A Polish doctor says she has been in "deep shock" since learning that a 91-year-old woman she pronounced dead woke up in a morgue several hours later. The doctor - identified in the media as...

Archaeologists picking through latrines, sewers, cesspits and trash dumps at Pompeii and Herculaneum have found tantalizing clues to an apparently varied diet there before the eruption of Mount...

British royal officials say Prince William and his wife, Kate, are traveling to the United States next month on a trip that includes visits to the National September 11 Memorial and an NBA basketball...

Italy's dynamo premier works with his sleeves rolled up and often without a tie. And Matteo Renzi, on a mission to revive a moribund economy, is bringing his barnstorming style to a fight against cozy...

The world's tallest and shortest living men met for the first time in London on Thursday as part of an event to mark the 60th anniversary of Guinness World Records.  One stands as tall as a...

COMET-LANDING BERLIN - The European Space Agency on Thursday published the first image taken from the surface of a comet, and said that its Philae lander is still "stable" despite a failure to...

New Jersey inducted the late "Sopranos" star James Gandolfini into its Hall of Fame on Thursday. Six cast members of the hit HBO drama were on hand as Gandolfini, who played mob boss Tony...

A Milan appeals court has reduced the sentences of three former aides to Silvio Berlusconi for their roles in procuring prostitutes for the ex-premier's infamous "bunga bunga"...

Macedonian police are questioning five men suspected of trying to manipulate audience voting for the selection of the country's representative in next year's Eurovision song contest. Police...

One more time, Facebook is trying to simplify its lengthy privacy policy - and make it much shorter - to explain how it targets advertisements to its 1.35 billion users. The world's largest...