Japan's prime minister said Sunday he was "speechless" after an online video purportedly showed that one of two Japanese hostages of the extremist Islamic State group had been killed, and he...

UNITED STATES-CUBA HAVANA - After a euphoric month that left Americans dreaming of holidays in Havana and Cubans imagining U.S. products at their corner stores, the first real effort at forging a...

Indiscriminate rocket fire slammed into a market, schools, homes and shops Saturday in Ukraine's southeastern city of Mariupol, killing at least 30 people, authorities said. The Ukrainian president...

Japan is attempting to verify the authenticity of a video purporting to announce the execution of a Japanese hostage at the hands of Islamic State. Though the video's authenticity is not yet...

  Greeks head to the polls tomorrow in an election likely to put a far-left government in power in the country most hurt by the economic crisis and the austerity measures linked to its...

A teenager has been killed today in a machete attack outside a Gloucester pub. Police have launched a murder inquiry after the 19-year-old man was one of three men assaulted by a man with a...

Salvage teams have begun an operation to raise the fuselage of AirAsia flight QZ8501, which crashed into the Java Sea last month killing all 162 on board. However, the initial attempt was...

A court in Germany has ruled in favour of a man's right to urinate while standing up after his landlord demanded money for damage to the bathroom floor. The landlord, who was seeking €1,900,...

A cloistered nun has stunned her mother superior and sisters after giving birth to a baby boy after complaining of severe stomach pains. The sister, who belongs to an order in Macerata, in the...

Pope Francis is warning his new cardinals to keep the partying to a minimum - and keep their egos in check - when they are formally elevated at a Vatican ceremony next month. In a letter...