft ever to leave the solar system, NASA said.   Thirty-six years after it was launched from Earth on a tour of the outer...

A South Korean man abducted by North Korea has escaped and returned home after 41 years, government officials and activists said Friday.   Jeon Wook-pyo, 68, was one of 25 crewmen on board...

An international team of engineers and other experts has devised no "Plan B" if an attempt to right the hulking wreck of the grounded Costa Concordia goes wrong and the cruise liner splits...

European lawmakers approved legislation Thursday establishing a new, centralized oversight for Europe's largest banks, marking what is considered a key step toward stabilizing the bloc's...

The European Union is seeking to abolish mobile phone roamingcharges across the 28-nation zone while streamlining its telecoms sector and boosting investment in new high-speed...

The crisis over chemical weapons in Syria has underlined a central dilemma for the West as it tries to deal with the country's civil war — the lack of attractive alternatives to President...

Humberto grew to hurricane force far out in the Atlantic on Wednesday, becoming the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, while Bermuda shook off a drenching by Tropical Storm...

The UN food agency says one-third of all food produced in the world gets wasted, amounting to a loss of $750 billion a year.   The Rome-based Food and Agricultural Organisation said in a...