German police have recovered a cookie sculpture that may have been stolen by someone impersonating the Cookie Monster.   Spokeswoman Jacobe Heers says the 20-kilogram (44...

The plaintive meows haunt the people of Minsk in the dead of night.   They come, activists say, from hundreds of stray cats who find themselves locked in basements by Belarus authorities...

The lives of the world’s poorest people have improved more rapidly in the last 15 years than ever before, yet I am optimistic that we will do even better in the next 15 years. After all, human...

    Shakira is sharing the first public photograph of her recently born baby, with father Gerard Pique planting a kiss on his infant son's cheek.   The 36-year-old...

    He wore the English crown, but he ended up defeated, humiliated and reviled.   Now things are looking up for King Richard III. Scientists announced Monday that they had...

    President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he's ready to be the first Iranian astronaut sent into space as part of Iran's goal of manned space flight.   Ahmadinejad says...

Back in the last quarter of 2011, when the decline in China’s investment growth accelerated, concerns about a hard economic landing intensified, particularly given the authorities’...

    Police used a stun gun to arrest a man armed with knives outside Buckingham Palace on Sunday, as throngs of tourists gathered to watch the Changing of the Guard ceremony...

Using modern technology, a Virginia museum is working to unwrap the story behind one of the earliest surviving Egyptian mummies.   The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond partnered this...

    Spain's prime minister promised Saturday to publicly disclose the amount of funds in all his personal bank accounts, denying recent media reports that allege he and members of...