Vladimir Putin warned European leaders Thursday that unless they help Ukraine settle its enormous gas debt to Russia, their own supplies of Russian natural gas will be threatened.   The...

Pope Francis has met with four women who were forced into prostitution as he denounced human trafficking as a crime against humanity.   Francis left the Vatican on Thursday to attend a...

Suspected domestic terrorists exploded a car bomb outside a Bank of Greece building in the heart of Athens Thursday, causing damage but no injuries in a brazen attack hours before a landmark bond...

A suspected contract killer charged with killing nine people confessed to investigators that he carried out up to 40 slayings in a career spanning decades, a prosecutor said...

A 16-year-old armed with two knives went on a stabbing and slashing spree at a U.S. high school on Wednesday, leaving 20 people injured, including a school police officer who eventually subdued him...

Our fascination with mummies never gets old. Now the British Museum is using the latest technology to unwrap their ancient mysteries.   Scientists at the museum have used CT scans and...

British Culture Secretary Maria Miller, who was in charge of legislation on press regulation and gay marriage, resigned Wednesday after an embarrassing row over her parliamentary expense...

Ukraine's Security Service said Wednesday morning that 56 people held inside an agency's local headquarters in the eastern city of Luhansk occupied by pro-Russian separatists have been allowed...

A ship searching for the missing Malaysian jet has detected two more underwater signals, raising hopes the wreckage of the plane will be spotted soon, the Australian official in charge of the search...

The European Union's top court on Tuesday dealt a blow to law-enforcement agencies' spying on phone and internet records, saying the lives of citizens should not be "the subject of...