The world's largest saltwater crocodile in captivity died Sunday, sending villagers to tears in a backwater southern Philippine town that shot to international prominence and...

    It's a life of stark contrast: By day, Diana Prado is a supervisor at an insurance company's drably lit call center cramped with blue cubicles. But when night falls, she...

    The Scottie dog has a new nemesis in Monopoly after fans voted in an online contest to add a cat token to the property trading game, replacing the iron, toy maker Hasbro Inc....

    A Cairo court on Saturday ordered the government to block access to the video-sharing website YouTube for 30 days for carrying an anti-Islam film that caused deadly riots across the...

    A storm that forecasters warned could be a blizzard for the history books pounded the New York-to-Boston corridor — home to nearly 25 million people — on Friday,...

Thousands of people joined a rally Friday in support of Slovenia's embattled center-right government, amid mounting political tensions in the small, economically troubled European Union country...

As Indiana Jones might say: Why did it have to be the Year of the Snake?   When the Chinese-speaking world ushers in its new year on Sunday, its 12-year zodiac will turn from the dragon to...

      Ireland has earned a long-sought agreement with the European Central Bank to overhaul repayment of its colossal bank-bailout costs, a deal expected to save the country...

When will the sun come up today? In Russia, it's a matter of fierce debate, and one that may reflect the sinking stature of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.   Medvedev declared Thursday...

Aid workers struggled to reach remote, tsunami-ravaged villages in the Solomon Islands on Thursday, as the death toll rose with more bodies found in wrecked homes and debris in the South Pacific...