An online message purportedly from the Islamic State group warned Tuesday that a Japanese hostage and Jordanian pilot the extremists hold have less than "24 hours left to live." The message,...

A Greek economist and outspoken bailout critic has been named as finance minister in the country's new left-wing government. The 53-year-old Yanis Varoufakis was named as Prime Minister Alexis...

A British judge is opening an inquiry into the death of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian intelligence agent who died from radioactive poisoning in London in 2006. Litvinenko, who had become...

Streets across the Northeast were nearly empty early Tuesday after cities from Boston to New York and Philadelphia shut down amid a monster storm expected to unload up to 3 feet (90 centimeters) of...

Facebook is suffering a widespread outage Tuesday affecting users in the United States, Asia and Australia. The social media giant's Instagram service is also inaccessible. Instagram said on...

GREECE-ELECTION ATHENS, Greece - Greece's Syriza party gains the key backing needed to form a government, creating a surprise alliance with a small right-wing party that signals possible...

A Japanese envoy in Jordan expressed hope that both a Japanese hostage and a Jordanian pilot held by Islamic militants will return home "with a smile on their faces," as criticisms mounted Tuesday...

A Greek F-16 fighter jet crashed into other aircraft on the ground during NATO training in southeastern Spain Monday, killing at least 10 people, Spain's Defense Ministry said. Another 13 people...

Kurdish fighters backed by intense U.S.-led airstrikes pushed theIslamic State group almost entirely out of the Syrian town of Kobani on Monday, marking a major loss for extremists whose hopes...

The U.S. Secret Service says a small drone crashed overnight at the White House complex while the president was in India. An investigation is underway to determine its origin and identify...