An Australian woman won the annual race up the Empire State Building's stairs for the sixth time, a record for the women's event. Suzy Walsham dashed up 1,576 steps to the 86th-floor observatory...

Heavy rains have provoked landslide at the ancient Italian site of Pompeii, partially collapsing a retaining wall and sending rubble into a garden at the house of Severus. Italian officials on...

The monsignor who spearheaded the saint-making process for El Salvador's slain Archbishop Oscar Romero said Wednesday it was Pope Benedict XVI - and not Pope Francis - who removed the final hurdle in...

Greece's prime minister began talks Wednesday with one of his country's main debt supervisors, as the EU awaits a clear signal from the new government on how it intends to repay its massive bailout...

Outrage and condemnation poured across the Middle East on Wednesday as horrified people learned of the video purportedly showing the Islamic State group burn a Jordanian pilot to death. Even in a...

A Taiwanese flight with 58 people aboard went sideways, clipped an elevated roadway and careened into a river Wednesday shortly after takeoff from the island's capital of Taipei, killing at least 12...

LEAVING ISLAMIC STATE TUNIS, Tunisia — The man stands furtively on a street corner, his face masked by a hoodie, his tense eyes scanning the crowd for any hint of Islamic State militants....

Robin Williams' children and wife have gone to court in a fight over the late comedian's estate. In papers filed in December in San Francisco Superior Court, Williams' wife, Susan, says some of...

Poland's Health Minister said that he has cancelled the in-vitro contract with a fertility clinic in northwestern Poland where a woman was implanted with a wrong egg. The blunder apparently made...

A commuter train slammed into a sport utility vehicle stuck on the tracks at a crossing Tuesday evening, killing 6 people, mostly on the train, and injuring at least a dozen others,...