NORTH KOREA-FREED DETAINEES JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Washington - Two Americans released from captivity in North Korea return to the United States after their departure is secured through a...

Queen Elizabeth II honored fallen soldiers from Britain and the Commonwealth Sunday in a dignified ceremony at the heart of central London. The 88-year-old monarch placed a poppy-laden wreath at...

Spain's northeastern region of Catalonia opened polling stations on Sunday to hold an informal vote on independence that the central government has called illegal. The regional Catalan government...

Pope Francis has excommunicated a pedophile Argentine priest, a move applauded by advocates for victims of clerical abuse. Jose Mercau was sentenced to 14 years in prison in 2011 after admitting...

UNITED STATES-IRAQ WASHINGTON - Congress members returning to Capitol Hill next week will face a debate over President Barack Obama's new $5.6 billion plan to broadly expand the U.S. mission in...

A dying pensioner has been granted her last wish by having her beloved horse visit her in hospital. Sheila Marsh, 77, died hours after saying goodbye to Bronwen on Monday at the Royal Albert...

A council which destroyed a mural by Banksy was branded "moronic", "useless" and "cretinous", it has emerged. A stencil showing a group of pigeons holding anti-immigration banners towards an...

An organization that opposes plans by the northeastern region of Catalonia to hold an informal independence poll has held protests in several cities across Spain. Several hundred people in Madrid...

Some special operations service members and veterans are unhappy that one of their own has taken credit publicly for killing Osama bin Laden. Others say they have gotten used to the idea that their...

GERMANY-BERLIN WALL REMEMBERED BERLIN - It's been nearly 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, but Harald Jaeger has no trouble remembering exactly where he was when the first border...