Today is Monday, October 13, the 286th day of 2014. There are 79 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1775 - The U.S. Navy is founded as the Continental...

World financial leaders are pledging to act boldly and ambitiously to give a weak and uneven global recovery some momentum, but they have often fallen short in the past when trying to follow...

DRUG CARTELS-MONEY LAUNDERING CHULA VISTA, California - For a company booking $12 million in annual sales importing snacks from Mexico, Baja Distributors Inc. was oddly quiet. There were no signs...

Kurdish fighters have been able to halt the advance of the Islamic State extremist group in the Syrian border town of Kobani, where the U.S.-led coalition has been carrying out airstrikes for more...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered thousands of Russian troops near the Ukrainian border to return to their usual bases, according to his spokesman. Dmitry Peskov told Russian news...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon traveled Saturday to Libya to support a reconciliation process between warring factions there, calling on renegade general fighting Islamist militias in its east to...

Kurdish fighters halted a thrust by Daesh militants towards the heart of the battleground Syrian town of Kobani today, after the UN warned thousands of civilians risked massacre. The pre-dawn...

New York's JFK airport has started screening to try to stem the Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 4,000 people. Passengers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea - the worst-hit countries -...

Credit rating agency Standard and Poor's has cut France's credit outlook to 'negative', due to concerns about the country's struggling economic recovery. However, it affirmed France's AA/A-1+...

An Alaska couple who had been told by police that their son had died in a car crash was stunned when they went to inform his girlfriend and their son opened the door. Karen Priest said her...