This is the main news as covered by the Associated Press on 18 May...

An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo carrying 66 people disappeared from radar early Thursday morning, the airline said. The plane most likely crashed into the sea, Ihab Raslan, a spokesman for...

Queen Elizabeth II donned an ermine-trimmed robe and diamond-studded crown Wednesday to announce government promises to put Britain at the cutting edge of technology and social progress in the...

A police sergeant looking for speeders captured a fireball streaking across the sky on his dashboard camera early Tuesday. The bright flash visible from several states was apparently left by...

HONG KONG-BEIJING OFFICIAL — Hong Kong authorities roll out a massive security operation as they brace for protests during a top Beijing official's visit to the semiautonomous city, where...

Bernie Sanders won Oregon's presidential primary and battled Hillary Clinton to a neck-and-neck outcome in Kentucky on Tuesday, vowing to soldier on as Clinton sought to blunt his momentum ahead of...

A leading international rights group on Wednesday released a report documenting atrocities committed by Libya's Islamic State affiliate in the country's coastal city of Sirte, a stronghold of the...

Italian prosecutors in Sicily are seeking an 18-year prison sentence for a Tunisian man who allegedly captained a smugglers' boat that capsized and sank, sending some 800 migrants to their...

The U.N. human rights office says Ukrainian singer Jamala's Eurovision victory "makes no difference on the ground" for Crimean Tatars, who have faced growing persecution since Russia annexed the Black...

European Union President Donald Tusk is wading into the British debate on EU membership by deriding ex-London Mayor Boris Johnson for comparing the bloc's aims to those of Adolf Hitler. Tusk said...