Pope Francis is insisting that paedophiles who abuse children be severely punished. Speaking to faithful in St. Peter's Square Sunday, he greeted an Italian organization dedicated to fighting...

 Palestinian leaders are blasting the Eurovision Song Contest for preventing their flag from being flown during the event this month. Palestinian official Saeb Erekat voiced his dismay in a...

A car bomb struck the entrance of a Turkish police station Sunday in the southern city of Gaziantep, killing a policeman and injuring 13 other people, an official said. Gov. Ali Yerlikaya of...

The Brussels Airport is reopening its departure hall for the first time since deadly Islamic extremist attacks on March 22. The airport had already resumed some flights but passengers had been...

The main news covered by the Associated Press on 30 April....

Armed with shovels and sacks of cold asphalt, Rome's residents fill potholes. Defying rats, they yank weeds and bag trash along the Tiber's banks and in urban parks. Tired of waiting years for the...

KOREAS-TENSION — The American-led U.N. command has dismissed as unsubstantiated accusations from North Korea that U.S. troops at a border village tried to provoke its frontline troops with...

A judge on Friday sentenced a Colorado woman to 100 years in prison for cutting a nearly 8-month-old fetus from a stranger's womb. A jury convicted Dynel Lane, 36, in February of attempting to...

Hundreds of rowdy protesters broke through barricades and threw eggs at police Friday outside a hotel where Donald Trump addressed the state's Republican convention. Several Trump supporters said they...

Panama's government established a committee of independent experts Friday to make recommendations on cleaning up the country's financial system, after leaks of documents from a Panamanian law firm...