Less than a week after its longtime president was surprisingly voted out of office, Sri Lanka welcomes Pope Francis on Tuesday, with the island nation's Catholic minority hoping he can help heal the...

Divers retrieved one of the black boxes Monday from the AirAsia plane that plummeted more than two weeks ago into the Java Sea, a major breakthrough in the slow-moving hunt to recover bodies and...

MEXICO-VIOLENCE COLONIAS, Mexico — New clashes between vigilante groups and government forces in Mexico's violent western state of Michoacan call into question the strategy of a federal...

Richard Linklater's 12-years-in-the-making "Boyhood" won top honors at the 72nd annual Golden Globe Awards, while Hollywood rallied against recent threats to the art of satire. "Boyhood" won best...

The shooting of a jogger in a Paris suburb on the same day as the Charlie Hebdo massacre has been linked to the gunman who killed a policewoman and four hostages at a kosher grocery, a...

Anita Ekberg, the Swedish-born actress and sex-symbol of the 1950s and '60s who was immortalized bathing in the Trevi fountain in "La Dolce Vita," has died. She was 83. Ekberg's lawyer Patrizia...

More than three million people including 40 world leaders streamed into the heart of Paris on Sunday for a rally of national unity to honor the 17 victims of three days of terror....

The television series "Mad Men" begins airing its final seven episodes in April and the show's notoriously secretive creator, Matthew Weiner, said he told only star Jon Hamm in advance how it will...

Kalashnikov assault rifles. Plenty of ammunition. Molotov cocktails, a grenade, a death-dealing Skorpion machine pistol and a few handguns. Plus a revolving light that could be placed on a car roof to...

Pope Francis is insisting that his concern for the poor and critique of the global economic system isn't some novel, communist-inspired ideology but rather the original and core "touchstone" of the...