Prosecutors in Sicily detained 10 people on suspicion of smuggling and murder Friday for having allegedly crammed dozens of migrants into the airless hold of a boat where 52 bodies were...

The Vatican says its former ambassador to the Dominican Republic, who has been charged by church prosecutors with sexually abusing children in the Caribbean country, has died of apparent natural...

The number of migrants found dead in a truck abandoned on Austria's main highway to Hungary has risen to 71, the Interior Ministry said Friday. The count reported Friday by Interior...

Greece's new prime minister, a top judge who is the country's first female premier, was to name the members of her caretaker government Friday as the country heads to early elections next month, the...

NEW ORLEANS — Former President George W. Bush returns Friday to New Orleans — the scene of one of his presidency's lowest points — to tout the region's recovery from the nation's...

Vester Flanagan fulfilled a threat to put his conflict with co-workers into "the headlines" when he gunned down two employees of a VirginiaTV station during a live morning broadcast - one of them...

Some 200 people are feared to have died after a boat with migrants bound for Italy sank off the coast of Libya late on Thursday, international media report.  Another 200 were rescued by the...

Greece's president has appointed the head of the country's Supreme Court as prime minister to lead a caretaker government as the country heads to early elections next month. President...

A sinkhole in a northeastern Chinese city swallowed five people in a dramatic scene that was captured on security video and shared widely on Chinese social media. A provincial broadcaster said...

Austrian police say that at least 20 migrants have been found dead in a truck on a highway leading from the Hungarian border. Police said Thursday the bodies were discovered a day...