Visit your parents. That's an order.   So says China, whose national legislature on Friday amended its law on the elderly to require that adult children visit their...

A statue of Adolf Hitler praying on his knees on display in the former Warsaw Ghetto, the place where so many Jews were killed or sent to their deaths by Hitler's regime, is provoking mixed...

The FBI has re-issued files it kept on Marilyn Monroe, removing dozens of redactions from entries related to surveillance of the actress for ties to suspected communists.   A large section...

    An Italian newspaper has reported the details of the divorce settlement between ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi and his second wife Veronica Lario, saying he must pay her €3...

    A year and a half has passed since the European Commission adopted the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies up to 2020, which calls upon European Union governments...

    It is not often that the president of the United States needs to seek fashion advice.   But when Ronald Reagan was getting ready for a visit to England as a guest of Queen...

    British scientists have called off the hunt for exotic life in an ice-bound Antarctic lake after their mission was hit by a technical hitch.   Researchers with the British...

Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush is in the intensive care unit at a Texas hospital after suffering "a series of setbacks," including a stubborn fever, his spokesman...

Doctors treating former South African leader Nelson Mandela believe he should remain in Johannesburg for now to be close to medical facilities that can provide care to the 94-year-old, the government...

With the passage of a divisive constitution, Egypt's Islamist leadership has secured its tightest grip on power since Hosni Mubarak's ouster nearly two years ago and laid the foundation for...