The morning high-speed train from Brussels pulled into the lonely train station of the provincial French city of Strasbourg. As the doors opened, the chaotic scramble for cabs, cars and buses heralded...

A Tunisian opposition leader critical of the Islamist-led government and violence by radical Muslims was shot to death Wednesday, according to the government. The killing is likely to heighten...

    The end is near for the shoe, wheelbarrow or iron in the classic Monopoly game as fans vote Tuesday in the final hours of a contest to determine which token to eliminate and which...

    A long overdue book has finally been returned to the New York Public Library — 55 years late.   The Daily News says the biography of a 16th-century priest called...

    German police have recovered a cookie sculpture that may have been stolen by someone impersonating the Cookie Monster.   Spokeswoman Jacobe Heers says the 20-kilogram (44...

The plaintive meows haunt the people of Minsk in the dead of night.   They come, activists say, from hundreds of stray cats who find themselves locked in basements by Belarus authorities...

The lives of the world’s poorest people have improved more rapidly in the last 15 years than ever before, yet I am optimistic that we will do even better in the next 15 years. After all, human...

    Shakira is sharing the first public photograph of her recently born baby, with father Gerard Pique planting a kiss on his infant son's cheek.   The 36-year-old...

    He wore the English crown, but he ended up defeated, humiliated and reviled.   Now things are looking up for King Richard III. Scientists announced Monday that they had...

    President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he's ready to be the first Iranian astronaut sent into space as part of Iran's goal of manned space flight.   Ahmadinejad says...