More than a thousand inmates escaped a prison Saturday in Libya as protesters stormed political party offices across the country, signs of the simmering unrest gripping a nation overrun by militias...

The injured driver of the Spanish train that derailed at high speed, killing 78 and injuring dozens more, was released from the hospital Saturday, but he was still being held in a police station as...

An Egyptian doctor at a field hospital says at least 16 supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi have been killed near a Cairo demonstration following clashes with security...

The Islamist extremist cell behind an earlier political assassination also killed a leftist Tunisian politician using the same weapon, a top security official announced Friday.   Mohammed...

By all accounts, the train was going way too fast as it curled around a gentle bend. Then in an instant, one car tumbled off the track, followed by the rest of the locomotive, which seemed to come...

Pope Francis showed his rebel side Thursday, urging young Catholics to shake up the church and make a "mess" in their dioceses by going out into the streets to spread the faith. It's a...

Gunmen shot dead the leader of a leftist Tunisian opposition party on Thursday morning, this year's second political assassination in the birthplace of the Arab Spring and another blow to the...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday raised the death toll in Syria's civil war to more than 100,000, up from nearly 93,000 just over a month ago.   Ban called on the Syrian...

The "slum pope" returned to the slum.   Pope Francis received a rapturous welcome on Thursday as he visited one of Rio de Janeiro's shantytowns, or favelas, a place that has...

The death toll in a passenger train crash in northwestern Spain rose to 77 Friday after the train jumped the tracks on a curvy stretch of track just before arriving in the northwestern shrine city of...