An opposition monitoring group says at least 14 people, including two young siblings, have been killed in Syria's largest city, Aleppo, as rebels and government forces trade fire. The...

Pope Francis has told teenagers happiness can't be downloaded like a cellphone app. Francis used the reference to connect to faithful aged 13-16 who are converging on Rome for a Holy Year weekend...

The Ukrainian government says three troops have been killed in the volatile eastern Ukraine over the past 24 hours. Oleksander Motuzyanik from the presidential administration told a briefing...

Residents of the rural southern Ohio community of Piketon are rattled by a rare major crime that took the lives of eight members of a tight-knit family known in the area as hard...

This is the main news coverage given by Associated Press on 23 April...

Back home, President Barack Obama has eight months, a dogfight over the Supreme Court and scores of campaign speeches for a successor ahead of him. But overseas, the president already has begun a...

— Some of Prince's "most beloved" family, friends and musicians celebrated his life in a small, private service on Saturday after his remains had been cremated. His publicist Yvette...

North Korea is ready to halt its nuclear tests if the United States suspends its annual military exercises with South Korea, the North Korean foreign minister told The Associated Press in an interview...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and top European Union officials have inaugurated a child support center in Turkey for Syrian refugees funded by the 28-member bloc. Merkel, EU Council...

Sixteen teenagers have gotten an unexpected opportunity to confess sins to Pope Francis. The pontiff made a surprise appearance late Saturday morning in St. Peter's Square, where thousands...