President Barack Obama has been sworn in for a second four-year term.   Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath of office Sunday in the Blue Room of...

London's Heathrow airport canceled 260 flights — or 20 percent of its usual schedule — on Sunday because of snow and low visibility, causing a third day of misery for...

The original Batmobile from the 1960s television series 'Batman' has sold at auction for $4.2 million.   A spokeswoman for Barrett-Jackson Auction Co. says the winning bidder has not...

    Algerian de-mining teams were scouring a gas refinery on Sunday that was the scene of a bloody four-day standoff, searching for explosive traps left by the Islamist militants who...

    Algeria's special forces stormed a natural gas complex in the middle of the Sahara desert on Saturday in a "final assault" aimed at ending a four-day-old hostage...

    A Brazilian judge has ordered the erotic trilogy "Fifty Shades of Grey" taken off the shelves of bookstores in the city of Macae, or at least wrapped to prevent minors...

    The bloody three-day hostage standoff at a natural gas plant in the Sahara took a dramatic turn Friday as Algeria's state news service reported that nearly 100 of the 132...

Authorities were working Friday to repair a dike that collapsed amid torrential rains that have swamped the Indonesian capital, while thousands of police and soldiers worked to help victims of the...

    Algerian helicopters and special forces stormed a gas plant in the stony plains of the Sahara on Thursday to wipe out Islamist militants and free hostages from at least 10...

    A lawyer in Germany claims surgeons left up to 16 objects in her client's body after an operation for prostate cancer.   Annette Corinth says doctors removed a needle,...