A chimpanzee escaped from a zoo in northern Japan, climbed a tall electricity pole and then plunged from the wires into a blanket held by a dozen workers after being hit with a sedative...

A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 struck southern Japan on Thursday, causing some damage but there was no danger of a tsunami. Officials said they were still...

European Union lawmakers on Thursday approved a scheme to share airline passenger information that can be used to track foreign fighters heading to and from conflict areas like Syria and...

Britain's opposition leader, Jeremy Corbyn, says Britain should stay in the European Union, arguing that "a vote to remain in is in the best interests of the people of this country." Corbyn comes...

CHINA-SAME-SEX MARRIAGE — Though it has been dismissed by a court, China's first legal challenge to a law limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples has galvanized many of the hundreds of young...

Argentine President Mauricio Macri has set up a blind trust to handle his financial holdings in response to criticism over his role in two offshore companies that emerged in the "Panama Papers"...

Prosecutors on Wednesday wrapped up their search of the Mossack Fonseca law firm looking for evidence of any illegal activity in the company at the center of a document leak that revealed details of...

A New Jersey judge has ruled that Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz meets the constitutional requirements to be president and may appear on the state's presidential primary ballot. Judge Jeff Masin...

A man who has admitted hijacking a domestic EgyptAir flight and diverting it to Cyprus is claiming political asylum on the island, claiming he is afraid of how he could be treated by Egyptian...

A Maltese couple attended an edition of Rai Uno’s popular evening programme Affari Tuoi last Monday, getting a special mention by presenter Flavio Insinna. At the start of the programme,...