A woman who survived her mother’s late-term saline-infusion abortion attempt in the 1970s testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee in the USA, asking: “If abortion is about...

PRESIDENTIAL RACE-REPUBLICANS ST. LOUIS — A growing divide has emerged in the Republican Party's unruly presidential contest, as the race bid farewell to a once-powerful contender. On one...

CUBA-POPE HAVANA — Cuba announces that it is releasing 3,522 prisoners ahead of next week's visit by Pope Francis, the third time Cuba has granted inmates freedom before a papal...

Rescue workers searched for more than 20 missing people in a flooded city near Tokyo on Friday, as the sun came out a day after a raging river washed away houses and forced people to...

Five family members, including three children, were found dead in their lakeside home Thursday in what police said appeared to be a murder-suicide. Police in an upscale suburb of Minneapolis went...

CONGRESS-IRAN-NUCLEAR WASHINGTON — The hard-fought nuclear accord with Iran survived the U.S. Senate on Thursday, as Democrats overcame ferocious Republican opposition and delivered...

Four foreign men and one woman are being arraigned in court today in connection with the recent spate of thefts in Sliema, Police Commissioner Michael Cassar said this morning. ...

Thousands of people hoping for asylum in western Europe are trekking to Vienna from Austria's main border crossing point with Hungary, after rail traffic was suspended due to overcrowding. The...

Bells are tolling as New York City observes a moment of silence to observe the time the first plane struck the north tower of the World Trade Center 14 years ago. Families of...

At least 107 people have been killed after a crane collapsed on to the Grand Mosque in the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca, the country's Civil Defence Authority has said. Some 238 people were wounded,...