A BBC report this week highlighted the reasons why people fart more on an airplane than at ground level. It speaks of efforts by carriers to avoid providing food that cause the body to produce...

The newly elected president of Tunisia faces deep-seated economic problems as he takes power in the country that blazed the trail in the Arab Spring. While much of the election campaign revolved...

Germany's president on Wednesday praised his compatriots' willingness to take in refugees and said he is glad that most people don't want to "seal Germany off," a message that comes as growing...

Shinzo Abe was re-elected by Japan's parliament on Wednesday to serve another term as prime minister after winning a renewed mandate for his "Abenomics" strategies that helped revive the world's...

At least 60 journalists around the world were killed in 2014 while on the job or because of their work, and 44 percent of them were targeted for murder, the Committee to Protect Journalists...

It was a spectacular scene indeed. Father Christmas “flew” across Lake Geneva in Switzerland on Tuesday night, a day before schedule, some would say, but certainly providing hundreds...

Irish doctors who have been keeping a brain-dead pregnant woman on life support in hope of saving her 17-week-old fetus pleaded in court Tuesday to be permitted to turn off the machines because their...

EU-FRANCE-ATTACKS NANTES, France — There are no ties between two rampaging drivers who injured a total of 23 people in nearly identical attacks, French government officials said Tuesday,...

Two men were arrested as part of an ongoing counterterrorism investigation into a group that officials have accused of plotting to kill a random member of the public in Sydney, police said Wednesday,...

Ukraine's parliament has voted to drop the country's non-aligned status and work towards Nato membership. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the move "counterproductive" and said it...