About 100 people chanting "Rape is not a joke!" and "No means no!" protested outside a theater in Denver before comedian Bill Cosby took the stage on Saturday, but his first of two performances of the...

Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos filled Manila's main park for Pope Francis' final Mass on Sunday, braving a steady rain to hear the pontiff's message of hope for the Southeast Asian country's most...

Most schoolchildren never shower after PE lessons, a study suggests. Research carried out by the University of Essex found that two-thirds of girls and more than half of boys at secondary schools...

One of the brothers who launched a deadly attack against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has been buried in an unmarked grave. Said Kouachi was buried secretly late on Friday in the...

A French court has upheld the Paris police chief's order to ban a planned demonstration against radical Islamists in the wake of France's worst terrorism in decades. The Paris administrative...

Pope Francis travelled to the far eastern Philippines today to comfort survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, then cut his own trip short because of another approaching storm. ...

At least two churches have been set on fire in the capital of Niger amid fresh protests against French magazine Charlie Hebdo's cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Today's protests began...

  Eurostar services between Britain and the continent have been suspended after smoke was detected in the Channel Tunnel. The Eurostar Twitter account announced that all trains...

An oil embargo is one tactic the European Union could use to press for a solution to the crisis in Libya, according to a discussion paper drawn up by the EU's diplomatic service. The embargo was...

Responding for the first time to the firestorm that erupted over the lack of diversity in this year's Oscar nominations, film academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs says the all-white acting slate...