Separatist forces deployed more arms and manpower Wednesday to an emerging flashpoint in eastern Ukraine, undermining hopes for a new peace initiative taking shape. Responding to the...

The leader of a German organization against the perceived "Islamization" of Europe stepped down Wednesday after online posts surfaced in which he used derogatory language to refer to refugees and...

Women are much more likely to believe in God and in life after death than men, researchers have found. Two-thirds of women have faith compared to fewer than half of men. Sixty per cent of women...

Pope Francis is praising big families after saying Catholics don't have to breed "like rabbits." He says big families are a gift and don't cause poverty in the developing world, and that the...

Japan is expending maximum efforts as it races against time to free two hostages the Islamic State group is threatening to kill within 72 hours, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Wednesday, vowing never...

French prosecutors say four men are the first to be charged in connection with three days of terror in the Paris region that left 20 people dead, including three gunmen. Paris Prosecutor Francois...

TURKEY-CORRUPTION ISTANBUL - In what could be the final chapter of a graft investigation that once seemed to threaten the inner circle of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's parliament is...

A man shot and fatally wounded a doctor inside a leading Boston hospital Tuesday before killing himself. Authorities said Stephen Pasceri, 55, entered Brigham and Women's Hospital sometime before...

A group of tourists who ran up the "Rocky" steps in Philadelphia got a knockout photo at the top - a selfie with Rocky himself. Peter Rowe said he and two friends had just finished...

President Barack Obama, undaunted by the new Republican majority in Congress, issued a sweeping challenge Tuesday night to do more for the poor and middle class and to end the nasty partisan...