The British capital plans to mark the birth of Prince William and his wife Kate's first child with a 62-gun salute from the Tower of London and a light show along the River...

He was buried in an unmarked grave, but finally King Richard III is to get a tomb fit for a king.   British officials say they will spend 1 million pounds ($1.5 million) interring...

INDRAJIT SINGH,Associated Press         PATNA, India (AP) — Autopsy reports on 22 children who died this week after eating a school lunch in eastern India confirmed...

A Rolling Stone story on Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is generating controversy even before it hits stores, with critics saying the cover photo glamorizes an accused killer and...

The children started falling violently ill soon after they ate the free school lunch of rice, lentils, soybeans and potatoes.   The food, part of a program that gives poor Indian students at...

Lawyers for the captain on trial for the deadly shipwreck of the luxury cruise liner Costa Concordia are making a last-ditch attempt to reach a plea bargain in a case that could result in a long...

Pope Francis is forgoing the bulletproof popemobile for his upcoming trip to Brazil for the Catholic Church's youth festival.   The Argentine pope will instead use the same open-topped...

An estimated 5,000 Syrians are dying every month in the country's civil war and refugees are fleeing at a rate not seen since the 1994 Rwanda genocide, U.N. officials said...

Everyone is talking about China’s economic slowdown. Last year, Chinese GDP growth reached a 13-year low, and no upturn is in sight. But, as Premier Li Keqiang seems to recognize, this trend...

Egypt's interim president is swearing in a new Cabinet, the first since the ouster of the Islamist president by the military nearly two weeks ago.   The new government, sworn in Tuesday,...