A video purported to be by Somalia's al-Qaida-linked rebel group al-Shabab urged Muslims to attack shopping malls in the U.S., Canada, Britain and other Western countries. U.S. authorities...

"Birdman" captured Hollywood's top honor at the Academy Awards on Sunday, where the jazzy, surreal comedy about an actor fleeing his superhero past won best picture at a ceremony punctuated by...

Pope Francis is getting away from the Vatican for a few days and taking his advisers along, to work, as he put it, on fixing the " many defects we all have." Francis told tens of thousands of...

Turkish soldiers launched an overnight raid into neighboring Syria, evacuating dozens of besieged troops guarding an Ottoman tomb and moving the crypt Sunday back to Turkey after ceremonially planting...

OBAMA-NETANYAHU WASHINGTON — In what is becoming an increasingly nasty grudge match, the White House is mulling ways to undercut Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's upcoming trip to...

 Ukrainian military and separatist representatives exchanged dozens of prisoners under cover of darkness at a remote frontline location Saturday evening, kicking off a process intended to usher...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has warned of "real difficulties" ahead, as his government faces a Monday deadline to submit a list of reforms to lenders. Under a deal agreed on Friday, the...

The Party of European Socialists (PES) today held the European Council Preparatory meeting in Brussels, where PES leaders, Prime Ministers (including Prime Minister Joseph Muscat), Head of...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel this morning had a 40-minute audience with Pope Francis in the Vatican. During the exchange of gifts, Merkel gave the Pope a Bach CD and a donation for refugee...

Greece has stepped back from the prospect of a disorderly eurozone exit after reaching a last-ditch deal to resolve the impasse over its €240bn bailout. The outline agreement between Athens...