British newcomer Sam Smith and Beyonce — the most nominated female in Grammy history — are the current leaders at the Grammy Awards with five each. Smith and Beyonce will likely earn...

Pope Francis urged the Catholic Church's top theologians on Friday to listen to what ordinary Catholics have to say and pay attention to the "signs of the times," rather than just making...

British politician Nigel Farage on Friday defended a hotel that insisted a breast-feeding mother cover up, suggesting women might "sit in the corner" while they feed their babies. Farage, leader...

Thousands of Holocaust survivors and family members in the United States and elsewhere will be entitled to compensation from a $60 million French-U.S. fund announced Friday, as reparations to those...

Police say a New York anesthesiologist choked a woman and forced her to swallow a pill that could cause an abortion after she told him she was pregnant. The sheriff's office says deputies...

Greece's prime minister has expressed outrage over the British Museum's loan of one of the Parthenon sculptures to Russia's Hermitage Museum. The loan is the first time in 200 years that any of...

NASA's new Orion spacecraft streaked into orbit Friday on a high-stakes test flight meant to usher in a new era of human exploration leading ultimately to Mars. The unmanned orbital journey began...

Italian news reports say rescue crews have discovered some 17 bodies in the hull of a migrant ship off Libya in the first reported deaths since the European Union took over Mediterranean rescue...

Conjoined twin brothers who share the same the same body and heart were born in Atlanta on Wednesday. Asa and Eli Hamby - who can never be separated - were welcomed into the world at 7.32am via a...

The Vatican's economy czar says the Holy See's finances are in better shape than he thought, revealing that hundreds of millions of euros were kept off the balance sheet and that reforms are...