Former President Alan Garcia mortally wounded himself with a gunshot to his head Wednesday as officers waited to arrest him in a big graft probe that has put Peru’s most prominent politicians...

An official on Portugal's Madeira Island says a tour bus crash has killed 28 people, most of them German tourists. Local mayor Filipe Sousa tells cable news channel SIC that the victims include...

Spain has reluctantly allowed humanitarian aid vessels to depart for the Greek islands where they want to deliver aid supplies to migrant camps, Spanish aid groups said Wednesday. But the groups face...

Nearly $1 billion (€884 million) has already poured in from ordinary worshippers and high-powered magnates around the world to restore the fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, after the...

Notre Dame in Paris is not the first great cathedral to suffer a devastating fire, and it probably won't be the last. In a sense, that is good news. A global army of experts and craftspeople can...

Martijn van Halen has every right to be angry at Jan Karbaat. The Dutch fertility doctor lied to his parents and used his own sperm to inseminate Van Halen's mother. But, somehow, the 39-year-old...

Firefighters declared success Tuesday morning in an over 12-hour battle to extinguish an inferno engulfing Paris' iconic Notre Dame cathedral that claimed its spire and roof, but spared its bell...

Libya is on the verge of an all-out war involving a rogues' gallery of militias, many of which are little more than criminal gangs armed with heavy weapons. The country slid into chaos after the...

US presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg likes to describe political opponent and Republican vice-president Mike Pence as a “Pharisee”, angering Jews in the process. The Jewish...

An Italian boy is in intensive care after his heart momentarily stopped beating when he was hit in the chest by a ball while playing with friends in a park. The accident took place in the village...