Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI is coming home to a new house and a new pope as an unprecedented era begins of a retired pontiff living side-by-side with a reigning one inside the Vatican...

Federal prosecutors have charged 13 people in a sex slave ring they say forced young Mexican women into prostitution in New York and New Jersey.   The authorities say some of the women were...

I grew up in Pakistan throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s, and my parents, like parents everywhere, wanted me to be fit and healthy and to get the best start in life. I was lucky enough to be...

Violent clashes erupted between police and protesters in Istanbul today, as hundreds tried to breach barricades and reach the city’s main square to mark May Day in defiance of a government...

A truce has been reached between three foreign climbers and Nepalese Sherpa guides who were involved in a fistfight on Mount Everest, officials said today. Two of the foreigners, however,...

The U.S. woman whose acquittal in the murder of a British student has been overturned in Italy says in an interview that what happened to her was "surreal but it could have happened to...

    Venezuela's postelection tensions erupted into a brawl between lawmakers Tuesday night that left at least one opposition member badly bruised and...

    A 5-year-old girl has died after being raped in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, an official said Tuesday, in the latest in a series of brutal attacks that have sparked...

Italian Premier Enrico Letta's cross-party government won a final vote of confidence vote in Parliament on Tuesday, giving life to a grand coalition that aims to put aside decades of animosity to...

Retired Pope Benedict XVI is coming home.   The Vatican says the 86-year-old emeritus pontiff will move into his new retirement home in the Vatican gardens Thursday.   Benedict has...