More than 400 migrants were reported missing and nearly 10,000 more have been rescued in the Mediterranean over the last four days, highlighting the scope of the challenge facing the...

Fleeing poverty, war or other violence in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, migrants have died by the thousands in the Mediterranean over the years while trying to reach Europe. The...

The feared drowning of 400 migrants in a shipwreck this week in the Mediterranean Sea - one of the deadliest such tragedies in the last decade - raised alarms Wednesday amid an unprecedented...

FINLAND-NOKIA-ALCATEL-LUCENT HELSINKI — Nokia has agreed to buy the ailing French telecom company Alcatel-Lucent through a public exchange of shares in France and the United States, in a...

Police arrested a man who steered his tiny aircraft onto the lawn of the U.S. Capitol, which houses Congress, after flying through restricted airspace around the National Mall Wednesday. The...

Adding to angry comments about the Pope Francis' description of the Ottoman-era killing of Armenians as genocide, Turkey's prime minister said Wednesday that the pontiff has joined "an evil front"...

An Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jewish news website has cut Kim Kardashian — one of the world's most photographed women — from a photo taken of her in Jerusalem this week. The original...

The issue of holding bishops accountable for failing to protect children from sexual deviants arrived squarely on Pope Francis' agenda Wednesday as his point-man on sex abuse raised the case of a...

Official figures show that Greece fell well short of its budget deficit reduction targets last year, a development that's likely to add pressure on the Greek government during tortuous talks with...