EUROPE-ASIA-SUMMIT MILAN - Russian leader Vladimir Putin is mounting a diplomatic blitz on the sidelines of a summit of European and Asian leaders in a bid to escape the worst crisis with the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin's diplomatic blitz on Ukraine got off to a rocky start Thursday when he kept German Chancellor Angela Merkel waiting for a meeting then showed up in the middle of a...

A teenage competition surfer has told how a small shark tried to drag her from her board after biting her ankle on Friday as she surfed off the Australian east coast. Kirra-Belle Olsson, 13, was...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is mounting a diplomatic blitz on the sidelines of a summit of European and Asian leaders in a bid to escape Russia's worst crisis with the West since the Cold...

An advertisement showing a woman's bare breasts has reportedly caused more than 500 accidents in one day in a poorly-thought out PR campaign, British media report. The photograph showing a woman...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel insisted Thursday that there can be no exceptions to European Union rules on national deficit targets, a clear message to France after it backed off promises to bring...

DRONE BRAWL TIRANA, Albania - Serbian officials have accused Albania of what they described was a carefully planned political provocation after a game between the two rival Balkan nations was...

Police briefly scuffled with protesters camped out in Hong Kong's streets early Thursday, but held back from dismantling barricades erected by the activists pushing for greater democracy in the...

An American Airlines flight heading from San Francisco to Dallas was not in danger when several of the passenger cabin's wall panels cracked loose after an air duct failed, according to the...

The new wife of Hollywood star George Clooney, lawyer Amal Clooney, has had talks with Greek PM Antonis Samaras as part of a campaign to return the Parthenon sculptures from Britain. Greece has...