Police say a New York anesthesiologist choked a woman and forced her to swallow a pill that could cause an abortion after she told him she was pregnant. The sheriff's office says deputies...

Greece's prime minister has expressed outrage over the British Museum's loan of one of the Parthenon sculptures to Russia's Hermitage Museum. The loan is the first time in 200 years that any of...

NASA's new Orion spacecraft streaked into orbit Friday on a high-stakes test flight meant to usher in a new era of human exploration leading ultimately to Mars. The unmanned orbital journey began...

Italian news reports say rescue crews have discovered some 17 bodies in the hull of a migrant ship off Libya in the first reported deaths since the European Union took over Mediterranean rescue...

Conjoined twin brothers who share the same the same body and heart were born in Atlanta on Wednesday. Asa and Eli Hamby - who can never be separated - were welcomed into the world at 7.32am via a...

The Vatican's economy czar says the Holy See's finances are in better shape than he thought, revealing that hundreds of millions of euros were kept off the balance sheet and that reforms are...

RUSSIA-RESTIVE-CAUCASUS GROZNY, Russia - Gun battles early Thursday in the capital of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya left 10 police officers and at least nine militants' dead after...

A chimpanzee is not entitled to the rights of a human and does not have to be freed by its owner, a New York appeals court ruled Thursday. The three-judge Appellate Division panel was unanimous...

British police are questioning an Anglican priest, his wife and daughter about a newborn boy's death. The Diocese of Blackburn in northwestern England identified the priest as Rev. Jim...

The next James Bond film has a retro title that evokes the series' past: "SPECTRE" - the dastardly fictional terrorist organization featured in "Dr. No" and other early 007 adventures. Director...