A British judge is opening an inquiry into the death of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian intelligence agent who died from radioactive poisoning in London in 2006. Litvinenko, who had become...

Streets across the Northeast were nearly empty early Tuesday after cities from Boston to New York and Philadelphia shut down amid a monster storm expected to unload up to 3 feet (90 centimeters) of...

Facebook is suffering a widespread outage Tuesday affecting users in the United States, Asia and Australia. The social media giant's Instagram service is also inaccessible. Instagram said on...

GREECE-ELECTION ATHENS, Greece - Greece's Syriza party gains the key backing needed to form a government, creating a surprise alliance with a small right-wing party that signals possible...

A Japanese envoy in Jordan expressed hope that both a Japanese hostage and a Jordanian pilot held by Islamic militants will return home "with a smile on their faces," as criticisms mounted Tuesday...

A Greek F-16 fighter jet crashed into other aircraft on the ground during NATO training in southeastern Spain Monday, killing at least 10 people, Spain's Defense Ministry said. Another 13 people...

Kurdish fighters backed by intense U.S.-led airstrikes pushed theIslamic State group almost entirely out of the Syrian town of Kobani on Monday, marking a major loss for extremists whose hopes...

The U.S. Secret Service says a small drone crashed overnight at the White House complex while the president was in India. An investigation is underway to determine its origin and identify...

The voice of Auschwitz survivors praying for their murdered loved ones reverberated Monday amid the barracks and barbed wire of the former Nazi death camp, with one survivor crying out in a...

Male domination in the leadership of the Church of England ended Monday, as the 500-year-old institution consecrated its first female bishop. The Rev. Libby Lane became the eighth Bishop of...