The protesters who many feared would wreck Brazil's World Cup party failed to show up. While the national team fell short of claiming the coveted championship, the country at least can say the...

Ignoring international appeals for a cease-fire, Israel widened its range of Gaza bombing targets to civilian institutions with suspected Hamas ties and deployed ground troops inside Gaza for the...

From the library of the University of Copenhagen.   Four parchment sheets dating from 1270 with erotic poems written in Norse, somehow ended up as the mainstay of a bishop's mitre in...

A suburb of the rebel-held Ukrainian city of Donetsk has come under heavy bombardment, a day after the army suffered some of its heaviest losses.   Apartment blocks were hit as shelling...

A United Airlines Boeing 777 made an emergency landing on a World War II unused runway on an atoll in the Hawaii.   The runway is that on Midway Island which is famous for the epic battle...

Former Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh says two of his nephews were among six people killed in an Israeli air strike on his sister’s house in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City...

As rockets continue to rain down on southern Israel, the US Embassy announces it has relocated embassy staff working in Beersheba to the Tel Aviv suburb of Herzliya.   “The Embassy and...

A British actor who appeared in the Harry Potter film series has been found dead in a remote part of California's Death Valley, authorities say.   Mixed martial arts fighter Dave Legeno,...

The prospect of the next European Commission being heavily male-dominated has prompted outgoing female commissioners to draft a letter in response.   The letter, set to be signed by all nine...

A senior Arab league official says Arab foreign ministers will hold an emergency meeting in Cairo on Monday to discuss the continued Israeli offensive in Gaza and measures to urge the international...