Pope Francis is being treated to a cake, cards and a tango demonstration for his 78th birthday — and 800 kilograms of chicken meat for the poor....

Motorists in Britain could be paying less than £1 (€1.26) a litre for petrol in the New Year as oil continues to plummet, the Royal Automobile Club predicted today. In Malta, the price of...

Pakistanis mourned as mass funerals got underway Wednesday for 142 people, most of them children, killed the day before in a massacre by the Taliban at a military-run school in the country's troubled...

Robin Williams' suicide seared into the world's collective mindset more than anything else this year, based on what people were searching for on Google. The reaction to Williams' death in August...

A gunman responsible for a deadly siege in a Sydney cafe was once on the national security agency's watch list — but was dropped off it years ago for reasons that remain unclear, Australia's...

Los Angeles prosecutors on Tuesday declined to file any charges against Bill Cosby after a woman recently claimed the comedian molested her around 1974. The rejection of a child sexual...

Sunrise presenter Natalie Barr broke down live on air while revealing her personal connection to the death of a Sydney siege hostage. The Channel Seven personality was overcome with emotion as...

A woman convicted of downloading child pornography to frame her estranged husband must spend six months to two years in jail. The Indiana Gazette reports Meri Jane Woods, 43, was sentenced by an...

The manager of a Sydney cafe where a 16-hour siege ended in a hail of bullets early Tuesday was lauded for sacrificing his life by grabbing the gunman's shotgun, an act that reportedly helped bring...

The Vatican went out of its way Tuesday to mend fences with American religious sisters, thanking them for their selfless work caring for the poor and promising to value their "feminine genius" more...