Russian airstrikes launched in Syria during the U.N.'s 70th anniversary gathering of more than 150 world leaders stole the spotlight and highlighted deep divisions on how to end that conflict and...

Germany marks a quarter-century as a reunited nation on Saturday, with two leaders from the formerly communist east heading a country that increasingly asserts itself as Europe's political heavyweight...

Volkswagen's pollution-control chicanery has not just been victimless tinkering, but is likely killing between five and 20 people in the United States annually in recent years, according to an...

The Vatican on Saturday fired a monsignor who came out as gay on the eve of a big meeting of the world's bishops to discuss church outreach to gays, divorcees and more traditional Catholic...

UNITED STATES-RUSSIA WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is vehemently rejecting Russia's military actions in Syria as self-defeating and dismissing the idea that Moscow is strengthening...

More than a hundred migrants tried to get into the Channel Tunnel in France overnight, clashing with staff and police and forcing the suspension of rail services, a spokesman for Eurotunnel said....

The 26-year-old gunman who opened fire on fellow students in his community college English class, killing nine people, was an Army boot camp dropout who studied mass shooters before becoming one...

The medical charity MSF said today that at least three of its staff were killed in the Afghan city of Kunduz after a clinic was hit by an air strike on Saturday.  US forces were carrying out...

The U.N. refugee agency is reporting a "noticeable drop" this week in arrivals of refugees by sea into Greece — as the total figure for the year nears the 400,000 mark. Citing cooler,...

The Vatican says Pope Francis' meeting with Kim Davis "should not be considered a form of support of her position." After days of confusion, the Vatican issued a statement Friday clarifying...