Forty "I do's" — or "Si" in Italian — were pronounced in St. Peter's Basilica Sunday as Pope Francis married 20 couples, with one bride already a...

Prime Minister David Cameron is summoning military and security chiefs for an emergency meeting Sunday in response to the beheading of a British hostage and a threat against another.   The...

Military specialists blew up dikes in central Pakistan to divert swollen rivers and save cities from raging floods that have killed hundreds of people, authorities said Saturday, as...

Ukrainian government troops say they have repelled an attack by pro-Russian rebels on Donetsk airport.   All Saturday morning gunfire was heard from the area, controlled by government forces...

Pope Francis confronts a piece of his own family history on Saturday when he visits a World War I memorial built amid battlefields where his grandfather fought in a fierce Italian offensive against...

A House Democrat wants to suspend British, French and German citizens from visa-free travel to the U.S. because of "large numbers" of Islamic extremists.   Congresswoman Tulsi...

The Rev. Ian Paisley, the divisive Protestant firebrand who devoted his life to thwarting compromise with Catholics in Northern Ireland only to become a pivotal peacemaker in his twilight years,...

In the dead of night, Ukrainian troops and Russian-backed rebel forces on Friday exchanged 67 prisoners who had been captured during fighting in eastern Ukraine, part of a cease-fire deal that has...

Key Arab allies promised Thursday to "do their share" to fight Islamic State militants, but NATO member Turkey refused to join in, signaling the struggle the U.S. faces in trying to get...

The Australian government on Friday elevated it terrorism threat level to the second-highest warning in response to the domestic threat posed by Islamic State movement supporters.   Prime...