SUPREME COURT-EXECUTION DRUG WASHINGTON — A deeply divided Supreme Court upholds the use of a controversial drug in lethal-injection executions, even as two dissenting justices say for the...

Greece has entered the twilight zone. Out of money, cut off by its creditors, its banks shut, the struggling country will vote Sunday on whether to accept painful cutbacks in return for...

A passenger on one of Japan's high-speed bullet trains tried to set himself or herself on fire Tuesday, causing smoke to fill the carriage and forcing the train to stop, Japan's transport ministry...

Anxious Greek pensioners swarmed closed bank branches today in the hope of getting their pensions, while queues formed at ATMs as they gradually began dispensing cash again following the imposition of...

Tunisia's interior minister says multiple arrests have been made in the attack that killed 38 people at a beach resort. Without giving numbers, Interior Minister Mohamed Najem Gharsalli said that...

Syria's official news agency says a mortar round has hit a central Damascus square, wounding three people in the second such attack in the Syrian capital in as many days. It is not uncommon for...

A solar-powered plane took off from Japan early today to attempt a five-day flight over open water to Hawaii, the eighth leg of its bid to fly around the world without fuel. Its long wings...

ESCAPED PRISONERS MALONE, New York — The second of two convicted murderers who staged a brazen escape three weeks ago from a maximum-security prison in northern New York state was shot and...

Hundreds of thousands of people on Sunday packed gaypride events across the U.S. from New York to San Francisco, with overall attendance expected in the millions for what amounted to a...

A small plane crashed into a house Sunday evening, killing three people on board, police said, but residents managed to flee as fire engulfed the home. The Beechcraft BE36 aircraft crashed into...