The Syrian army is deploying troops in areas near the ancient town of Palmyra in apparent preparation for a counterattack to retake it from the Islamic State group, an official said. Gov. Talal...

Ireland's gay citizens woke up today in what felt like a nation reborn - some with dreams of wedding plans dancing in their heads. Many weren't rising too early. The Irish gay community's biggest...

Security officials say fighting is raging on in Yemen, with airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition hitting rebel targets in multiple cities, including the capital, while street battles in the city of...

Voters began casting ballots yesterday across much of Spain in local elections that could see two upstart parties end nearly four decades of dominance by the ruling conservative Popular Party and its...

Saudi Arabia has confirmed that Friday's suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque in the east of the country that killed 21 was carried out by an Islamic State militant, backing up an earlier claim by the...

The death toll in China's latest round of flooding has risen to at least 52, including two schoolchildren aboard a bus carrying more than twice its authorized passenger load that plunged into a pond,...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging Southeast Asian nations to deal with the causes behind a growing humanitarian crisis that has forced thousands of Rohingya from Myanmar and Bangladeshi...

Parents have "self-exiled from the education of their children" and must take back their role as their children's educators from the "so-called experts," says Pope Francis. At his May 20 weekly...

Tonight the finals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 take place in Vienna, Austria.  Drag Queen Conchita Wurst won the Eurovision Song Contest last year bringing the event to Austria....

Military action by European Union states to reduce illegal migration across the Mediterranean could expose migrants and asylum seekers to serious risk, asserted Human Rights Watch in a plea for the UN...