Pope Francis is urging fathers to be more involved in the lives of their children, warning that many problems adolescents run into can be traced to "absentee fathers" who are physically at home...

Jordan's information minister says his government is ready to swap an Iraqi woman held in Jordan for a Jordanian pilot captured in December by extremists from the Islamic State group. Mohammed...

Greece's new leftist prime minister says his government's top priorities are negotiating with creditors to resolve the country's debt problems and dealing with what he describes as a humanitarian...

No storm selfies, hookups, status updates. With Facebook and Instagram down for nearly an hour overnight, what were legions of users to do? Turn to Twitter, of course. To talk about Facebook. The...

POLAND-AUSCHWITZ-ANNIVERSARY OSWIECIM, Poland — When the Soviet army entered Auschwitz exactly 70 years ago, finding piles of corpses and prisoners close to death, a Russian soldier took a...

The mother of a Japanese hostage held by Islamic State extremists appealed publicly Wednesday to Japan's leader to save her son after his captors issued what they said was a final death...

A Jewish leader stood before 300 survivors of the Nazis' most notorious death camp on Tuesday and asked world leaders to prevent anotherAuschwitz, warning of a rise of anti-Semitism that has made many...

An online message purportedly from the Islamic State group warned Tuesday that a Japanese hostage and Jordanian pilot the extremists hold have less than "24 hours left to live." The message,...

A Greek economist and outspoken bailout critic has been named as finance minister in the country's new left-wing government. The 53-year-old Yanis Varoufakis was named as Prime Minister Alexis...

A British judge is opening an inquiry into the death of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian intelligence agent who died from radioactive poisoning in London in 2006. Litvinenko, who had become...