Following a crescendo of terrifying violence, the Ukrainian uprising has had a surprisingly positive outcome. Contrary to all rational expectations, a group of...

A South Korean prosecutor says four more crewmembers from a sunken ferry have been detained on allegations of failing to protect passengers.   Senior prosecutor Ahn Sang-don told reporters...

Four French journalists kidnapped and held for 10 months in Syria returned home on Sunday to joyful families awaiting them at a military airport outside Paris.   The four, Edouard Elias,...

        When politicians around the world tell the story of global warming, they classify it as humanity’s greatest challenge. But they also promise that it is a...

The confirmed death toll from South Korea's ferry disaster rose past 50 on Sunday as divers finally found a way inside the sunken vessel, quickly discovering more than a dozen bodies in what...

        Governments worldwide are increasingly facing a fundamental question: how to deal with the causes of violent – often religiously motivated –...

        Governments worldwide are increasingly facing a fundamental question: how to deal with the causes of violent – often religiously motivated –...

Pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine on Saturday prepared to celebrate Orthodox Easter at barricades outside government offices seized in nearly a dozen cities, despite an international agreement to...

Another Sherpa guide died in Friday's Mount Everest avalanche, bringing the death toll to 13, a Nepalese government official said today.   It is the single deadliest accident on Mount...

A prosecutor says the captain of the South Korean ferry that sank two days ago has been arrested.   Senior prosecutor Yang Jung-jin says 68-year-old Lee Joon-seok and the crew members were...