Rome's mayor says biologist Rita Levi-Montalcini, who conducted underground research in defiance of Fascist persecution, and went on to win a Nobel Prize for helping unlock the mysteries of the...

South African media say provincial authorities are investigating the deaths of seven job-seekers who collapsed in the heat while undergoing a fitness test for positions as traffic...

    A passenger train has plowed into and killed five elephants of a herd crossing railroad tracks in eastern India.   R.N. Mohapatra, a railroad spokesman, says the train...

    Egypt's Islamist president warned against any unrest that could harm the drive to repair the country's battered economy in his first address before the newly convened upper...

    A passenger airliner careered off the runway at Russia's third-busiest airport while landing on Saturday, broke into pieces and caught fire, killing at least four...

    Authorities are investigating cough syrup believed to have killed 33 people in eastern Pakistan in the past three days, a government official said Saturday, the second time in...

She called it, simply, the worst moment of her life.   It came in March 1982 during the days before the Falklands War, after Argentina established an unauthorized presence on Britain's...

    Shocked Indians on Saturday were mourning the death of a woman who was gang-raped and beaten on a bus in New Delhi nearly two weeks ago in an ordeal that galvanized people to demand...

    Italian Premier Mario Monti announced Friday he is heading a new campaign coalition made of up centrists, business leaders and pro-Vatican forces who back his "ethical"...

    Visit your parents. That's an order.   So says China, whose national legislature on Friday amended its law on the elderly to require that adult children visit their...