The U.N. migration agency says a boat carrying 86 migrants from Libya sank in the Mediterranean overnight, and just three people on board survived, with 82 missing. The shipwreck late Wednesday...

Authorities say a Texas woman ate half a cake while roaming the aisles of a Walmart store and then refused to pay full price for it, claiming she had found it half-eaten. Wichita Falls police...

A 20-year-old Indian man stunned his grieving friends and family members when he woke up at his own funeral, Indian media report.  The man was admitted to a private hospital on 21...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Wednesday a bill making California the first state to ban workplace and school discrimination against black people for wearing hairstyles such as braids, twists and...

Italian news agency ANSA says eruptions from a volcano on the Sicilian island of Stromboli sent about 30 tourists jumping into the sea for safety. Civil protection authorities said a hiker was...

Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp have been hit by a glitch, leaving many users unable to upload photos and videos. Facebook, which owns all three services, said it is aware of the...

David-Maria Sassoli, an Italian member of the Socialists & Democrats bloc, has been elected as the next president of the European parliament after two rounds of voting in the Strasbourg-based legislature....

All passengers were evacuated to safety after a bus caught fire in Rome this morning, Italian media report. Noticing the fire, the driver stopped the vehicle and assisted the passengers while...

An airstrike hit a detention centre for migrants in the Libyan capital early Wednesday, killing at least 44 people, a health official in the country's U.N.-supported government said....

The sea captain who rammed a police boat while bringing 40 rescued migrants to an Italian port she'd been warned to stay out of must be freed from house arrest, a judge ruled Tuesday in a decision...