A thriving financial services industry that evolved over the last 30 years in the British Virgin Islands made it one of the most popular places in the world to form a corporation, turning a sleepy...

Brazil's lower house of Congress voted late Sunday to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, delivering a major blow to a long-embattled leader who repeatedly argued that the push against her was a...

This is the main news as covered by the Associated Press on 16 April...

Friends and foes of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff called each other "putchists" and "thieves" ahead of Sunday's vote in Congress' lower house on whether to proceed with her impeachment, as...

A California woman died after a car driven by her mother ran over her while they were fighting, police said Saturday. Kimberly Wilson, 55, and her daughter, 34-year-old Brandy Wilson, were in a...

A powerful, 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook Ecuador's central coast on Saturday, killing at least 233 people and spreading panic hundreds of kilometers (miles) away as it collapsed homes and buckled a...

During a provocative and emotional visit to Greece Saturday, Pope Francis implored Europe to respond to the migrant crisis on its shores "in a way that is worthy of our common humanity." The pope...

A 76-year-old man who a prosecutor says was wrongly convicted in the abduction and killing of a 7-year-old Illinois schoolgirl in 1957 will be released from prison, a judge ordered Friday. In...

Britain's European Union referendum campaign has officially begun — though Britons could be forgiven for thinking it has been going on for months. Friday marked the start of the official...