The NCAA is honoring the former Boston College baseball captain who inspired people around the world to dump buckets of ice water over their heads to raise millions of dollars for Lou Gehrig's Disease...

Offering pointed foreign policy advice to his successor, President Barack Obama expressed hope Thursday that President-elect Donald Trump will stand up to Russia when it deviates from U.S....

The French government is investigating the tax records of about 560 taxpayers based on leaked documents from a Panamian law firm. The budget office of the Finance Ministry said Thursday its...

A British young man has given new meaning to the phrase "high tea" - writing his name into the record books in the process. Simon Berry, 24, from Sheffield, has become a Guinness World...

Kosovo police say they prevented simultaneous attacks by the Islamic State group, including on the Israeli national soccer team that played a World Cup qualifier in neighboring Albania. They said...

A migration organization says that about 340 migrants have died or gone missing in four Mediterranean Sea shipwrecks over the past two-and-a-half days. Flavio Di Giacomo, Italy spokesman for the...

Former Panamanian Government advisor Joseph Stiglitz told the EU Parliamentary Committee looking into Money laundering, tax avoidance and tax evasion (Pana) has suggested that secrecy in tax affairs...

This is the main news as reported by the Associated Press on 16 November...

Oxford dictionary editors have chosen their word of the year: "post-truth," a term sometimes used to describe the current political climate. Oxford Dictionaries said Wednesday that use of the...

The European Union on Wednesday unveiled plans for a new system of security checks on travelers permitted to enter Europe without visas in an effort to crack down on extremists. People from 60...