People have a right to be ignorant. Just as we can choose to damage our health by overeating, smoking cigarettes, and neglecting to take prescribed medications, we can also choose to remain uninformed...

Hawaii officials plan to spend the next two years studying tiger shark movements around Maui amid what they call an unprecedented spike in overall shark attacks since the start of...

An intruder managed to break into German Chancellor Angela Merkel's jet at Cologne Airport for several hours last month, playing around with buttons in the cockpit, activating the escape...

Egypt's military-backed authorities arrested the supreme leader of the country's Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday, dealing a serious blow to the Islamist group at a time when it is...

Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge have bypassed professional photographers and chosen family snapshots for the first official images of their new son, Prince George.   Royal...

The ruins of this ancient complex sit on dunes by the sea, a world away from Gaza City's noise and bustle. Up in the sky, birds compete for space with children's kites flying from a nearby...

Rescuers pulled more than 100 suspected asylum seekers to safety on Tuesday after their boat sank in the Indian Ocean.   The boat sank about 220 kilometers (140 miles) north of Christmas...

Although many European governments have announced expenditure cuts and tax hikes, their debt/GDP ratios continue to deteriorate. So, if the purpose of austerity was to reduce debt levels, its critics...

Heavy rains brought by a typhoon triggered landslides in southernChina that buried homes and vehicles and killed at least 15 people, as the number of dead or missing from recent flooding in the...

His newborn son is "a little bit of a rascal" and car seats can daunt any dad, Britain's Prince William says.   The second in line to the British throne has described...