Two U.S. fighter jets have dropped four unarmed bombs in Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park when a training exercise went wrong.   The two AV-8B Harrier jets launched...

Thousands of young Roman Catholics from around the Americas are converging on Rio de Janeiro, taking dayslong bus trips or expensive plane flights that were paid for by baking cookies and holding...

Five employees of an Italian cruise company were convicted Saturday of manslaughter in the Costa Concordia shipwreck that killed 32 people, receiving sentences of less than three years that lawyers...

After a rush of last-minute talks with Palestinian officials, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sealed a step toward relaunching the long-halted Mideast peace process, announcing Friday that Israel...

A Milan court on Friday convicted three of ex-premier SilvioBerlusconi's former aides of procuring prostitutes for the media mogul's infamous "bunga bunga"...

The European Union is moving closer to declaring the military wing of the Lebanese party Hezbollah a terrorist organization and could make a decision as soon as Monday if the last few countries with...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is warning that a second debt writedown for Greece could undo much of the recent work done to stabilize the euro area.   Merkel's comments Friday came a...

A police photographer, furious with a Rolling Stone magazine cover photo he said glamorizes the surviving Boston Marathon suspect, released gritty images from the night Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured...

South Africa celebrated Nelson Mandela's 95th birthday with acts of charity on Thursday, a milestone capped by news that the former president's health was improving after fears that he was...

Legendary rock singer Tina Turner has married her longtime German beau, Erwin Bach, in a Swiss civil ceremony.   The mayor of Kuesnacht, the wealthy Zurich-area community where Turner lives,...