A strong earthquake that hit a sparsely populated, mountainous area of western China killed at least four people and injured 54 others, including schoolchildren in a stampede, officials said...

Tunisians have lined up at polling stations to vote in their North African country's first free and open presidential election. Today's vote marks the long awaited completion of a rocky...

A woman featured in a reality TV show about a polygamous family is going public about sex abuse she claims she suffered as a child in hopes of changing a culture of secrecy plaguing plural families in...

Police in Australia were questioning a 20-year-old woman whose newborn baby was found Sunday abandoned in a drain near a Sydney freeway. The baby, who is only a few days old, was in a...

Helicopter surveys on Sunday showed more extensive damage than earlier thought from an overnight earthquake in the mountainous central Japan area that hosted the 1998 Winter...

FERGUSON, Missouri - Barricades surround the building where a grand jury has been considering whether to indict the Ferguson police officer who shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown, though the...

Former Portugal Prime Minister Jose Socrates has been detained by police as part of a corruption investigation. Mr Socrates, who led Portugal's centre left government from 2005 to 2011, was...

Suspected members of the Somali militant group al-Shabab have killed at least 28 people in an attack on a bus in northern Kenya, officials say. The bus was travelling to the capital, Nairobi,...

As Bill Cosby's standup tour crumbled with cancellations, the embattled entertainer joked about his usual subjects of family, wives and childhood Friday to a cheering audience that greeted him with a...

TURKEY-US RELATIONS ISTANBUL- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is heading to Turkey, the latest in a parade of U.S. officials trying to push Turkey to step up its role in the international...