The European Central Bank on Thursday launched its most aggressive effort to date to revive the region's ailing economy announcing a 19-month program to buy 1.1 trillion euros in government and private bonds starting in March....

The Sun has published a picture of a topless woman on Page Three today and mocked media outlets that said the long-running feature had been dropped, the BBC reports. On Tuesday, the Sun's sister...

Helen Heaphy's number came up at the bingo hall. The prize was a trip to court. The 50-year-old grandmother pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts of possessing cocaine for sale or supply after...

The mother of a young woman whose battle with brain cancer drew widespread attention to her desire to legally end her life with prescribed drugs in California appeared Wednesday in the state Capitol...

EUROPE-TERROR PARIS - France announces sweeping new measures to counter homegrown terrorism Wednesday, including giving security forces better weapons and protection, going on an intelligence...

Japan said Thursday it was considering all possible ways to gain the release of two hostages held by the Islamic State group, as two people with contacts there offered to try to...

Separatist forces deployed more arms and manpower Wednesday to an emerging flashpoint in eastern Ukraine, undermining hopes for a new peace initiative taking shape. Responding to the...

The leader of a German organization against the perceived "Islamization" of Europe stepped down Wednesday after online posts surfaced in which he used derogatory language to refer to refugees and...

Women are much more likely to believe in God and in life after death than men, researchers have found. Two-thirds of women have faith compared to fewer than half of men. Sixty per cent of women...

Pope Francis is praising big families after saying Catholics don't have to breed "like rabbits." He says big families are a gift and don't cause poverty in the developing world, and that the...