Gay rights groups are cautiously cheering a shift in tone from the Catholic Church toward homosexuals, encouraged that Pope Francis' famous "Who am I to judge?" position has filtered down to...

Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for risking their lives to fight for children's rights. The decision made Malala, a...

North and South Korea traded fire Friday after the North shot at a South Korean propaganda balloon, an official and a news report said. A defense official in Seoul said North Korea fired at South...

An amateur hypnotist in the state of Washington is accused of having sex with a woman while she was hypnotised. Kevin Christian Geyer pleaded not guilty in Benton County Superior Court to a...

NOBEL-LITERATURE STOCKHOLM - Patrick Modiano of France, whose work focuses on the Nazi occupation and its effect on his country, has won the Nobel Prize in literature. The Swedish Academy gave...

The U.K. Independence Party has won a seat in the British Parliament for the first time, a significant breakthrough for the Euroskeptic, anti-immigration force. Election officials said early...

The Vatican's top legislator says he favors a radical change in how the Catholic Church handles marriage annulments to speed them up and reduce costs and red tape. Cardinal Francesco...

Estonia on Thursday became the first former Soviet nation to legalize gay partnerships, while Kyrgyzstan - another ex-Soviet republic thousands of kilometers east - considers anti-gay...

Sarah Goldberg, who starred in the television series "7thHeaven" and the film "Jurassic Park III," has died. She was 40. Goldberg died in her sleep of natural causes on Sept. 27 at her family's...

Brittany Maynard will not live to see if her advocacy makes a difference. The 29-year-old woman expects to die no later than Nov. 1. If the brain cancer from which she suffers does not kill her...