Tens of thousands of protesters across the U.S. marched - to Congress in the nation's capital, along iconic Fifth Avenue in New York and in front of Boston's Statehouse - to call attention to police...

Losing less than half a stone could dramatically reduce the chance of dying from breast cancer, research suggests. Trials on 2,400 women treated for breast cancer found that death rates a decade...

Angelina Jolie is reluctantly calling in sick for "Unbroken" promotional duty. Universal Pictures said Friday that Jolie is suffering from "a mild bout of chicken pox" that will keep her from...

  Pope Francis will not meet the exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama because of the "delicate situation" with China, the Vatican says. The Dalai Lama, who is visiting Rome, had...

Passengers are facing widespread flight disruption after a computer failure at the UK's air traffic control centre. Nats confirmed a "technical problem" at its Swanwick control centre in...

France's president wants to allow doctors to keep terminally ill patients sedated until death comes, amid a national debate about whether to legalize euthanasia. Francois Hollande stopped short...

Unknown attackers fired dozens of bullets at the facade of the Israeli embassy in Athens without causing any injury in a pre-dawn, drive-by attack Friday on one of the Greek capital's best-guarded...

Thousands of union workers staging a general strike are marching through more than 50 Italian cities to protest government reforms that they say erode workers' rights. The general strike,...

This is the comical moment a baby boy gets into a spin as he encounters twins for the first time. A home video shot by an unidentified family in America shows little Landon sat in-between his...

Angelina Jolie's new movie "Unbroken" has not been released in Japan yet, but it has already struck a nerve in a country still fighting over its wartime past. And the buzz on social networks and...