A newly sworn-in police officer on her first shift with her Virginia department was shot and killed Saturday and two of her colleagues were wounded in a confrontation stemming from a call about an...

One of the highest-ranking Vatican officials is being compelled to testify in public starting Sunday about clerical sex abuse, an unusual demonstration of holding even the most senior Catholic bishops...

Iraqi and Syrian migrants and asylum-seekers are protesting peacefully on the Greek side of the Greek-Macedonian border since early Saturday, demanding admission into Macedonia. Macedonia has...

PRESIDENTIAL RACE ORANGEBURG, South Carolina — Hillary Clinton has had an up-and-down start to the 2016 presidential contests, but a sizable victory over Bernie Sanders in South Carolina on...

The rift over how to handle Europe's immigration crisis ripped wide open Friday. As nations along the Balkans migrant route took more unilateral actions to shut down their borders, diplomats from EU...

A cease-fire brokered by the United States and Russia went into effect across Syria on Saturday, marking the biggest international push to reduce violence in the country's devastating...

Gianni Infantino pulled off a stunning victory Friday to take over as FIFA president....

The family of a Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike for a record 94 days says he's ending his fast and will be released in three months' time. Fayha, the wife of Mohammed al-Qeq, said Friday he...

Greece's government has ordered authorities on islands facing the coast of Turkey to reduce the number of migrants allowed to travel by ferry to the mainland so that more temporary shelters can be set...

A rat found scuttling around the cabin forced a Chinese airliner to return to an airport shortly after takeoff on Friday morning. The rodent was found shortly after the Loong Air flight left the...