Amy McInerney at first saw Joe Biden as Democrats' best hope to beat President Donald Trump — an experienced politician with the potential to peel off some of Trump's working-class supporters....

A man who was bitten by a black widow spider in the southern Italian city of Barletta was saved by an antidote sent just in time from an anti-poison centre in Pavia, Italian media report. The...

Barry rolled into the Louisiana coast Saturday, flooding highways, forcing people to scramble to rooftops and dumping heavy rain that officials had feared could test the levees and pumps that were...

A power outage crippled the tourist-filled heart of Manhattan just as Saturday night Broadway shows were set to go on, sending theater-goers spilling into the streets, knocking out Times Square's...

The mystery of the 1983 disappearance of the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee took yet another twist Saturday following excavations this week at a Vatican City cemetery. The Vatican said it...

Residents of a city in Siberia don't need to fly off to tropical locales for picturesque selfies taken by pristine turquoise waters. Thousands of Novosibirsk residents — ranging from scantily...

People boarded up buildings, stocked up on water and braced for torrents of rain and punishing wind from a strengthening Tropical Storm Barry that threatened millions as it churned a path ashore and...

A 12-year-old boy was killed and his 11-year-old cousin has lost his legs after an SUV hit them in Vittoria near Ragusa Thursday night, hospital sources said Friday....

Dozens of people were violently slammed off the ceiling of a jetliner that encountered unexpected and intense turbulence over the Pacific Ocean Thursday. An Air Canada flight to Australia made an...

A crowded highway in suburban Atlanta turned into a lottery payday for dozens of drivers, ABC reports. Drivers pulled over and scrambled out of their vehicles when an armoured...