Capping exhausting and contentious talks, Iran and world powers sealed a breakthrough agreement Thursday outlining limits on Iran's nuclear program to keep it from being able to produce atomic...

The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 appears to have researched suicide methods and cockpit door security in the days before he crashed the plane into the French Alps, killing everyone aboard,...

The official account of the European Central Bank's last policy meeting show top officials expressing determination to stick with the full 1 trillion euros ($1.1 trillion) of their planned stimulus -...

Pope Francis entered the final busy days of Holy Week by acknowledging the exhaustion that priests like himself can feel, but urging them to keep emotionally close to their flock through life's joys...

Gunmen attacked a college campus in northeast Kenya early Thursday, shooting indiscriminately in dormitories and killing 147 people, police said. The attack bore the...

FRANCE-PLANE CRASH SEYNE-LES-ALPES, France - Lufthansa's chief executive said Wednesday it will take "a long, long time" to understand what led to a deadly crash in the Alps last week - but...

A huge ball of flames engulfed an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, killing four people and sending terrified workers leaping into the sea. State-run oil company Petroleos...

A Russian freezer trawler with an international crew of 132 sank Thursday morning in the Sea of Okhotsk off of the Kamchatka Peninsula and at least 54 crew members were killed, rescue workers...

Islamic State militants have reportedly taken over large parts of a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus on Wednesday, and are fighting with a group inside the camp. This is the deepest incursion...

John Lennon's first wife, Cynthia, has died at her home in Spain, her family said. She was 75. A message on her son Julian's website said she died "following a short but brave battle...