UNITED STATES-IRAQ WASHINGTON - Congress members returning to Capitol Hill next week will face a debate over President Barack Obama's new $5.6 billion plan to broadly expand the U.S. mission in...

A dying pensioner has been granted her last wish by having her beloved horse visit her in hospital. Sheila Marsh, 77, died hours after saying goodbye to Bronwen on Monday at the Royal Albert...

A council which destroyed a mural by Banksy was branded "moronic", "useless" and "cretinous", it has emerged. A stencil showing a group of pigeons holding anti-immigration banners towards an...

An organization that opposes plans by the northeastern region of Catalonia to hold an informal independence poll has held protests in several cities across Spain. Several hundred people in Madrid...

Some special operations service members and veterans are unhappy that one of their own has taken credit publicly for killing Osama bin Laden. Others say they have gotten used to the idea that their...

GERMANY-BERLIN WALL REMEMBERED BERLIN - It's been nearly 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, but Harald Jaeger has no trouble remembering exactly where he was when the first border...

Nearly 50 countries are co-sponsoring a U.N. resolution that condemns attacks against journalists and the failure to punish those responsible for killing, torturing, kidnapping and arbitrarily...

Britain claimed victory on Friday in its standoff with the European Union over a 2.1 billion euro ($2.7 billion) budget contribution, saying it was able to delay and reduce payment....

As the biggest-ever outbreak of Ebola continues to ravage West Africa, here are a few key numbers to get a handle on the epidemic: 13,042 and 4,818: According to an update this week from the...

Latvia's Foreign Minister has announced on Twitter that he's gay, becoming the first openly homosexual Cabinet member in the Baltic country. Edgars Rinkevics late Thursday wrote a tweet in...