The death toll from a wooden boat that capsized last week with Indonesian migrant workers off Malaysia's west coast has risen to 61, an official said Monday. Another 20 Indonesians have been...

Dozens of white balloons drifted over Vancouver's harbour to honour the young Syrian boys whose deaths at sea sparked worldwide outrage at the refugee crisis. The boys' aunt, Tima Kurdi,...

The Vatican will shelter two families of refugees who are "fleeing death" from war or hunger, Pope Francis announced Sunday as he called on Catholic parishes, convents and monasteries across Europe to...

Authorities in Cyprus say they have rescued 114 people believed to be refugees fleeing war-torn Syria after their fishing boat issued a distress call some 74 kilometres off the east Mediterranean...

MIGRANTS-CANADA-FAMILY VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Dozens of white balloons drift over Vancouver's harbor to honor the young Syrian boys whose deaths at sea sparked worldwide outrage...

Adal Neguse, an Eritrean immigrant whose brother drowned in a smuggler's boat while trying to reach Italy in 2013, knows all too well what might be in store for the relatives of those dying now in...

An Argentine man kept his troubled wife and autistic son in a filthy cage by day for at least two years, a prosecutor said Saturday. Prosecutor Alejandro Pellegrini said police found the...

At least 24 cadets were reported to have been left unconscious during a huge pillow fight at the prestigious West Point military academy last month. In all, some 30 soldiers were injured, one even...

A jailed Kentucky clerk asserted that marriage licenses issued without her authority Friday to gay couples in Rowan County are void and "not worth the paper they are written on" because she...

Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila says he is ready to open his house for refugees, and they can move in on Jan. 1, 2016. Sipila told Finnish broadcaster YLE Saturday morning that...