An amateur hypnotist in the state of Washington is accused of having sex with a woman while she was hypnotised. Kevin Christian Geyer pleaded not guilty in Benton County Superior Court to a...

NOBEL-LITERATURE STOCKHOLM - Patrick Modiano of France, whose work focuses on the Nazi occupation and its effect on his country, has won the Nobel Prize in literature. The Swedish Academy gave...

The U.K. Independence Party has won a seat in the British Parliament for the first time, a significant breakthrough for the Euroskeptic, anti-immigration force. Election officials said early...

The Vatican's top legislator says he favors a radical change in how the Catholic Church handles marriage annulments to speed them up and reduce costs and red tape. Cardinal Francesco...

Estonia on Thursday became the first former Soviet nation to legalize gay partnerships, while Kyrgyzstan - another ex-Soviet republic thousands of kilometers east - considers anti-gay...

Sarah Goldberg, who starred in the television series "7thHeaven" and the film "Jurassic Park III," has died. She was 40. Goldberg died in her sleep of natural causes on Sept. 27 at her family's...

Brittany Maynard will not live to see if her advocacy makes a difference. The 29-year-old woman expects to die no later than Nov. 1. If the brain cancer from which she suffers does not kill her...

Pope Francis' emphasis on a church that is merciful rather than moralizing is having a pronounced effect inside a meeting of bishops on family life, with the bishops emphasizing that the faithful...

NOBEL-CHEMISTRY STOCKHOLM — Americans Eric Betzig and William Moerner and German scientist Stefan Hell won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing methods that let microscopes see finer...

The European Parliament today rejected Alenka Bratusek, Slovenia's candidate for the new EU commission. Members in the industry and environment committees voted overwhelmingly against Bratusek -...