Roughly one of every six migrants who set out in traffickers' unseaworthy boats from Libya perished at sea last month, U.N. refugee agency officials said on Friday. The period corresponds to...

The executions Friday of a doomsday cult leader and six of his followers closed a chapter on one of Japan's most shocking crimes, the poison gas attack on rush-hour commuters in Tokyo's subway that...

British Prime Minister Theresa May faced resistance and potential rebellion from hard-core Brexit backers in her Conservative government Friday as she gathered her fractious Cabinet to hammer out a...

A Thai navy diver working as part of the effort to rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave died Friday from lack of oxygen, underscoring risks of extracting the team. The...

A protest against U.S. immigration policy forced the evacuation of the Statue of Liberty on the Fourth of July, with a group unfurling a banner from the pedestal and a woman holding police at bay for...

British police are investigating six claims of sexual assault or assault by Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Spacey, three more than previously disclosed. British media reported earlier this...

A 92-year-old US woman is accused of shooting and killing her son, 72, in order to avoid being sent into a care home, the BBC reports. Anna Mae Blessing contemplated her son's intentions to put...

Tina Turner's eldest son has died in an apparent suicide, international media report. He was 59. The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner said that the...

British police have declared a "major incident" after two people were exposed to an unknown substance in a town near where a former Russian spy and his daughter were poisoned with nerve agent. In...

A 10-year-old Southern California boy was starved and tortured for days before his death, sometimes by younger brothers and sisters forced to take part in the beatings, according to prosecutors who...